alleged).
In CA (and BTW, what you said about LA city/county applies throughout the
state), there is widespread agency cooperation, with all parties concerned
focusing on providing the best services.
Where I live, 12 cities share a fire dispatch center (allowing these small-
to medium-sized cities to have facilities and services comparable to large
cities: top-notch dispatchers, CAD, etc.) and although the 12 fire
departments are completely autonomous, they have extensive automatic aid
agreements, and the cities are seldom mentioned on the radio; you'd have to
know who's who to realize, say, that a dispatch of E91, E81, E34, T32, T71,
BC9 involves four different cities.
By contrast, the village I lived in for a few years in Upstate NY didn't get
along all that well with the town it was within, the county's 12 towns had
at least 15 different/incompatible fire radio systems (more serious when you
realize that three of those towns used the county's system, leaving nine
towns to have 14 systems), and currently there's a wrongful death lawsuit
because allegedly a death in a structure fire was caused by the local
department's refusal to call the nearest neighboring department for
political reasons, calling instead two departments that both had to go
through the first neighbor to reach the fire.
Is it any wonder people are still moving away from there and into here?!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewack, Mark A." <Mark.Lewack@opm.gov>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile
Disaster Kit
> East Coast problems are caused by egos and politics. I agree with new
nethboy. LA city/county in spite of past financial, internal, and community
relations issues is far better at dealing with natural disasters and
construction issues.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed Jul 13 08:55:23 2011
> Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile
Disaster Kit
>
>
>
> I think we're going to see here the difference between L.A. and the East
> Coast on this one. As far as we've sunk in the past few decades, IMO we're
> still not as bad as the East.
>
> The DC storm doesn't even compare with this; the publicity on this has
gone
> nationwide (my friends from all over have been emailing me about it).
>
> We see here so far: LAFD redeploying, UCLA Med. Center staff swapping
shifts
> so the people who live on the other side won't have to work that weekend,
> businesses and attractions shutting down, churches cancelling services
> (saying, "Go visit your friends' churches"), local media and various
> agencies publishing lists of what to do/where to go on that weekend.
>
> LA responded extraordinarily well for the 1984 Olympics; we'll see if this
> goes as well.
>
> (I was in NYS during the 1980 Winter Olympics, an utter fiasco and the
> project lost millions. I was in LA for the 1984 Olympics; everything
worked
> smoothly and the project made money.)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lewack, Mark A."
<Mark.Lewack@opm.gov<mailto:Mark.Lewack%40opm.gov>>
> To: "CaliforniaDisasters"
<californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroup
s.com>>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile
> Disaster Kit
>
> Having lived/worked in LA area for 4 years (and having made many trips to
LA
> while living/working in No. Cal and Washington State) , I am quite
familiar
> with I-405's normal traffic pattern (which is not very good, many hours of
a
> normal day). In the DC area we are lucky that while traffic is bad most
> days, it isn't anywhere as bad as I-405, except during periods of
inclement
> weather or during special events.
>
> However, yesterday while attending a Severe Weather Symposium in DC, we
> recounted an event earlier this year that was called "Carmageddon 2011".
It
> was a well forecasted event (a rapidly developing snowstorm) and federal
> employees were given the green light to go home well in advance of the
> incident. Yet many folks either disregarded the early release notice or
> the word never got passed by supervisors and managers.
>
> Let's hope this message gets wide enough dissemination that people are
> allowed to Telework or do alternating work schedules (flex hours), so that
> the traffic on
> I-405 or side streets is not as bad as it is when there are multiple
> accidents on I-405 (which is most days).
>
> Mark A. Lewack
> Emergency Actions Coordinator
> Facilities, Security, and Contracting
> U.S. Office of Personnel Management
> 1900 E Street NW, Room 1300
> Washington, DC 20415
> Office: 202-606-5415
> Cell: 202-345-4640
> From:
californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroups
.com>
>
[mailto:californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<mailto:californiadisasters%40yah
oogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Kim Noyes
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:43 AM
> To: CaliforniaDisasters
> Subject: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile
Disaster
> Kit
>
> Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile Disaster Kit
> By Reva Hicks for KNBC-TV Los Angeles
> | Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 | Updated 3:15 PM PDT
> Are you ready for the Southland's first planned traffic nightmare, the
> closure of the 405 Freeway, aka Carmageddon?
>
> 405 Project Page: Maps, Detours,
>
Tweets<http://www.nbclosangeles.com/traffic/transit/Commuter-Tool-Kit-The-40
> 5-Project-123377363.html>
>
> City streets and canyon routes in the area are expected to be jammed.
>
> "We're such a mobile community in Southern California, we've got to be
> prepared for the unexpected," said Pete Moraga, spokesman for the
Insurance
> Information Network of California.
>
> He's urging drivers to put together a mobile disaster kit.
>
> "It can be as simple or complicated as you want to get," said Moraga.
> "Suppose you get stranded and have to sleep in your car, it would be nice
to
> have a light blanket."
>
> A mobile disaster kit can be just a small backpack, filled with some "must
> haves" for motorists:
>
> * Battery-powered radio
> * Work gloves, in case you have to work on your car
> * Bottled water
> * Food (snacks, especially high-energy bars)
> * First-aid supplies (including Band-Aids)
> * Paper maps
>
> Yes, paper maps. Moraga said "people get caught up in GPS devices. But
they
> need an old-school backup."
>
> "Best two weeks ever driving in Southern California happened during the
1984
> Olympics. People stayed off the freeway," Moraga said.
>
> "It might happen again."
>
> Source:
>
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/traffic/transit/Carmageddon-Mobile-Disaster-Kit
> -125432973.html?__source=Newsletter-Daily
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