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Location: Paducah, KY |
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June 2007 |
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June 19, 2007 |
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7.7
EARTHQUAKE STRIKES THE
NEW MADRID FAULT |
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REGIONAL EARTHQUAKE DRILL |
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UNIMAGINABLE CATASTROPHE |
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All communications are
down...area is cut off from all outside resources for
days - some areas for weeks. Complete loss of
transportation system - all of our bridges are damaged
or destroyed. Roads have buckled. Most brick
buildings have failed. Large chemical spills.
Death toll in the thousands. Many residents
camping out in open areas - fearful to enter buildings
because of hundreds of aftershocks. |
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2007
NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE DRILL |
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WASHINGTON — Officials in the St. Louis area will
wake up June 19 to hear about oil and toxic chemicals
leaking into the Mississippi River from a barge
collision, a broken oil pipeline just north of the city
and four oil spills across the river in Illinois. At
least, that's what simulated federal earthquake response
exercises will be imagining.
The drills are the fruit of two years of planning led
by the Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. About 3,500 officials will take part during the
three-day event.
At the same time, Missouri and three other states
along the New Madrid fault will run earthquake drills of
their own, pretending that a massive 7.7 magnitude quake
— similar in strength to the epic quakes of 1811-12 —
has just struck. The drills will deal with such
potential problems as housing emergencies.
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Glenda, our new director,
Tracie, and myself will be at the Emergency Operations
Center in Paducah responding to the disaster. We
will be in charge of opening shelters and feeding
people. Most of our shelters will have been
destroyed or damaged in the quake. We figure it
will take several days for national to bring in outside
resources. |
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
RESPONDS... |
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7.7 — 'a big one'
In the state exercises, Missouri officials would
prefer not to succeed.
"This is designed, probably, to fail. This is
designed to push the envelope to its outer limits and
try to break our system. We didn't want a low bar to
jump over," said Mark James, director of Missouri's
Department of Public Safety.
State officials will spend half of the three-day
drill addressing response issues that would arise in the
first week after a quake hit — such as setting up supply
lines and assessing the stability of roadways and
bridges.
Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky
will hold drills at the same time.
As part of their drills, Missouri officials also
will practice what they are calling the recovery phase,
simulating the 15th, 30th and 45th days after the quake.
Tasks will include getting schools reopened and
addressing housing needs for the thousands that an
earthquake would likely displace.
The planning has been intensive, but the exercises
won't be too predictable. The state has hired Tetra Tech
Inc., a California-based engineering firm, to design
surprise roadblocks.
For instance, a key planning figure suddenly might
turn up missing. Or, officials might decide to evacuate
people to a new location only to learn that it had been
reduced to rubble.
None of the drills will involve physical evacuations,
as Emerson and Talent had initially recommended.
The drills will involve more than 40 percent of
Missouri's counties and a host of state departments,
ranging from the mental health and higher education
offices to the Highway Patrol.
Still, James said the average person probably won't
notice the activity. But that shouldn't mean it's
insignificant, he said.
"The scenario is a 7.7 — that's a big one," he said.
"If we can put into place everything that we can
conceive with a 7.7, then we're well-positioned to
handle anything."
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Earthquake Damage Reports
http://sons-program.org/SONS/SONS_07.nsf/Hazus?OpenForm
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Press Release
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Date: June 18th, 2007 |
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MAJOR
OIL SPILL EXERCISE PLANNED SPANNING 11 STATES,
INCLUDING PADUCAH
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PADUCAH,
KY -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are
co-sponsoring a full-scale exercise to test the
National Response System as a result of major
oil and hazardous substance releases in the New
Madrid Seismic Zone, as well as separate oil and
hazardous substance releases in the Great Lakes
as a result of a tornado.
"Timely, effective response to emergencies
requires constant practice and preparation. The
SONS exercise provides us with an excellent
opportunity to test our capabilities and those
of other responders before a real disaster
occurs," said Mary Gade, Regional Administrator
for EPA Region 5.
The Spill of National Significance (SONS) oil
spill response exercise will last three days,
span 11 states, and include the participation of
USCG, EPA, National Response Team/Regional
Response Teams (NRTs/RRTs), state and local
agencies and private industry.
The exercise will involve the mobilization and
deployment of response personnel and equipment,
and the establishment of incident command
organizations in response to numerous simulated
spills of gasoline, oil, diesel and other
hazardous materials.
"Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that any major
disaster calls for effective, coordinated
responses across many agencies and their plans.
The lessons we learn during SONS will be
incorporated into the plans and systems that
work in concert to allow the most effective
response possible to a complex real-world
disaster," said Rear Adm. Wayne Justice, the
Coast Guard's Director of Enforcement and
Incident Management, who will be role-playing as
the Commandant during the exercise.
The SONS exercises, mandated by the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990, have established common
goals and improved the oil spill preparedness
and response capabilities of the government and
petroleum industry.
A media tour is slated for Wednesday at 10:30
a.m. at the Executive Inn on One Executive
Blvd. Tour participants will have the
opportunity to view on-water response equipment
from shoreside, and a tour of the Unified
Command.
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Beau and Tracie
working on some solutions for opening
Red Cross Shelters. |
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Kent King and Glenda Adkisson
(our new director at the Red Cross) |
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All the different agencies from
our county...working on solutions. Most of Paducah
was destroyed in the quake. The downtown area is a
wreck. Two major chemical
spills in the downtown area. Also evacuations
across the western part of the county.
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Katherine from Emergency
Management on the left...our new director
in the middle - Glenda - and Tracie Deaton on the far
right. |
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Tracie Deaton from the Red
Cross and Katherine from EM |
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June 20th 2007 |
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HUGE thunderstorm
complex over the Central United States last night and
this morning. Looks like we could have something
similar in this region by Friday or Saturday. |
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Dylan caught some BIG FISH!!!!! |
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