Emergency operations center

We wanted to make sure that we were prepared for that, as did the city.

I just got off the phone with some of the city officials who did partially activate the Emergency Operations Center yesterday afternoon in advance of this wet weather that we were bracing for.

We also know that those shelters that opened across Oahu, those four shelters are still open.

They plan to start shuttering those.

as sunlight hits and we start to get a better picture making sure there's no severe damage but of course if anybody feels unsafe or they want to use those shelters those are still open at this moment and the emergency operations center is still partially activated as city officials keep an eye on things here on oahu but again things look pretty good starting this morning we want to remind you to download the hawaii news now weather app i also want to put up a qr code on your screen if you do see some severe weather some impacts scan that qr code and safely send Take and send those videos to us.

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You know, I want to send things back into the studio now and just talk to Stephen Grace a little bit about, you know, we're grateful that things didn't get bad.

right? You've got a lot of hats.

I have one of the few, probably Emergency Operations Center, that has a live Facebook page and YouTube channel where you can hear the radio in the background, get live radar and injects.

You know, we've had a lot of success with that in a county that doesn't necessarily.

James Spanning is Alabama Weather Network, probably going to change a lot of things.

And that's part of it as well as knowing your role and staying in your lane.

My role was in the EOC, in City Hall, and so when people say, have you seen? No, I haven't.

I have to get those reports from the field and rely on the experts who are out there to direct the EOC activities.

And so you're sitting kind of in this cave.

You know it's bad.

We got, everyone could answer questions.

We got a real idea of what was going on.

I think Cat Country being there in the EOC, they were able to get it broadcast.

um and then what we saw was you know that that system moved through it it did bring some rain to central east central indiana that day but really those next couple of days is when we started to understand the flood risk and the flood emergency we had several counties that were under flood emergencies at various points and so when you've got two almost competing disasters in different parts of the state that can be extremely taxing on resources.

So what we had to do was, you know, we activated the Emergency Operations Center to a higher level.

We brought in people from other agencies.

We brought in other public safety partners just so that we could truly provide the best coordinated response possible for the different events that were happening.

So really cascading impact statewide from these two events and very different events all at the same time.

It was a complicated response.

But when you look at the local responders, those local first response agencies and the emergency management community Everyone knew what to do and how to surge up capacity, how to request assistance from neighboring communities, how to get in touch with the state emergency operations center when they needed something, when they had a mission request.

And all of that happened the way that it was supposed to because of those planning days and those exercise days that we do when the skies are blue.