Mayor James Ireton Jr. announced Thursday that the City of Salisbury began hurricane preparedness operations as Earl approaches the Mid-Atlantic on Monday of this week. City officials have been attending Wicomico County Emergency Operations Center meetings this week.
The Director of Public Works, Teresa Gardner has reported the following preparations from her department: Catch basins are being checked for any debris issues; flushing of several key storm drains is complete; preventative maintenance on generators, chain saws and other storm related equipment is complete; review of staffing and job responsibilities is complete; review of standard operating procedures for storm water events at the wastewater and water plants and offsite facilities is complete; preparing of sand bags, fueling all equipment, checking and adjusting dams as required for event is complete; and staff has determined hot spots of tidal flooding in the past that need constant monitoring. A skeleton crew for Public Works will report to work at 4:00 AM as Earl makes landfall. Emergency contact information for Salisbury Public Works is 410-548-3177.
Acting Deputy Fire Chief Bragg with the Salisbury Fire Department is adhering to the following schedule: September 1, Wednesday- Checked saws; fueled extra gas cans on the equipment made sure hand tools are ready to go on all equipment; tested and fueled in-house generators to be sure they are working properly. September 2, Thursday-Staffing an extra Engine with volunteers at all three stations in the city beginning at 1900 hours. Thursday morning begin topping off the fuel tanks in all apparatus at all three stations. September 3, Friday-Staffing an Engine at Station One with volunteers
I hope they do a better job with the hurricane than they did with the snow fall last winter.
ReplyDelete"Acting Deputy Fire Chief Bragg with the Salisbury Fire Department is adhering to the following schedule...."
ReplyDeleteHow does he know? He hasn't been there all yesterday or the entire week for that matter. He must have been "working from home" again. That is pretty common with him and Hoppes.
I wonder if the Mayor, public works director and zoo director started moving all of the animals out of the zoo like Rapp and Jacobs used to do in the past?
ReplyDeleteWe always thought it was a major overkill on their behalf and in many cases animals died from stress from their doing so.
I guess it made them feel important when they did it.
Since when does salisbury fire department have tree cutting saws? I was very clearly told when a tree fell on our garage that salisbury fd did not cut trees nor did they have the saws to do so. The firemen told me their saws were roof cutting saws that would not cut trees. They turned off my power and left.
ReplyDeleteJane, there's nothing in the fire portion of this release that says they are tree cutting saws.
ReplyDeleteIf a tree fell on your garage and there was no person in imminent danger of injury, they did the right thing not to assume liability for what was a private property matter.
Tree cutting saws belong to Public Works for trees that fall on public streets, utilities, etc.
If you are a city taxpayer, you will appreciate that the city does not assume liability for private property matters where lives or animals are not at stake.
I used to work for a PW down south years ago and this is standard.
Jane K., No one said the saws were for cutting trees. It just says "Checked saws;"
ReplyDelete3:44... What were they supposed to do realistically? Plow every single road in the middle of a record snowstorm within a day of two?? just not realistic under any circumstance.
ReplyDeleteRob S