On Feb. 10, Emergency Management Division Director Garrey Martinez and the CU Anschutz University Police Department were recognized by the National Weather Service for their efforts in severe weather preparedness for the CU Anschutz Medical Campus community, as a StormReady® Community Agency.
StormReady® is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s, National Weather Service program that uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types of extreme weather – from tornadoes to winter storms, that improve the local hazardous weather operations in providing emergency managers and communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property through the Mitigation, Response, and Recovery preparedness cycle.
To receive the StormReady® recognition, the community must:
• Establish a 24-hour warning point…
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