The new County Emergency Operations Center

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Had the chance to tour the new EOC today - they were hosting an open house.  A lot of political types were there - County Executive, Bellingham Mayor, Police Sheriff, Fire Chief. There were probably about 300 people there for the event. Ran into a bunch of people I have emailed but never met face to face. A lot of ham radio people there as communications is crucial to disaster mitigation.

Here are some photos:

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Just an unassuming building in some industrial park somewhere...

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The event was opened by Jack Louws (pronounced loss) - County Executive.

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An interesting side-note. All of the furniture and equipment was donated by BP - they own a large refinery here. The desks, laptops and chairs were last used at their operations center for the Deepwater Horizon well disaster of 2010.

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Cake was served.  Mmmmmmmm. Cake!

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Words to live by! This is displayed at the building's entrance.

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Here is a look inside one of the communications trucks. You need to not only communicate from your position, you need to be able to monitor everyone else.

And lastly:

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Some of the other vehicles.  The white trailer with the City of Bellingham logo on it has food and shelter for 50 people. There were a lot of other pods and buckets for quick deployment to any disaster large or small. The resources we have are really wonderful - the people in the City and County government have been prepping for a long time.

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