12 city employees dead in Pomona, damage to city buildings
Assistant to the City Manager Mark Gluba said 12 city employees are reported dead and various city facilities have had extensive damage including Pomona City Hall, which has been red tagged. Various fires have broken out in the city.
City officials have received word that five area hospitals, including Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, are not receiving patients. The city's emergency operations center was activated, Gluba said, and the City Council Chambers is serving as a joint information center with briefings from the city, Pomona Police and the Los Angeles County Fire Department being provide there.
- The Sun and Bulletin newspapers are covering the Great Southern California Shakeout drill as if it were a real-time event. You are reading about simulated disaster events from various local areas and the agencies that cover them. What you have read are practice drills held by fire, police and local hospitals.
City officials have received word that five area hospitals, including Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, are not receiving patients. The city's emergency operations center was activated, Gluba said, and the City Council Chambers is serving as a joint information center with briefings from the city, Pomona Police and the Los Angeles County Fire Department being provide there.
- The Sun and Bulletin newspapers are covering the Great Southern California Shakeout drill as if it were a real-time event. You are reading about simulated disaster events from various local areas and the agencies that cover them. What you have read are practice drills held by fire, police and local hospitals.
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