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Police Captain Stan Van Horn, who manages the Support Services Division, said the shakeout would start at 10 a.m. and the Claremont's Emergency Operations Center would be open.
The city of Claremont is working with the Claremont Unified School District, the Claremont Colleges, the Claremont Chapter of the Red Cross, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and local utilities to open the City's Emergency Operations Center and local utilities will open the center with simulation information from the United States Geological Survey.
The training includes practicing communications between different emergency response departments within Claremont and Los Angeles County.
The city of Claremont is working with the Claremont Unified School District, the Claremont Colleges, the Claremont Chapter of the Red Cross, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and local utilities to open the City's Emergency Operations Center and local utilities will open the center with simulation information from the United States Geological Survey.
The training includes practicing communications between different emergency response departments within Claremont and Los Angeles County.
The Claremont Police Department will set up a mobile Incident Command
Center in the field and city departments that include Human Services
and Community Services will set up Department Operating Centers within
their buildings.
Volunteer agencies including the Police Department's Community Patrol, Community Emergency Response Team and Claremont Amateur Radio Disaster Service will train with regular City employees.
Van Horn said the community emergency response team, the Red Cross and emergency equipment including the mobile command center would be at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints at 728 E Baseline Rd.
"The operations area where the rubber hits the road will be working out of that parking lot," Van Horn said.
The shakeout will end at 1 p.m. and a debriefing will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. at City Hall at the emergency operations center, Van Horn said.
For more information, go to Claremont's Web site at http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/ps.communityprograms.cfm?ID=2290.
Volunteer agencies including the Police Department's Community Patrol, Community Emergency Response Team and Claremont Amateur Radio Disaster Service will train with regular City employees.
Van Horn said the community emergency response team, the Red Cross and emergency equipment including the mobile command center would be at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints at 728 E Baseline Rd.
"The operations area where the rubber hits the road will be working out of that parking lot," Van Horn said.
The shakeout will end at 1 p.m. and a debriefing will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. at City Hall at the emergency operations center, Van Horn said.
For more information, go to Claremont's Web site at http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/ps.communityprograms.cfm?ID=2290.
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