Emergency Management
Emergency Managment Director has updated the Cass County Emergency Operations plan and works closely with emergency service providers and groups throughout the county and works with state and federal government agencies in numerous capacities.
Personnel
| Dispatcher/Emergency Management | Kerry Swenson | 218-547-1424 |
SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK April 19th-23rd
The Severe Weather Awareness Week is upon us again, this week is dedicated to help us all learn and prepare for upcoming weather hazards, and to help provide information on available resources to minimize the risks associated with severe weather. Thunderstorms, hail, straight line winds and heat waves cause extensive damage in Minnesota every year.
The annual toll from hail alone is about $1 billion nationally. High temperatures can quickly cause heat exhaustion, especially in children and the elderly. Lightning kills and injures more people than any other summer weather threat! 47 lightning fires took place in Minnesota in 2007, damaging homes and other business structures, resulting in damages of about $2.3 million.
On Thursday April 22nd Cass County will be participating in two Tornado drills. The first drill will be statewide at 1:45 p.m. to allow schools, business, hospitals and other health care facilities to practice their emergency plans. The 2nd drill is at 6:55 p.m., which for the first time Cass County will also participate and is being done to allow all of us as families, and also second shift business workers to practice our emergency plans.
During this week the National Weather Service will also be testing Emergency Alert Systems and NOAA all hazards weather radio.
In conjunction with the Severe Weather Awareness Week we will also be offering a Sky Warn Weather Spotters Class at the Walker High School at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21st. This is a class offered to anyone that would like to become a spotter and be an extra pair of eyes to help with what is happening in our area with severe weather and notifying the National Weather service. Again, this class is open to anyone that is interested in the weather.
Here are a couple of weather related websites with a lot of great information and resources please check them out and if you have any questions or you would like to register for the Weather Spotters class please give me a call.
Severe Weather or Resolve To Be Ready!
Upcoming Training
The
Salvation Army Disaster Training, April 8th and April 9th, 2010
Click on photo for more detailed information and registration form.
Kerry Swenson
Cass County Emergency Management
218-547-7437
Other contacts
Minnesota
Division of Emergency Management
Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA)
American Red Cross
Minnesota Department
of Health
Minnesota
DNR-Forestry Division
National Weather Service-Duluth
Minnesota Office of Homeland Security
Central Minnesota EMS Region
UPCOMING EVENTS
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