Mayor Plays a Role in Preparation for Emergencies In Las Vegas Homes

Las
Vegas homes officials are prepared if a major
tremor brought high structures collapsing to the ground or if a bomb blew up
close the Hoover Dam.

One of the college
campuses in Maryland was holed up by government and business leaders from
southern Nevada last week, managing over a few disaster set-ups, getting
remarks on how to develop their emergency management response.

Federal Emergency
Management Agency hosted a five day rigorous training assembly join in by Seventy-two
people representing groups like the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Metro
Police, Nevada Energy, Boyd gaming and more.

Mayor Carolyn Goodman
speaks at her press conference Thursday morning, “We were in classrooms
and lecture halls with a lot of people with great knowledge of disaster
preparation teaching us … with interactive classes.”

Activities integrated
on training assembly were a mock-terrorist attack that involved bombs going off
at the Hoover Dam, the Strip and Las Vegas homes.
Participants who take part in activity
were broken up into groups and labored on field-preparedness, emergency
communications and recovery after the disaster.

Additional
discussions were also done, for natural disasters like major floods or
earthquakes all through the week.

Goodman speaks, “The
focus was on practicing a coordinated response amongst all the different
agencies from firefighters and police to hospitals and utility companies.”

Emergency management
officer, Carolyn Levering shares, “Although Las Vegas already has an emergency
management plan in place, the training did bring up new ideas to help refine
the plan.”

Levering tells, “One
change will be setting up central locations to house multiple agencies involved
in responding to the crisis to improve communication and coordination.”

She
added, “Overall, as a result of this experience our responders are people
who are … better prepared assist and react in our community to any type of
emergency.”