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From YouTube: Inside Boulder - Emergency Operations Center
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City of Boulder - Inside Boulder's look at the Emergency Operations Center
A
April
marks
the
beginning
of
flood
awareness
and
the
flood
season,
the
city
of
Boulder
and
today
we're
at
the
boulder
Emergency
Operations
Center
to
learn
about
what
does
the
city
in
the
county
do
for
flood
awareness
and
monitoring
and
we're
here
with
Michael
chard
director
of
Emergency
Operations
Center,
to
learn
a
little
bit
more
about
what
the
EOC
does
Michael?
Why
do
we
have
an
EOC
well.
B
The
EOC
really
is
it's
a
it's
a
facility
and
it
houses.
A
group
of
people
called
our
multi-agency
coordination
system
and
those
are
the
folks
that
come
in
here
if
there
is
a
large-scale
emergency
or
disaster,
and
they
perform
all
the
work
that
the
EOC
will
do
during
such
an
event
and
they
come
from
county
employees,
city
employees,
people
from
nonprofits
such
as
Red,
Cross
or
salvation
army,
and
even
some
some
other
other
county
agencies
will
come
in
and
help
us
out
from
different
counties.
If
we
do
have
a
problem.
A
B
Well,
what
will
happen
if
there
is
something
that
impacts
the
community?
Usually
the
communication
centers
in
the
county,
such
as
Boulder
City,
communications
and
Boulder
County
communications
will
receive
calls
from
the
public
or
from
first
responders
out,
and
feel
that
there's
a
problem.
They
will
then
activate
the
EEOC,
which
is
then
the
office
of
emergency
management
will
respond
and
open
the
facility
up
make
notifications
to
the
critical
people
that
need
to
be
here
and
activate
our
system
so
that
we
can
handle
the
communications
that
need
to
be
a
need
to
occur.
B
During
the
incident
we
can
manage
information.
We
can
make
sure
that
we
start
developing
a
common
operating
pictures.
We
call
it
so
that
everyone
responding
gets
an
idea
of
how
big
this
is
the
impact
of
the
community.
So
we
can
make
real
critical
decisions
very
quickly
and
we
can
get
the
resources
coming
in
to
provide
help
to
the
people
that
need
it
most.
So.
B
That's
correct
yeah.
In
there
there
are
separate
facilities,
but
actual
the
interoperability
or
the
interconnectivity
of
the
two
they're
very
seamless
operation,
so
they
can
back
each
other
up
if
one
system
was
affected
by
an
emergency
or,
more
importantly,
they
can
work
together
to
increase
capacity.
So
we
can
better
serve
the
community
with
communications
and
handling
other
calls,
because
a
lot
of
people
realize
the
disaster
hits
one
part
of
the
county
or
the
city
there's
still
a
lot
of
other
calls
that
are
still
going
on.
So
it
puts
a
tremendous
demand
on
the
communication
center.
A
B
We're
the
office
of
emergency
management,
so
there's
a
service
at
a
function.
We
provide
obviously
during
emergency
all
this
gets
activated
and
get
real
busy
handling
the
emergency,
but
we
serve
a
role
of
doing
planning.
Really.
The
emergency
management
is
about
supporting,
facilitating
and
coordinating
the
activities
of
the
planning
efforts
of
city
and
county
agencies,
making
sure
that
their
continuity
of
operation
plans
are
up
to
date.
B
So
if
they
are
impacted
that
we
can
still
maintain
a
sense
of
government
and
community
to
the
public
so
that
they're
able
to
still
get
essential
services,
so
we
helped
kind
of
coordinate
all
that
help
prepare
the
plans
and
we
really
do
a
lot
of
Hazard
Mitigation
and
we
prepare
for
the
event
and
really
we
don't
handle
the
response
too
much
except
out
of
here,
but
we
have
a
big
role
in
helping
the
recovery
process.
The
community
after
the
disaster
emergency
occurs.
B
A
B
The
people
that
come
in
here
this
is
like
I,
said
a
coordination
and
facilitation
centre
really
is
what
the
EOC
provides.
We'll
have
people
that
you
know
the
the
county,
commissioners,
city
manager,
city,
council,
members,
the
police
chief
fire
chief
for
the
sheriff
come
in
and
they're
the
policy
group.
They
set
direction
for
what's
happening
in
the
community
and
they
need
information.
B
So
a
lot
of
these
boards
you
see
around
here
are
all
designed
to
create
that
environment,
where
they're
able
to
get
up-to-date
information,
see
what's
going
on
in
the
media,
to
keep
sort
of
a
tempo
of
where
things
are
heading,
so
they
can
make
decisions,
making
disaster
declarations,
freeing
up
resources
and
helping
allocate
resources
that
are
coming
in
so
they're
being
equally
shared
amongst
the
community.
So.
A
B
We
have
a
in
the
digital
age.
We
have
a
lot
of
ways
of
doing
that.
Obviously
they
can
use
cell
phones.
We
also
have
a
software
package
here
called
web
EOC,
which
is
a
specific
software
package
that
allows
us
to
communicate
in
a
web
environment
and
then,
of
course,
there's
always
the
old-fashioned
telephone
and
face-to-face
conversations
which
a
lot
of
cases
gets
the
most
done.
Okay,.
A
B
They
also,
we
have
a
never
bridge
system
which
allows
people
to
sign
up,
so
they
can
receive
under
computers
or
their
portable
devices,
and
we
also
will
use
activation
systems
such
as
the
sirens
which
you'll
start
hearing
here.
You
may
have
already
heard
in
April,
which
is
the
first
Monday
of
every
month
at
10
and
7,
which
is
designed
to
get
you
to
be
aware.
There's
something
going
on
to
go,
seek
information
and
then,
after
that,
there's
other
ways
we
get
hold
of
you
through
call
centers
that
will
be
established
and
also
through
a
website.
A
Once
there's
an
emergency
situation
in
the
city
or
the
county,
the
public
should
really
tuned
to
local
broadcast
TV
and
radio
stations
for
breaking
news
coronation
correct
and
that
that
would
be
the
best
source
as
well
as
perhaps
having
a
telephone
set
up
here.
But
that's
not
always
the
case.
That's
correct,
okay
and
how
would
someone
make
sure
their
own
family
was
prepared
for
an
emergency?
What
kinds
of
steps
would
we
take
in
advance?
Well,.
B
A
lot
of
people
have
and
they
think
they
pick
up
the
phone.
They
call
911
to
get
the
same
level
of
service
in
an
emergency
or
disaster,
as
they
would
under
normal
conditions,
and
the
system
we
have
in
the
city
and
county
are
designed
to
handle
everyday
emergencies.
You
call
you
get
quick
service,
it's
pretty
fast
under
a
larger
scale,
emergency
or
disaster.
The
system
gets
overloaded
very
quickly,
so
the
911
system
is
going
to
be
obviously
a
little
slower
to
respond.
B
So
preparedness
of
the
public
is
most
important
and
it
takes
time
for
us
to
get
to
you.
There's
programs,
such
as
the
cert
program,
which
the
boulder
office
of
emergency
management,
does
go
ahead
and
provide
training
for
if
neighborhoods
would
like
to
get
training
on
how
to
be
prepared
and
self
sustained
or
an
emergency.
But
really
individual
families
need
to
have
evacuation
plans
where
they
going
to
brawley
to
which
means
we're
going
to
go
meet
if
they
have
to
leave
their
neighborhood.
How
are
they
going
to
connect
with
their
family
members?
B
So
information
is
a
great
way
to
prepare
yourself
first
and
then
decide
what
level
of
preparedness
you
can
afford
and
want
to
achieve
and
then
go
out
and
find
ways
to
do
it,
but
planning
its
have
a
plan.
That's
the
first
step,
and
you
see
you're
holding
our
book
here,
which
I
think
will
give
a
lot
of
useful
information.
So.
A
If
you
need
more
information
on
how
to
prepare
your
family
in
advancement
emergency,
the
emergency
operation
office
has
an
emergency
preparedness
guide
which
is
available
at
the
municipal
building
lobby
at
the
corner
of
broadway
and
canyon,
or
you
can
also
contact
norwich
operation
center
to
get
a
copy
here
and
later
on
this
month.
It
should
be
online,
so
we've
been
at
the
boulder
Emergency
Operations
Center
speaking
with
director
Mike
chard
Mike.
A
Thank
you
for
a
quick
overview
of
what
the
EOC
does
you're
welcome,
Patrick
and
if
you
need
more
information
on
that,
you
can
visit
boulder
OEM
calm
to
find
out
how
this
center
operates
in
this
opposite,
takes
on
a
regular
basis
or
to
get
more
involved
in
preparing
your
family.
So
we
back
with
more
inside
Boulder.
After
this.