Fayette County GA Fire / Emergency Storm Ready Designation

Fayette County was recognized for its accomplishment once again for being designated a "Storm Ready" community. The presentation was held as part of the scheduled commission meeting. Making the presentation was Lans Rothfusz, Meteorologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City. In May 2001, Fayette County became one the first six counties in the state to receive the designation of being "Storm Ready". The county is required to re-submit the "Storm Ready" application every four years. To be recognized as "Storm Ready", a community or county must meet criteria established jointly between the NWS and state and local emergency management officials. These criteria include: - Having a local 24-hour warning point and an Emergency Operations Center. - Having multiple ways of receiving NWS warnings. - Being able to monitor local weather/river conditions. - Having multiple ways of alerting the public. - Promoting public readiness through community seminars and presentations. - Having a formal hazardous weather plan. - Having trained weather spotters. - Conducting periodic drills / exercises. - Interacting with their supporting NWS office. The essence of the program is to ensure the entire warning and response system performs properly when severe weather strikes. The "system" is comprised of the NWS who issues the warnings, local emergency management personnel who ensure the warnings get communicated and responds to severe weather damage, and the residents of the community who respond properly to the warnings. When each part of this system performs well, lives and property are saved. "Storm Ready" recognizes those counties in which the system is most likely to perform well. (Yes, we were late getting this up, someone overlooked the "gee, we need to upload" part of making a video :-)

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YouTube | April 20, 2008

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