By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles TimesJune 8, 2013, 7:13 p.m. Southern California Edison built San Onofre’s two nuclear reactors in about nine years, but tearing them down will be a technically complex, multibillion-dollar job completed over decades. It is likely that Edison first will mothball the plant, which under federal rules could keep its [...]
Even though some areas of the state are experiencing June gloom, emergency preparedness and health officials are preparing for periods of elevated and extreme heat this summer and fall. They’re reviewing internal procedures, updating cooling center data bases and identifying state fairgrounds and facilities that serve as cooling centers¸ as well as implementing other [...]
By Ann McFeatters As the nation grapples with one costly natural disaster after another, Washington’s politicians systematically have been cutting funds for disaster preparedness. Even as the nation laments the deaths of children in Oklahoma’s tornado alley, where two schools hit in devastated Moore could not afford safe rooms at a per-room cost of [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released their guidance today to emergency managers and citizens on how home owners should prepare for future storms. As demonstrated by the devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, severe weather can strike quickly, leaving families with little or no time to prepare. weather in the form of thunderstorms, hurricanes, [...]
NOTE: COPE Preparedness has been involved with the LACCDR project since it’s inception. In fact the COPE Preparedness Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) conducted in July of 2012 in Spanish in Wilmington, CA was partially funded by a mini grant from the LACCDR project. LOS ANGELES — In response to a directive from President Obama [...]
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