Politics & Government

Evacuation from Wildfires Was Topic of Agency Workshop in Ramona

Seventeen agencies gathered at the Sheriff's substation to do a 'tabletop exercise.'

A Ramona Evacuation Workshop "tabletop exercise" was held Sept. 19 in the new Sheriff’s Department briefing room, according to a news release from the County Office of Emergency Services on Oct. 19. 

Thirty two people participated representing 17 agencies and groups—Cal Fire, U.S. Forest Service, County Fire Authority, the Sheriff's Department, SDG&E, Cal Trans, California Highway Patrol, American Red Cross, Ramona Municipal Water District, Ramona CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), Ramona West End Fire Safe Council, Committee for a Better Ramona, Ramona Community Planning Group, Ramona Unified School District, County Dept. of Animal Services, County Public Health Services and County Office of Emergency Services. The workshop was not open to the general public or media.

The workshop began with a welcome from Supervisor Dianne Jacob, according to the news release. It focused on community evacuations based on a wildfire scenario. The scenario played out over four hours of interaction among the various agencies that would respond directly to the wildfires as well as those agencies that provide support to those impacted. Throughout the workshop, each agency was able to exercise their policies/ procedures as well as anticipated response from the community, the news release states. 

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