Emergency Response in Colorado Springs Program
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El Paso County's Emergency Operations Center
3755 Mark Dabling Blvd Colorado Springs, ColoradoDescription
Join us for an afternoon of networking, appetizers, informal tours of El Paso County’s Emergency Operations Center, and the opportunity to hear two women speak on their experiences with emergency response in the Colorado Springs area. Kathleen Krager, Colorado Springs Traffic Engineering Manager, will be speaking on lessons learned from the Waldo Canyon fire and evacuation that were then applied to the Black Forest fire the following year. She will also touch on her general experience being a non-emergency professional working in a disaster. Robin Adair, Community Emergency Preparedness and CERT Program Coordinator for El Paso County Office of Emergency Management, will discuss El Paso County’s emergency management planning and response efforts with a look to the future, as well as their partnership with Colorado Emergency Preparedness Partnership, a non-profit that coordinates private businesses to assist in emergency response.