Emergency Operations Center Tour
We toured the new Butler County Emergency Operations Center at the EOC in Augusta on May 4th.
The following attended: Steve Saner, John Lucas, Larry Hastings, Dennis Gaskill, Sally Gaskill, Bern Meyers, Ron Johnson, Wayne Schlueter, Barb Scheduler, Dwayne Rae, Ted Davis, and Consuella Davis.
The Director of Butler County Emergency Operations Management, Keri Korthals gave the tour.
The building’s safe room itself was impressive! All cinder-block and reinforced with two blast proof windows and sliding steel doors!
It was noted that the room needs a secure entry/exit point for radio coax cables to attach to an outside antenna structure.
Members examined the structure and John, Steve, Ron and Dwayne made recommendations to Keri. John offered his expertise as he is currently installing security systems and cabling as a service.
John noticed there were existing pipes out of the building to the outside Generator Container that might be able to hold coax cables to an external antenna.
