#emergency procedures

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[kalianos]

If you are LGBT+, You will definitely want to have these systems set up and ready to go for your close friends and any family you trust. Just in case something happens. What I refer to is more gone over at the 50 Minute mark onward but everything in here is useful information.

And happy Shut The Fuck Up Friday!

The best time to be prepared to getting arrested, is before you get arrested

The best time to get a passport is before you need it

The best time to flee the country is not when you have to.

Be prepared.

[taavicleric]

Realising that so many "emergency" procedures aren't about saving lives, but about keeping people who are going to die calm and to make retrieving bodies easier. And suddenly remembering our tornado drills, particularly in high school. For our tornado drills, they would usher us out into the hallways and have us kneel against the walls- arms over our necks. My high school's hallways were covered in glass trophy cases, and I can always remember thinking, "If a tornado ACTUALLY hits this building, we're all going be lacerated by the glass. Why don't they take us to the fucking bomb shelter, or the gym?" (two spaces in the building with no windows that would hold the school population) I've just realised. If the roofs on either of those caved in, there would be casualties, and it would be difficult to find survivors. If the windows blew out of the hallways but the structure remained on those exterior hallways- there would be injuries, but likely fewer casualties and it would be easier to get us all out after. The goal wasn't, "How do we keep everybody safe while it happens?" it was, "How do we make sure we can get everybody out quickly once it's over?" And I bet this is the reason they tell you, in a tornado, try to be in the southwest corner of the basement- it's probably so if the house collapses on top of you, rescuers can start with the SW corner and hope to find you sooner.

[rosabelbelieve]

i know this is an incredibly niche request BUT...

if anyone knows of any databases of uk retail/shopping centre evacuation sirens pls let me know, or if by (some miracle) anyone has been evacuated from debenhams, churchill square in brighton and has a film/audio recording of it

[tereziwheresheshouldbe]

Terezi should be attempting to land a pap.

[blackwestchester]

Mayor Thomas and The Melee at Mount Vernon High School

Mayor Thomas and The Melee at Mount Vernon High School

While details are still sketchy, a melee ensued at Mount Vernon High School, Friday afternoon after an impromptu visit from Mount Vernon Mayor Richard W. Thomas and a rapper by the name of Fatboy SSE, whom Mayor Thomas made Mayor for the day.

Fatboy, Mayor of the Day and Mayor Thomas Desk [Yonker’s Voice]

Arriving in a Bentley, Mayor Thomas, Fatboy and others entered MVHS, headed to the cafeteria…

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. | State says seniors were abandoned during California wildfire

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. | State says seniors were abandoned during California wildfire

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Staff at two senior care centers abandoned residents during an evacuation as wildfires swept through Northern California last October, state officials said Thursday as they moved to revoke licenses from the Santa Rosa facilities and their top administrators. Nobody in either facility died.

A Department of Social Services complaint says more than 20 people would have died when a dementia facility burned to the ground if family members and emergency responders hadn’t evacuated them after all staff left. The investigation says night staff members at Villa Capri were not trained in emergency procedures and had never practiced a fire drill. They could not find keys to a bus that could have sped evacuations.

At least three residents were never evacuated from another facility, Varenna, and workers who found them the next morning lied about it, the investigation found.

Both care centers are managed by Oakmont Management Group. Executives did not respond to requests for comment, but the firm created a website to defend its actions earlier this year. It says employees did not abandon residents and praises their efforts to get people out.

“While our staff was in the process of shuttling our residents to a staging site, emergency authorities at several entry locations refused to let multiple staff members re-enter,” the website says.

Oakmont owns 25 senior centers in California and one in Las Vegas. The company has 15 days to appeal and request a hearing before an administrative law judge, said Michael Weston, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services.

The state’s complaint conveys a chaotic scene as flames swept into Santa Rosa overnight on Oct. 8 and 9. The blaze, known as the Tubbs Fire, ultimately destroyed thousands of homes in Santa Rosa and killed dozens of people, part of a firestorm that left a trail of destruction across Northern California wine country.

At Villa Capri, home to 62 elderly and disabled residents including 25 in the dementia unit, the night supervisor did not know evacuation plans or where to find flashlights and batteries, the report said. One on-duty staff member spent an hour unsuccessfully searching for vehicle keys, according to the complaint.

When the power went out at about 11:30 p.m., disabling electronic locks that keep patients with dementia from leaving, the facility administrator, who was not there, instructed staff to guard the exit doors, preventing them from caring for residents, the state alleges.

But the administrator, Deborah Smith, did not go to the facility, according to the state’s complaint.

Between 3 and 3:30 a.m., the night supervisor left as a passenger in a vehicle taking residents to an evacuation center, followed by the two remaining staff members who evacuated about six residents, according to the complaint.

After staff left, relatives of residents arrived and helped non-mobile residents “who were left stranded on the second floor.” Emergency responders eventually arrived to help.

At Varenna, which houses 228 residents, administrator Nathan Condie directed staff members who had been evacuating residents to return them to their rooms, the complaint alleges.

“Nathan Condie stated that he did not want to cause issues or make trouble for (Oakmont),” the complaint says.

He left with “a small number of residents in his personal car” at about 3:30 a.m., the complaint alleges, followed later by remaining staff members, leaving about 70 residents behind.

The grandson of one resident arrived at 4 a.m. and found his grandfather had left.

“He was besieged by questions about what to do and became aware that there were many residents in the darkened, smoky building who needed help,” the complaint says. He ran door to door to awaken residents, help them into the lobby, and started a list of names as he stayed for three hours to help people evacuate.

Smith and Condie could not be reached for comment. The state is seeking to ban them for life from owning or working in licensed care facilities.

By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press