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University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 13, 1975
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Civil defense ready for county emergencies
Staff Writer
BY MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
Should any natural or man-made disaster strike the University of Kansas, hundreds of Douglas County emergency preparedness workers quickly would care for students, Chuck Belote, emergency preparedness director, said yesterday.
Emergency preparedness, more commonly known as civil defense, is extensive in the county, Beloit said, and includes firefighting, medical evacuation, Evadora, Bldwin and Leptonum.
The plan combines law enforcement, firefighting forces, civil warning systems, communications networks, medical teams, public information agents, military personnel, school administrators and lawyers to prepare for county safety, he said.
Throughout the county, there are 77 fallout shelters, according to an emergency preparedness report that is to be given to the county commissioners soon.
On campus, there are shelters in U.S. Geological Survey; Space Technology; Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi sororities; Sigma Chi Faternity; Hospitals Hospital; University Law School; JRP, Corbin, Oliver, McColm and GSP residence halls; Carruth-O'Leary; Murphy, Learned, Lindley, Snow, Military Science, Blake, Fraser, Flint, Hwinton, Green, Meyer, Tyson, Macmillan and Dyce museums; Spencer and Watson libraries; and Robinson Gymnasium.
Because food and bedding supplies deteriorate rapidly Belote said, the shelters didn't have such supplies. However, he said they could be readily available in an emergency.
"We could never have enough shelters," Belote said.
However, he said that more shelters were needed on campus than were needed at home.
"I feel a certain responsibility to the students on the hill," he said. "They could be in a classroom and never know a storm coming out in the open can see it and take cover."
Belote was appointed county emergency preparedness director by the county commission in 1970. At that time, he said he would agree to take the job only if the county would launch a program to install a countywide warning system.
In 1972, the $100,000 system, funded with federal, state and local funds, was installed. Lawrence got 12 sirens, and Baldwin, Eudora and Lecompte each got one.
"It took a year to get out all the malfunctions," he said. "But now it's working."
Bolel said the system was checked at
beon on the first and third day of each
month.
Sirens have been installed atop JRP and Fraser halls.
The county civil defense plan calls for the constant preparedness of all nursing homes, schools and hospitals, each equipped with emergency situations, Belote said.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said that according to plan there were communication systems set up within the hospital to relay information to ambulance drivers.
Each person on the hospital staff knows what he would be expected to do in an emergency room.
to the children of the injured who had been admitted to the hospital, he said.
For instance, custodial workers would be charged of clearing debris from the site.
Clerical workers would identify victims who had been brought to the hospital and he said they would also help transport victims and operate communications systems.
In addition to doing regular medical tasks, some doctors and nurses would stand at hospital entrances to briefly examine what kind of care each person needed.
The last emergency drill was made late last spring, Wollmann said.
At that time, the need for more communications within the hospital became apparent. The hospital gained access to walkie-talkie radios that civil defense worker uses.
Wollmann said that Watkins Hospital would treat the victims of a University disaster and that Lawrence Memorial Hospital would treat the victims of a community disaster.
Each hospital would back the other if additional medical teams were needed, because it is safer.
The county has a field hospital stored on KU property, Belote said.
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but I think we're well prepared," he said.
Next month, Belote said, this year's second drill will take place. Two hundred volunteers will act as victims or casualties of the mock disaster, he said.
but I think we're well prepared," he said. Belote's assessment of the county plan was based on bannual drills by county civil defense volunteers. Each drill, he said, was monitored by state civil defense officials and elected county and city officials.
The hospital, which could be moved to such places as Kansas Memorial Stadium, Hoe Buch auriorum or the Kansas Union, is also one of the most disaster victims. Wollmann said.
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Bolate said the count was obligated to take the hospital anywhere within a 500-mile radius.
Overall, Beloit said he was pleased with the county plan.
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