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University Daily Kansan, September 7, 1982
Office prepares Lawrence for the worst
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
John Kasberger spends his time preparing for things he hopes never happen.
"It's kind of like a fire extinguisher," Kasberger, assistant director of the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Office, said last week. "You pay good money for it and hope you never use it. You hope it rusts out."
The main duty of the preparedness office is to work with governmental departments and coordinate activities that would be necessary should any kind of emergency occur. Kasberger said.
But what's an emergency? The tornado that struck Lawrence in June 1981 qualified, as would any kind of nuclear scare, Kasberger said.
His office has six electricity generators, each of which can produce from five kilowatts to 15 kilowatts, a rescue boat that quicks to help it deal with an emergency.
If an emergency did occur, local government officials and some department heads would be brought to the Lawrence Emergency Operating Center near 104th Street and Law Enforcement Center near Eleventh and New Hampshire streets.
They would go to one of two rooms of
the EOC. Contained in one of the rooms are radios for the police and sheriff's departments, city and county public works crews, the county ambulance service and the Lawrence and Wakarusa fire departments.
The room also contains several telephones and maps of the Lawrence-Douglas County area and is protected from some of the dangers of nuclear explosion. For example, the electromagnetic pulse of a bromine atom can cause explosions in naphalems; but would destroy every plug-ined electrical appliance from Minneapolis to Houston, Kasberger said, but the equipment in the EOC room is shielded.
The movie that ABC-TV is now filming in Lawrence, "The Day After," is based on the premise of an attack that drops nine 20-megaton nuclear bombs across the United States. After the attack, residents of the Kansas City metropolitan area are evacuated to Lawrence.
A similar evacuation plan was released by the preparedness office Wednesday. That plan calls for Lawrence residents to travel to surrounding towns, including Willisville, Ottawa, Garrett, in case of a nuclear attack.
Plans for the evacuation are handled by the state, Kasberger said.
"It's something that's a beginning in
preparing people for an evacuation," he said.
The second room in the EOC that would be important in an emergency also contains a number of telephones, a large table and more maps. The room would be used by local government officials, or police officers, as the wall shows the locations of the county's outdoor warning sirens and the areas they cover.
A third room in the EOC is for the Skywarm organization, a group of volunteer sky watchers who attempt to spot tornadoes from posts on the outskirts of town during bad weather. If a tornado was sighted, the citizens would inform the EOC by citizen band and the warning sirens would be sounded.
In the same room.are short wave radios, for use when the CB radios don't have the range.
The entire EOC can be powered by a diesel engine power plant, if needed. A 500-gallon underground tank would sumly the fuel.
The EOC also can supply its own water. The main valve can be closed if the pressure drops below 14 PSI.
inated, Kasberger said. The EOC would then be switched to a reserve water supply of 10,000 gallons, which he said would last about 30 days.
The preparedness office can use its field command truck, which is equipped with more radios, if a commander needs the EOC is needed, Kasberger said.
The office has compiled a list of important phone numbers in case more information is needed.
"In case the city and county exhaust all of their equipment we can go to the National Guard and construction companies," Kasberger said.
Despite all of these preparations, it is not possible to be completely prepared for any event.
"You find that out after it happens," he said.
The Lawrence EOC is equipped as well as most of the emergency preparedness offices in Kansas, and probably better than most, be said.
Kasberger said he and Phil Leonard, director of the office, were almost always on call. They both carry an emergency beeper and Leonard has an emergency radio.
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