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Holbrook Emergency Management Agency Mailing Address: Holbrook town Hall Emergency 9-1-1 Business 781-630-2201 Statewide 2-1-1 for
routine inquiries is active Monday – Friday 8am-8pm cONTACT
THE Director
OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT |
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Welcome to the Holbrook Emergency
Management Agency Website. We also host pages for the Health Department,
Holbrook Citizencorps, and the Auxiliary Police. Please take a few minutes to
look at our site, and volunteer for some of our programs. |
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Receive Email Alerts of Events and Priority/Emergency Alerts |
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Please Complete and Return a Public Preparedness Survey |
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Holbrook
Residents and Business Owners: Please sign up for the Public Notification Email Group. This
email group will be used to notify residents about upcoming classes,
meetings, events, and opportunities from Holbrook Emergency Management, the
Holbrook Board of Health, and other organizations that are related to public
safety. To join, visit the webpage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holbrookemergency/,
or send an email to holbrookemergency-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
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Residents
are asked to complete and return the public preparedness survey. This survey
will help us to develop plans that will make the town more disaster
resistant. You can download a copy below. A Copy is automatically emailed to
you when you join our email list. Public
Preparedness Survey (Word Format) Public
Preparedness Survey (Adobe PDF Format) |
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Announcements |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
Holbrook Public Safety Day. Saturday, September 13, 2008 10am-3pm Holbrook high School. Public Safety Agencies in our area have
been invited. We may also have a helicopter stop by. Please stop by and support this
important event! |
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Wednesday July 30, 2008 |
Rick Reuss has been
appointed as the new Emergency Management Director by the Board of Selectmen.
Joseph Morgan has appointed has been appointed as the Assistant Emergency
Management Director. Gene Santorelli has been
appointed as the Deputy Director. |
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Monday July 7, 2008 |
The Massachusetts Emergency
Management Agency has released the newest information in its series on
hurricane Preparedness – Shelter-In-Place Please click HERE to read the
advisory This advisory also has
updated contact information and lists the ways information will be
distributed in the town. Please take the time
now to gather materials which may be needed for an emergency. |
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Monday June 30, 2008 |
The Massachusetts
Emergency Management Agency has released the newest information in its series
on hurricane Preparedness – Evacuation Please click HERE to read the
advisory Please consider
volunteering for HEMA and getting training to assist in evacuation shelters! |
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Monday June 23, 2008 |
The Massachusetts
Emergency Management Agency has released the newest information in its series
on hurricane Preparedness – Preparing
Your Property. Please click HERE to read the
advisory |
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Monday June 16, 2008 |
The Massachusetts Emergency
Management Agency has released information on hurricane Preparedness. Creating
Home Disaster Kits Please click HERE to read the advisory. Please also see our
own section on home preparedness in the links! |
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Please
take note of the story to the right and start taking steps to prepare your household.
Please see the page on “Disaster Preparedness” for information on what
supplies to purchase and other steps you can take beginning now! |
Noted http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0239130720080402?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews Wed
Apr 2, 6:10 PM ET ORLANDO,
Florida (Reuters) - The noted Colorado State University forecast team expects
an above average Atlantic hurricane season and may raise its prediction of 13
tropical storms and seven hurricanes when it updates its outlook next week,
the team's founder Bill Gray said on Wednesday. La
Nina cool-water conditions in the Pacific and higher sea surface temperatures
in the eastern "We're
expecting an above average season," Gray said. "The big question we
have is, are we going to raise the numbers from our
December forecast? We might." "We're
not going to lower the numbers," he said. The
average hurricane season produces about 10 tropical storms and six hurricanes
-- a standard that was blown out of the water in the record-busting season of
2005, when 28 storms formed, including the hurricane that swamped The
Gray
said La Nina, a cooling of waters in the eastern Pacific that can enhance
conditions for hurricane activity in the "Also,
the sea surface temperatures in the eastern Atlantic particularly off Iberia
and off northwest Africa, they are very warm, much like they were at this
time in 1995 and 2005 when we had very active seasons," he said. (Reporting
by Jim Loney, editing by Michael Christie) |
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