Holbrook Emergency Management Agency Mailing Address: Holbrook town Hall 50 North Franklin Street Holbrook, MA 02343 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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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		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)
Announcements
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
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 U.S. hurricane forecaster expects busy season 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 Atlantic are contributing to enhanced conditions for hurricane activity, Gray told Reuters at the U.S. National Hurricane Conference. "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 New Orleans, Katrina. The Colorado State team issues forecasts several times a year. In December, it said it expected the 2008 season starting June 1 to produce 13 tropical storms, of which seven would become hurricanes and three would be major hurricanes with winds of at least 111 miles per hour (178 km per hour). Gray said La Nina, a cooling of waters in the eastern Pacific that can enhance conditions for hurricane activity in the Atlantic, will be "on the cold side." "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)