June 2025 | Vol. 21 Iss. 6
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Emergency Preparedness Fair provides emergency disaster training for residents By Collette Hayes | c.hayes@mycityjournals.com Fifteen emergency preparedness booths alarms, making more than 1 million households safer nationwide. provide valuable tips and innovative “The Red Cross held CPR classes and ideas. provided important information about their
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he annual Northeast Holladay Neighbors Emergency Preparedness Fair sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Olympus Stake and Holladay City expanded from one location to three this year to localize the event and help community members to identify their local command center in the event of an emergency. The two-day preparedness fair held in April featured 15 booths, where over 500 residents learned valuable emergency preparedness tips and ideas. Representatives from the Red Cross were on hand at each location to answer questions and provide demonstrations about their “Sound The Alarm” program. According to the Red Cross, this program has installed more than 2.5 million free smoke
smoke detector program, which includes home visits to check detectors,” said event director Scott Snow. “Their program offers the installation of up to four smoke detectors for free to ensure that citizens and seniors are safe.” In the event of a significant disaster, the Rapid Damage Assessment Plan has been the adopted emergency strategy of the northeast section of Holladay for the past five years and is supported by Holladay City. This plan allows volunteers to assess damage and injuries after an emergency and quickly report their findings to government officials. Following the guidelines of the assessment plan, earthquake awareness classes were conducted to “We focused specifically on creating 72-hour emergency grab-and-go kits and their
contents. Also, we provided visitors with resources to build their own,” said Emer-
Continued page 4 gency Preparedness Fair event director Scott Snow. (Photo courtesy Scott Snow)
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