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Date Posted: 16:36:53 11/23/02 Sat
Author: Leland Gaunt
Subject: Law Enforcement Response Time Concerning Emergencies


I am fully aware that many of you good people of Vermont probably have never experienced an earthquake in your area. I hope you never do if the quake is of major consequence.
Still I wish to illustrate this scenerio if this should happen in any location. This will concern itself with widespread damage liken to the 1964 Alaska earthquake. This means severe highway, expressway, freeway damage. Hospitals, schools, markets, stores, drugstores, governmental services all damaged or made inoperative for days and weeks. I attained this bit of information from a very informative geological periodical called, "Earthquake Country". This small paragraph concerning law enforcement, fire and emergency services was illustrated on page 136 of "Earthquake Country". The book is written by Robert L. Iacopi. Additonally if anyone in a large metropolitian area thinks that their well being will assured for a period of time during a disaster of this nature will be mistaken. Any water, food, medical needs, personal safety of family and yourself will be left up to you. Therefore anyone who advocates gun-control or confiscation of fire arms and guns is short sighted and without foundation.

The average normal response time for police and fire protection under these circumstances has been documented in the Los Angeles Daily News. Again this is an average response time geared for certain cities and communities. This according the the Police Protective League.

San Fernando Valley Response Time...12.6 Minutes
Los Angeles Response Time...........12.1 Minutes
Burbank Response Time................7.2 Minutes
San Diego Response Time..............7.2 Minutes
Chicago Response time................2.0 Minutes

The paragraph in "Earthquake Country" on page 136 is liken to this.

"A major earthquake can overwhelm local law enforcement, fire and emergency medical personnel and resources. You cannot expect these agencies to react immediately to problems at private homes-they will be busy attending to the needs of emergency centers and responding to crisis in major business areas. If transportation and communication channels are damaged, finding help for your personal problems make take hours or days. Your best course of action is to assume personal responsibility for your own immediate area during the first crucial hours after the quake".


Again for all governmental agencies to act, it will take time for a civil defense plan to be put into effect. This would include local, county, state and federal. This would concern itself with a large metropolitian area liken to 10,000,000 million or more in population. This may be an area as wide as 250 miles north to south; and 300 miles east to west. This book is well documented and is must reading. The book is endorsed by the California Technological Institute of Pasadena; Bureau of Land Minds plus the Humbolt Geological Survey of California.
This posting is not to scare you. Still those who carry the gun-control agenda cannot see the proverbial trees from the forest when it comes to safety issues in long terms.
The book takes no official position on the gun issue debate.

Leland

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