Emergency Preparedness

Speakers urge local leaders to consider possible threats (10/01/08)
Maybe it will be an ice storm. Maybe a pandemic flu. Or maybe a terrorist strike with chemical weapons. Disaster is always on the horizon -- at least that was the message at a "Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail" videoconference that brought together local leaders from Le Mars and in six other states...

Local National Guard unit helps fend off floodwater (06/16/08)
Fifty-five members of the local National Guard unit were working through the night this weekend to help hold back flood water in downtown Des Moines and Burlington. The group from Le Mars' C-Troop 113th Cavalry left Thursday to help sandbag near the rising Des Moines River. This weekend they were called to Burlington to help with sandbagging efforts along the swelling Mississippi River, and they are continuing with that effort this week...

Schipper tells council local diaster plan learning efforts going well (06/06/08)
Le Mars Fire Chief Wayne Schipper put the city council on alert Tuesday. The council members, Schipper said during the group's regular session, are most likely the next to be tested on their awareness and knowledge of the city's disaster plan. "We want everyone," Schipper said, "to be aware of the plan's basics."...