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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 218-1942 0RDINANCE N0. ~/~ AN ORDINANCE OF T~HE CITY~0F SOUTH SA_~ FRANCISCO """.~l ESTABLISHI~¢G AN EMERGENCY CoNTRoL CENTER. -'~ '~.~ The city council of the City of South San Francisco do ordain as follows: Section 1. There shall be establi'shed at some central, safe and enclosed place in this city a room, or rooms, which shall be knoE as the Control Center, and which shall be used in times of imminent public danger as the center from which the emergency services herein- after referred to shall be directed and coordinated. Section 2. There are hereby created the following divisions of emergency service and said divisions shall include the following emergency service organizations, whether volunteer or otherwise: (a) Division of Emergency Fire Service: (1) Fire Depart- ment; (2) Auxiliary Firemen; (3) Rescue Squads. (b) Division of Emergency Police Service: (1) Police Depart- ment; (2) Auxiliary Police; (3) Bomb Squads. (c) Division of ~$ardens Service: (1) Air Raid Wardens; (2) Fire Watchers; (3) Emergency Food and Housing Corps. (d) Division of Emergency Medical Service: (1) Medical Corps; (2) Nurses Aides Corps; (3) Emergency Medical Field Units; (&) Ambu- lance Units; (5) Casualty Stations; (6) First Aid Posts. (e) Division of Emergency Public Works Service: (1) Repair Squads for roads, sewers, and water.mains; (2) Demolition and Clear- ance Squads; (3) Deconte~mination Squads for buildings and streets. (f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service: (1) Municipally- owne~ Utilities; (2,) Privately-owne~ Utilities; (3) Volunteer Utility Repair Squads. section 3. There is hereby created in each division of emergency service the position of Chief of the Division. The chiefs of the several divisions of emergency service shall be the following: (a) Division of Emergency Fire Service - Chief of the Fire Department. (bi Division of Emergency Police Service - Chief of the Police Department. 'i~ardens Service Chief Air Raid Warden. (c) Division of - (d) Division of Emergency Medical Service -Such city officer or other person as may hereafter be appointed Chief of the Division of Emergency Nedical Service by resolution of the city council. ~$) Division of Emergency Public Works Service - City Engineer. ~f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service - Such city officer or other person as may hereafter be appointed Chief of the Division of Emergency Service by resolution of the city councile Sect ion ~e The chiefs of the several divisions of emergency service shall attend, either in person, or by their duly appointed alternates, at the Control Center during periods of imminent public danger to direct as far as possible the emergency activities of their divisions from the Control Center. Section 5e The Control Center shall be organized by a co-ordinato~, which position is hereby create~. The co-ordinator shall be mayor. During periods of imminent~ public danger the activities of all divisions of emergency service shall be organized in the Control Center by the co- ordinator. The co-ordinator shall arrange for the privately-owned gas,. electric, transportation, and telephone utilities, and the American Red Cross to send representatives to the Control Center for the purpose of assisting in the emergency work thereof. Section 6. The co-ordinator shall arrange for the installation in the Control Center of such communication facilities as may be necessary to enablm the several chiefs of the divisions of emergency service to keep in touch with and superinten~ work of their respective divisions during periods of imminent public danger and to enable the Control Center to keep in constant touch with the County Control Center, or other Control Center of any larger area in which this city may b® include~, for purposes of regional co-ordination and mutual aid, or the Control Center of any higher level of g°vernmen~, and to enable the -2- Control Center to receive the messages and warnings of the ~United States Air Raid Warning System. The co-ordinator shall arrange for an adequate number of messengers to carry messages to and from the Control Center in the event of the failure of communication facilities or other necessity, and shall arrange for a properly protected room for them and for parking facilities for their vehicles as close to the Control Center as possible. The co-ordinator shall arrange for an alternative Control Center for use in case the primary Control Center is damaged or destroyed. Section 7. The~ Chief of each division of emergency service shall install in the Control Center such maps, files and office equipmen~ and shall provide such assistants as may be necessary to carry on ef- ficiently the work of his division of emergency service during periods of i_~minenl~ public danger, and he shall maintain an accurate roll of the names and addresses of the members of the several services included within his division, shall supervise their training and shall designate the persons in his division to whom equipmenl~, and any official insignia provide~ or authorized for such services by the Unite~ States Office of Civilian Defense, shall be issue~., and shall have the authority to dis- miss any volunteer member of his division and to require the surrender of equipment and insignia by such dismisse~ members. Section 8. The co-ordinator and the several chiefs of the division of emergency service shall designate deputies to take their Places and perform their duties in the Control Center in the event they are absent, become incapacitate~, or otherwise unable to act. Section.9? During any period of ~mminent public danger the co- ordinator shall keep all Control Centers, referred to in Section 6 here- of, fully informe~ concerning conditions within the city and the necessity for and availability of personnel and equipment for mutual assistance. All requests to or from other communities for assistance shall be cleare~ through such last mentione~ Control Centers and shall be complied with to the fulles~ extent that circumstances will permit. Section 10. In the event this city is included in any plan for a larger or higher Control Center, which plan calls for the presence therein of a representative of any of the divisions of emergency service of this city, the chief of such division may be authorized by resolution of the city council to participate in such plan and to arrange for such representation. Section 11. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergenay measure necessary for the i~m!ediate preservation of the public peace, health a~.~d safety, and the following is the statement of facts con- stituting such emergency: The United States is at war and this city is in great and continuing danger of attack by the enemy. The exi- gencies of war and the i~inence of great public peril have thrown unprecedented burdens upon the regular employees of this city. The danger is such as to admit of no delay in providing additional support and aid, voluntarily offered by aitizens, in the maintenanoe of public safety. Section 1~. The city clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be published in "The ~nterprise~, a newspaper of general circulation primted and published in this city and henceforth and thereafter the s~e shall be in full for~ ~d effec~. -O-O-O -O -O-O Passed and adopted as an ordina~ce of the City of South S~ Francisco at a regular meeting of the city council of said City of d 1942 by the follow- South San Francisco, on the ~ ay of ~'~,~rch, , ing vote: Noe s, Corm ilmen Absent, Councilmen ~ ~ Approved: Mayor of the City of South S~ Francisco. _ Cit~ ~erk~