This was an exercise. “Hurricane Amanda” struck the upper Texas Coast. Thousands
were evacuated to North Texas. Approximately 331 men, women and children were
being sent to Fort Worth’s Wilkerson Grimes Auditorium for medical assistance
and sheltering, and more than 100 were seeking treatment in Arlington.
In this full-scale exercise, was Arlington ready?
“We were,” says Emergency Management Coordinator Ben Patterson who managed the
April 28-29 drill from the Emergency Operations Center at Ott Cribbs Public
Safety Building.
“We were pleased with this deployment. It gave us an opportunity to test
equipment and identify procedural gaps.”
This week’s deployment was part of a statewide exercise to simulate the
sheltering and medical treatment of an influx of evacuees from a devastating
hurricane.
Emergency personnel staged the hurricane response drill at Vandergriff Park,
utilizing a 3,000-square-foot, acute-care mobile medical unit for triaging.
A mobile command center presided over incident command and two shelter trailers
deployed to support shelter operations.
In less than 1 hour and 30 minutes, the two shelters were assembled and
operational, staffed with personnel from the USMD Hospital at Arlington,
Arlington Memorial Hospital, Texas Health Resources and Tarrant County Medical
Examiner’s office. Shelters were equipped with cots, pillows, blankets, and
medical supplies.
During the drill, the city introduced its Mobile Command Center. Funded by U.S.
Homeland Security grants, it is equipped with state-of-the-art technology,
including computers, radios and video. The Police Department’s Mobile Command
Unit 1 was deployed to manage crisis incidents, providing perimeter security
with patrol officers and sky watch observation tower.
Visit the New Dangerous and Substandard Structures (DSS) Website
The Code Enforcement DSS Team, a Division of Community Services, is working to
identify and eliminate dangerous and substandard structures in Arlington. View
the DSS Website View
the DSS List (pdf) View
the DSS Map (pdf)
Johnson Creek - A Vision of Conservation The purpose of this plan is to provide sufficient background
information on the major environmental threats that continue to
worsen Johnson Creek; outline the holistic strategy and feasible
approach developed to address each threat; prioritize and cost all
completed, unfinished, and newly proposed Johnson Creek projects for
inclusion in the modified plan; and request federal funding for all
components of the plan as described in subsequent chapters. Read
the Conservation Plan (pdf) Johnson
Creek Public Meeting: Questions and Answers
October 9, 2006 (pdf) Johnson
Creek Presentation, January 9, 2007 (pdf) Area
Map (pdf)
Cowboys Stadium Project
Information In November of 2004, more
than 62,000 residents voted yes authorizing the City of
Arlington to provide the planning, acquisition, construction
and financing for the Dallas Cowboys complex development
project. Visit
the Cowboys New Stadium web site
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