The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a plan to improve emergency response planning and communication with the Loma Prieta community in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Changes include more collaboration between Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, a joint community safety event this spring and the creation of a joint sheriff’s office substation on the Loma Prieta Joint Union School District campus.
“When disaster strikes, no one cares who’s on one side of the line and who’s on another, but you need to make sure that public institutions are ready to respond and those artificial boundaries don’t get in the way of rapid response,” Simitian said. The county’s Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation Committee will hear a progress report on this plan in May.
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