{"id":11557,"date":"2012-03-16T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2012-03-16T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:07:33","slug":"news-brief-this-is-a-drill-only-a-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11557","title":{"rendered":"News brief: &#8220;This is a drill, only a drill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attention scanner listeners: Dispatchers in Lewis County&#8217;s 911 center will be participating in a drill today, practicing how to deal with an undisclosed emergency situation.<\/p>\n<p>The radio communications will be conducted on a secondary frequency, and will be preceded by an announcement it is an exercise, according to Laura Hanson at Lewis County Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The drill is expected to begin about 1 p.m. and could continue until as late as 2:30 p.m., depending upon actual emergency communications needing attention at the same time, Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>The mock scenario will involve some type of incident taking place close enough to the Historic Courthouse on Main Street in Chehalis that dispatchers would have to &#8220;shelter in place&#8221;, Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>Also taking part in radio and phone communications simulating their response will be Chehalis police, fire, the sheriff&#8217;s office, the jail and other county departments, according to Hanson.<\/p>\n<p>For the 911 center, it is an opportunity to check and refine their continuity of operations plan, according to Hanson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Attention scanner listeners: Dispatchers in Lewis County&#8217;s 911 center will be participating in a drill today, practicing how to deal with an undisclosed emergency situation. The radio communications will be conducted on a secondary frequency, and will be preceded by an announcement it is an exercise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11560,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}