The 2012 Evergreen Exercise Series begins June 5-6 with a response phase, continues June 12-14 with a logistics management phase, and concludes with short-term and long-term recovery workshops in August. See—
Wash. State, Central Puget Sound--Simulated large-magnitude earthquakes will hit the Puget Sound area on June 4, 2012. Triggered by these faux quakes, city, county, state, tribal and federal agencies will exercise their response and recovery plans as the 2012 Evergreen Quake Exercise Series kicks off. The first week of June will be a two-day response exercise; the next week, a logistics exercise; and, to wrap up the series, two tabletop exercises on short- and long-term recovery will occur in August.
]]>Residents of Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states have reported receiving calls from someone requesting money for 9-1-1 services. The caller claims that residents must pay a fee to register their house in a 9‑1‑1 database so first responders can locate the home in an emergency. The caller also requests names and medical information from the residents.
This is a scam. 9-1-1 services are funded through dedicated 9-1-1 excise taxes on telephone bills and by other local government funds.
Any request for 9-1-1 funds over the phone is a fraud. Residents who receive these calls should hang up and report the suspicious call to their local police or sheriff’s non-emergency phone number.
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