The National Weather Service said sirens alone are not an effective alert system and should be used in conjunction with local media and weather radio reports.
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ROCKTON Teams of local officials and trained volunteers on Tuesday canvassed neighborhoods surrounding Chemtool in an effort to gather an initial assessment on the extent homes and businesses were damaged by last week s massive industrial fire.
Local officials and engineers were joined by Team Rubicon, a volunteer veterans organization that provides disaster relief, Laborer’s Disaster Response Teams and others. They interviewed home and business owners while gathering data that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency can use use to apply for federal disaster funding. We have volunteer teams going house to house, said Jodi Moyer, an EMS coordinator for Beloit Health System who volunteers with Team Rubicon. We are talking to the homeowners getting some data the county is going to utilize working in conjunction with IEMA. This is data collection. Each team has a list of questions that are asked that correlate to IEMA’s damage assessment software. They literally
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