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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 3641 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ORDINANCE 130. 364 Ali ORDID;AI+CE Or THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ESTABLISHING AN EMERGENCY CONTROL CENTER. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. There shall be established at some central, safe and enclosed place in this city a room, or rooms, which shall be known as the Control Center, and which shall be used in times of imminent public danger as the center from which the Emergency Services hereinafter referred to shall be directed and coordinated. SECTION 2. There are hereby created the following Divisions of Emergency Service and said Divisions shall include the following emergency service organizations, whether volunteer or otherwise: (a) Division of Emergency* Fire Service (1) Fire Department (2) Auxiliary Firemen (3) Rescue Squads (b) Division of Emergency Police Service (1) Police Department (2) Auxiliary Police (3) Bomb Squads (c) Division of Wardens Service (1) Air Raid Wardens (2) Fire Watchers (3) Emergency Food and Housing Corps (d) Division of Zmergency Medical Service (1) I.4edical Corps (2) Nurses Aides Corps (3) Emergency Medical Field Units (4) Ambulance Units (5) Casualty Stations (6) First Aid Posts -1- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (e) Division of Emergency Public Works Service (1) Repair Squads for roads, sewers, and water -mains (2) Demolition and Clearance Squads (3} Decontamination Squads for buildings and dtreets (f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service (1) Municipally -owned Utilities (2) Privately -owned Utilities (3) Volunteer Utility Repair Squads SECTION 3. There is hereby created in each Division of Emergency Service the position of Chief of the Division. The Chiefs of the several Divisions of Emergency Service shall be the following: (a) Division of Emergency Fire Service - Chief of the Fire Department. (b) Division of Emergency Police Service - Chief of the Police Department. (c) Division of Wardens Service - Chief of the Police'.Department. (d) Division of Emergency Medical Service - Such person as is designated or appointed as Chief of the Divi- sion of Emergency Medical Service by Resolution or other order of the City Council. (e) Division of Emergency Public Works Service - Such person as is designated or appointed as Chief of the Division of i9ergency Public Storks Service by Resolution or other order of the City Council. (f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service - Such per- son as is designated or appointed as Chief of the Division of Emergency Utilities Service by resolu- tion or other order of the City Council. SECTION 4. The Chiefs of the several divisions of Emergency Service shall attend, either in person, or by theme duly appointed alternates, at the Control Center during periods of imminent public danger to direct as far as possible the emergency activities of their Divisions from the Control Center. -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION --5—. The Control Center shall be organized by a Co-ordinator, which position is hereby created. The Co-ordinator shall be such person as is designated or appointed as such by resolution or other order of the City Council. During periods of imminent public danger the activities of all Divisions of Emergency Service shall be organized in the Control Center by the Co-ordinator. The C'o-ordinator shall arrange for the privately -owned gas, electric, transportation, and tele- phone utilities, and the -�Imerica.n Red Cross to send representatives to the Control Center for the purpose of assisting in the emergency work thereof. SECTION 6. The Co-ordinator shall arrange for the installation in the Control Center of such communication facilities as may be necessary to enable the several Chiefs of the Divisions of 'ffi6rgency Service to keep in touch with and superintend the work of their respective Divisions during periods of imminent public danger and to enable the Control Center to keep in constant touch with the County Control Center, or other Control Center of any larger area in which this city may be included, for purposes of regional co-ordination and mutual aid, or the Control Center of any higher level of government, and to enable the Control Center to receive the messages and warnings of the United States Air Raid Warning System. The Co-ordinator shall arrange for an adequate number of messengers to carry messages to and from the Control Center in the event of the failure of communication facilities or other nec&ssity, and shall arrange for a properly protected room for them and for parking faci- lities for their vehicles as close to the Control Center as possible. The Co-ordinator shall arrange for an alternative Control Center for use in case the primary Control Center is damaged or destroyed. SECTION 7, The Chief of each Division of Emergency Service shall maihtaixi.atthe Control Center such data and shall provide such assistants as are necessary to carry on the work of his Division, which shall include an accurate roll of the names and addresses of the members of the several services included within his Division, shall supervise their training, shall designate the Dersons in his Division to whom equipment and official Insignia shall be issued, shall have authority to dis- miss any volunteer member of his Division and to require such dismissed member to surrender his equipment and insignia. SECTION 8. The Co-ordinator and the several Chiefs of the Division of Emergency Service shall designate Deputies to take their places and perform their duties in the Control Center in the event they are absent, become incapacitated, or otherwise unable to act. 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25' 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION 9. During any period of imminent public danger the Co-ordinator shall keep all Control Centers, referred to in Section 6 hereof, fully informed concern- ing conditions within the city and the necessity for and availability of personnel and.equipment for mutual assis- tance. All requests to or from other communities for assistance shall be cleared through such last mentioned Control Centers and shall be complied with to the fullest extent that circumstances will permit. SECTION 10. In the event this city is included in any plan for a larger or higher Control Center, which plan calls for the presence therein of a representative of any of the Divisions of Emergency Service of this city, the Chief of such Division may be authorized by resolution of the City Council to participate in such plan and to arrange for such representation. SECTION 11. This ordinanceis declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preserva- tion of the public peace, health and safety and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication as required by law. A declaration of and the facts constituting the urgency of this measure Is that the United States is at war and this city is in great and continuing danger of attack by the enemy, that the exigencies of war and the imminence of great public peril have thrown unprecedented burdens upon the employees of this city and the danger to the city is such as to admit of no delay in providing the volunteer support and aid of the citizenry in the maintenance of public- health and safety. SECTION 12. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication thereof and shall cause the same to be published once, within 15 days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose and thenceforth and thereafter this ordinance shall be in full force and effect. 6 V. A. OWENS Mayor of the City of Azusa Attest; PS. P_. HYNE , City Clerk of the Cit of Azusa. Passed, approved and adopted this � day of April, 1942. -4- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 I P. STATE OF CALIFORAIA ) (SS. County of Los Angeles ) I, 1,4. A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly introduced, placed upon its first reading and fully read at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa held on April 3, 1942,.in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council in said City; that thereafter said ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the t'.ayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at a regular adjourned meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council on April 9, 1942, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Ayes: Councilmen: Jumper, Malone, Arnold, Owens. Noes: None Absent: Councilman: Bradshaw I DO FURTHER C-,RTIFY that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic on April 9, 1942, g newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the same was published in accordance with law. -5- II. A. HY J City Clerk of t City of Azusa.