TownOnline.com - Local News: Weymouth gearing up for hurricane season

TownOnline.com - Local News: Weymouth gearing up for hurricane season

"Weymouth gearing up for hurricane season
By Ed Baker/ ebaker@cnc.com
Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Along with other local and state officials, the Weymouth Civil Defense department is gearing up for hurricane season, which began last week.

Weymouth officials joined numerous southeastern Massachusetts emergency directors and staffs, including amateur radio operators, in a hurricane readiness drill at Braintree Town Hall on Monday.

The exercise, entitled 'Hurricane Hope,' involved all phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, and communications.

'It's a communication drill,' Weymouth Civil Defense Director John Mulveyhill said prior to the training exercise. 'We will be given scenarios where we will have to give situation reports and to have to report on we will respond to it.'

Mulveyhill said some of the mock emergencies of previous drills included a massive power outage in Braintree and Weymouth and a ship striking the Fore River Bridge."

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