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San Francisco Earthquake Planners Developing Pet-Disaster Response
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Disaster planners are including pets in their disaster plans. // Source: emergencymgmt.com
submitted by Samuel Bendett
Homeland Security News Wire - April 20, 2012
San Francisco is preparing for the Big One in more ways than one: the latest addition to the city’s disaster preparedness plans is a legion of pet disaster responders, trained by city officials to rescue pet dogs, cats, rodents, birds, and reptiles in the event of a disaster, and transport them to one of 125 temporary shelters
San Franciscans have for years been planning for the Big One, and for smaller quakes as well, with enhanced building codes which require many new hospitals, schools, and municipal buildings to include base isolators in their construction. Base isolators act as shock absorbers that minimize the effect of ground shifting on the building. Now, the New York Times reports that the city’s disaster plans have expanded to include household pets.
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