{"id":88199,"date":"2018-01-23T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88199"},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:05:56","slug":"madison-county-named-a-national-weather-service-stormready-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=88199","title":{"rendered":"Madison County named a National Weather Service StormReady community"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Madison County named a National Weather Service StormReady community<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madison County\u2019s Office of Emergency Management was recognized recently by the National Weather Service as being StormReady.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0StormReady Program recognizes emergency management programs that take a proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations and awareness. It also recognizes emergency management programs with improved communication and skills needed to save lives and property before and during an event.<\/p>\n

\"\"According to the NWS, about 98 percent of all president-declared disasters are weather-related. The StormReady Program encourages communities to improve hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with exact guidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis a tribute to our Emergency Management staff for meeting and exceeding the standards set forth by the NWS,\u201d said Ted Halpin, director of Emergency Management for Madison County. \u201cThanks also goes to the Madison County Board of Supervisors and other county departments for supporting our office. It affirms that our preparedness and response programs of our office are in line with national procedures and standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely proud of our Emergency Management Office and their continued provision of high-quality service to the people of Madison County,\u201d said County Administrator Mark Scimone.<\/p>\n

The StormReady status is valid for three years. Programs are required to re-validate their abilities and skills for re-certification.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are reminded to enroll in NYAlert (https:\/\/users.nyalert.gov\/<\/a>) and to follow our office on Twitter at\u00a0MadisonCoNY_EM\u00a0to receive emergency messages,\u201d Halpin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madison County named a National Weather Service StormReady community Madison County\u2019s Office of Emergency Management was recognized recently by the National Weather Service as being StormReady. The\u00a0StormReady Program recognizes emergency management programs that take a proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations and awareness. It also recognizes emergency management programs with improved communication and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mWz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MadisonCountyOEM.jpg?fit=1130%2C1130&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}