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Prepared For Disaster?

The Emergency Operations Center will keep open the lines of communication in Hermosa Beach in an emergency. Commissioner Kenneth Hartley tours the center and urges residents to, "Be Prepared.!"

Kenneth Hartley is Commissioner of the Emergency Operations Center in Hermosa Beach. The EOC is the city's "communications bunker" in the event of a major earthquake, tsunami, or other occurrance that would disrupt telephone and television sevice. In this interview from October 2012, Ken tours the center and urges Hermosa Beach residents to prepare for likely disaster circumstances.

As a member of Leadership Hermosa Beach Class of 2008, Ken proposed the idea for a central communications center to serve in the event of a city-wide emergency. 

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