Officials Re-Explain Local Evacuation Route Signs
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Daniel [email protected]
Those signs, as first reported by the Times-Union Sept. 5, 2008, are in place in case of a disaster of any type tornadoes to chemical spills.
And, yes, the signs go both directions on roads.[[In-content Ad]]"The evacuation isn't one out of the center of town," said Warsaw Police Department Lt. Kip Shuter. "Depending on where the disaster takes place, the routes are there to guide people out accordingly."
And should an incident take place where the routes are used, there are contingency plans in place where police and emergency personnel will be along the routes to guide people out.
Kosciusko County Emergency Management Director Ed Rock initiated the idea in 2007, and with the help of Shuter the idea was brought to the Warsaw Traffic Commission. In 2007, Warsaw City Council approved an ordinance establishing the routes.
The locations where emergency evacuation route signs are posted include: east and west routes at Center Street, as well as Winona Avenue from Detroit Street to Argonne Road; and north and south routes including Harrison Street from Center Street to the Kosciusko Community Hospital, Country Club Road, North Lake Street, Logan Street and Ranch Road.
Rock said the signs aren't intended to lead people anywhere but away out of the city and away from any potential disaster.
In that respect, the reason the signs go both ways along major streets in Warsaw is to plan for a possible disaster anywhere in or around the city.
"If there's a huge gas leak or chemical spill," said Rock. "It depends where it is and things like what direction the wind is blowing. Depending on that kind of information we can say 'We want you to go this way.'"
Rock also reiterated that the emergency routes will have first responders and police along it to guide people out of Warsaw.
Rock said the routes will be given on the radio for people to follow.
Rock also said it was great that people were noticing the signs.
As reported in the Times-Union, in September 2008 the Warsaw Street Department began installing the signs.
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Those signs, as first reported by the Times-Union Sept. 5, 2008, are in place in case of a disaster of any type tornadoes to chemical spills.
And, yes, the signs go both directions on roads.[[In-content Ad]]"The evacuation isn't one out of the center of town," said Warsaw Police Department Lt. Kip Shuter. "Depending on where the disaster takes place, the routes are there to guide people out accordingly."
And should an incident take place where the routes are used, there are contingency plans in place where police and emergency personnel will be along the routes to guide people out.
Kosciusko County Emergency Management Director Ed Rock initiated the idea in 2007, and with the help of Shuter the idea was brought to the Warsaw Traffic Commission. In 2007, Warsaw City Council approved an ordinance establishing the routes.
The locations where emergency evacuation route signs are posted include: east and west routes at Center Street, as well as Winona Avenue from Detroit Street to Argonne Road; and north and south routes including Harrison Street from Center Street to the Kosciusko Community Hospital, Country Club Road, North Lake Street, Logan Street and Ranch Road.
Rock said the signs aren't intended to lead people anywhere but away out of the city and away from any potential disaster.
In that respect, the reason the signs go both ways along major streets in Warsaw is to plan for a possible disaster anywhere in or around the city.
"If there's a huge gas leak or chemical spill," said Rock. "It depends where it is and things like what direction the wind is blowing. Depending on that kind of information we can say 'We want you to go this way.'"
Rock also reiterated that the emergency routes will have first responders and police along it to guide people out of Warsaw.
Rock said the routes will be given on the radio for people to follow.
Rock also said it was great that people were noticing the signs.
As reported in the Times-Union, in September 2008 the Warsaw Street Department began installing the signs.
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