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Communication is a priority after quake drill BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Above, a group at a vigil on Ediz Hook on Saturday gives a moment of silence to the 49 victims who were killed in Orlando, Fla., on June 12. Below, Port Townsend resident Ellen Bonjorno removes rainbow fabric from a display following Saturday’s gathering.
Ediz Hook vigil honors 49 lives lost in attack BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A group of about 30 people held hands and stood silently in a circle on Ediz Hook on Saturday, taking a moment to honor the lives of 49 people who were massacred at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month. Not far off was a poster with the photos and names of the victims whose lives were being honored. Rainbow fabric was wrapped around driftwood, hanging over a banner that read “Port Angeles stands with Orlando.”
‘Unfortunately familiar’ “I was in tears putting it together because it just breaks my heart that someone would do this,” said Shanee Wimberly, who organized the vigil. “These faces have become unfortunately familiar to us.” TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The sheer volume of data collected two weeks ago during the four-day Cascadia Rising exercise will take several months to compile into bite-sized portions, but organizers already know an emphasis on communications needs to take priority. “The recommendation is we need to staff more amateur radio operators per command areas . . . for exercises and real events,” Jamye Wisecup, Clallam County Emergency Management Department program coordinator, said last week. During the exercise — which spanned June 7-10 — organizers assessed how city, county, state and federal emergency responders would handle the inevitable tsunami, loss of power and broken landscape a massive earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone would cause in coastal communities throughout Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. The exercise focused on seven categories, Wisecup said: operational coordination, operational communications, critical transportation, public health and medical services, mass-care services, situational assessment and exercise design. All seven categories have room for improvement, she said. “Always,” Wisecup said. “That is why you” conduct such exercises and pour through the data afterward. That was the case after action reports from actual natural disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, Wisecup said. Each report included a “bunch
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he exercise focused on seven categories, Wisecup said: operational coordination, operational communications, critical transportation, public health and medical services, masscare services, situational assessment and exercise design. of new stuff you never thought about,” she said. “Even if lives are lost, there are lessons learned. To me it is a continual learning [process]. We are getting so much better.” That, she continued, is the point of exercises such as Cascadia Rising. “Constantly being able to try and reduce the impact of natural disasters on our communities, that’s what these things do,” she said.
After action report Wisecup said the final version of the after action report won’t be available until autumn, although she said she hopes to have information available by August to share with the three Clallam County commissioners. “I am separating my data, which is stacks of input,” Wisecup said. “I have tons of data and I put those into my improvement action plan, which is your after-action report, and it looks at like what objectives you were testing.” TURN
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Race to Alaska competitors start 2nd leg Group leaves Victoria for Ketchikan BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
VICTORIA, B.C. –– The second leg of a grueling water race to Ketchikan, Alaska, is now underway. The 38 teams still competing in the second-annual Race to Alaska started the race Le-Mans style at noon in Victoria, B.C., on Sunday, with racers having to run down the dock to their boats before leaving the harbor. “The start of the race was awesome,” said Jared Scott, communications manager for Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, which organized the event.
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This is the second year of the race, which was open to nonmotorized craft racing from Port Townsend to Victoria in the first leg and then on to Ketchikan under their own power. Now teams are racing across a 710-mile stretch of water to be the first to arrive to Ketchikan, in hopes of earning the $10,000 firstplace cash prize. Those relying on wind were off to a slow start Sunday, with little wind as racers left the harbor. Team MAD Dog Racing held a strong lead Sunday evening and was about 6 miles ahead of the nearest vessel.
There are many types of vessels competing in the race, including a paddleboarder who was in the top 10 on Sunday. Scott said the paddleboarder, Karl Kruger, estimated he could travel between 40 and 50 miles a day. “That’s just mind-boggling,” he said. “The paddleboarder is just an incredible athlete.”
Qualify On Thursday, racers started the qualifying leg of the race in Port Townsend. Racers had 36 STEVE MULLENSKY/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS hours to qualify for the next 710mile leg from Victoria to Ket- With the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C., as a backdrop, competitors in the Race to Alaska paddle and row their chikan.
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