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ne year after COVID-19 arrived in Coweta County, local leaders reflected on how they handled the challenges posed by the pandemic. In a roundtable discussion hosted by the Newnan Rotary Club, heads of public safety discussed how the year changed their agencies and the boost they received from a supportive public. Fire Chiefs Pat Wilson (Coweta County Fire Rescue) and Stephen Brown (Newnan Fire) said the greatest challenge, like most agencies, was keeping both the public and their team safe. “We took a look on how to decontaminate,” Wilson said. “Our crews don’t wear certain components inside the building at all. We removed shoes outside so we don’t contaminate the building.” Wanting to get ahead of the panic, Brown and City Manager Cleatus Phillips sat down weeks before COVID-19 forced the community to shut down. Working together, a plan was formed to keep shifts
from interacting with each other in an effort to keep personnel safe and avoid prolonged absences from quarantining. “We stayed in touch with EMA and our city manager to keep plans up to date,” he said. “PPE was scarce, but the public stepped up to provide for us. We have what we need now, but support and prayers are always appreciated.” In the earliest parts of the pandemic, both fire and police said their call volumes dropped. “No one wanted to go to the hospital,” Wilson said. Sheriff Lemn Wood said keeping his employees calm, despite a barrage of scare tactics from the national media, was a crucial step in maintaining a good working environment at the sheriff ’s office. “We got our information from the DPH and watched the stats from the CDC,” Wood said. Like other local agencies, PPE became scarce, but local businesses that were shut down brought
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However, not seeing family was one of the hardest obstacles for many, especially during the holidays. “You have to quarantine to avoid being around the elderly or high risk,” Wood said. “That was the hardest thing to deal with. We’ve had counselors talk to our officers who were dealing with those kinds of issues and worked through it.” Like Wood, Newnan Police Chief Buster Meadows said acquiring PPE and keeping officers in commission was a task. “In the past, officers might run full steam ahead into a situation, but we were forced to slow up and evaluate a situation,” Meadows said. “Be safe, be quick and then respond. It’s caused us to be more cautious going forward." The community has backed us well. They were always there and we ate well. Coweta County EMA and 911 Director Michael Terrell also confirmed the im-
pact of strong community support. "On the 911 side, our biggest challenge was keeping staffing going,” he said. "At 911, you can’t send people home to work. They have to work in that room, so we enforced temperature checks, masks, and limiting visitors.” EMA also helped coordinate distributing PPE, setting up tents at hospitals and nursing homes and helping establish vaccine pods for the DPH. “We’re trying to be where we can help the most,” Terrell said. “We’re not first responders in the field, but we take the calls so we’re the hub of the wheel. They’re where the rubber meets the road.” Terrell also urged residents to sign up for Coweta Alerts by Texting “cowetaalerts" to 67283. In a year filled with challenges, recruiting was surprisingly not an issue, Terrell said. “Our county has raised our pay to ensure we’re competitive,” Terrell said. “People want to help.” Wood also said his department is closer to being fully staffed than ever. “The ‘defunding the police’ movement
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Meadows said Coweta’s reputation as really helped us since we’re supported by our community,” he said. “We’ve re- a strong community has been a solid recruited new officers from Atlanta and cruiting tool for first responders. “It’s amazing to see how well-recogPeachtree City. They see how much better off we are in Coweta County than nized we are,” he said. other places.”
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