A creaky-looking leather chair. A large easel with a map of Harford County. A worn, wooden desk, on which rests a rotary phone, a tube radio, and a reel-to-reel recorder. Yesterday, this was the county’s emergency operations and dispatch center in downtown Bel Air. Today, the center occupies a low-slung building in Hickory, a decades-old […]
Harford County Braces for Hurricane Irene; Local Agencies Urge Preparedness, Provide Tips for Surviving the Storm
Across Harford County, local residents, emergency organizations, utility companies, and local governments prepared Thursday for the coming of Hurricane Irene, a powerful storm expected to lash the area with winds reaching tropical storm-strength, several inches of rain, and storm surges several feet above normal. Preparing for the worst, a variety of local operations each distributed […]
