Tag: Denver Office Of Emergency Management
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What’s that sound? Denver siren testing set for Wednesday morning
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s 11 a.m. on a Wednesday and sirens are going off everywhere in the Mile High City. No worries, that’s just Denver’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) performing its annual live test of its 86 all-hazard outdoor sirens, which it plans to sound off at…
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Texas ‘Ghost bus’ drops off a load of immigrants, this time at Colorado state Capitol
Colorado got an unexpected delivery from the state of Texas Monday morning. A busload of immigrants just in from Texas was dropped off at the state capitol, city officials confirmed. These types of bus drop-offs are not unusual, but what is new is the location, officials said. Leaving people at the center of state government…
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Denver gives out 1,000-plus emergency backpacks
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver’s emergency office held its second-annual DenverREADY Preparedness Fair on Saturday at the Montbello Recreation Center, an exercise aimed at helping local communities prepare amidst the backdrop of increasing frequency of natural disasters. Natural disasters in Colorado have jumped up over 275% over the last 20 years. There…
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Colorado Springs nonprofit prepares to help immigrants who unexpectedly arrived in Denver
Juaquin Mobley, senior vice president of CommunityWorks, a faith-based nonprofit organization, remembers watching his father struggle after the family emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States with not much money and few possessions. “It was hard,” Mobley said. While Mobley’s father was able to find placement in the military, many immigrants aren’t able…