ML20039G218
| ML20039G218 | |
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| Site: | Zimmer |
| Issue date: | 01/07/1982 |
| From: | Mccormick R, Rich Smith ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS - ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS OF KY |
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| NUDOCS 8201150394 | |
| Download: ML20039G218 (5) | |
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Richard McCormick and Russell Smith, being duly ed and sworn,
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I, Richard McCormick, am the Fire Chief of the Eastern Campbell County. Fire The address of the fire Department. I have been Chief for the past two years.
My home address is Route 1, department is P. O. Box 56, California, Kentucky, 4'
Box 316, California, Kentucky.
I,. Russell Smith, am a volunteer and member of the Eastern Campbell County My home address is Route 2, Box 107, California, Kentucky.
Fire Department.
The Eastern Camp-We, and each of us, state the following as our testimony.
The area we serve bell County Fire Department is an all volunteer organization.
includes the City of Mentor and lies within the 10-mile emergency plannin6 zone.
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Our There is no professional full-time fire department that services this area.
equipment consists of one fire engine, one water tank truck and one life squad.
We have 27 Our life squad operates only between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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Other than a few individuals who may be laid people listed on our volunteer roster.
= off at any 6 ven time, all of our volunteers have full-time employment outside 1
None-of our volunteers rec _sive any compensation of of the area which we serve.
During daytime hours we may have 3 to 5 people any kind for their time and work.
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available for fire fighting. During evening hours we may have as many as 20 people We have on one occasion availableforfirefightingand/orlifesquadduties.
missed a fire due to winter road conditions..
Some of our members We conduct our own fire drills three times a month.
This training is have receivad fire fighting tzsining conducted by the State.
Most of our volunteers have gone through first aid training held once a year.
This training does not include a discussion of radio-conducted by the Red Cross.
We have ten people who are certified emergency medical tech-logical injuries.
The extent of their training with regard to radiation injuries is to nicians.
treat a radiation burn as any other burn and transport the victim to a hospital.
We are not trained for the identification and segregation of radiation injury.
Ten volunteers have participated in vocational training conducted by the State.
These training events have covered the following topics: 1) ' vehicle rescue
- 2) electrical safety j) hazardous materials 4) response to a nuclear attack The last listed. training event expressly disclaimed itself in the event of war.
Ten volunteers have been through radiological as a training exercise for Zimmer.
monitoring training conducted by the State of Kentucky.
I, Richard McCormick, participated in that training. My personal observations of that training event The training was extremely technical and well above my. level of are as follows.
I believe that this was true of the other participants as well.
understanding.
The training event was useless by itself it occurred over a year ago, there has been no follow-up training and there has been no communication rec eived by I do not know how to use a dosimeter myself as to follow-up training events.
despite the training I recieved, nor do I believe that any'of the other volunt'eers If this training is meant to pro-in my department know how to use a dosimeter.
vide personnel for radiological monitoring in the event of an accident at Zimmer, the training did not accomplish its purpose. Despite the fact that I was issued a card certifying myself as a trained radiological monitor,I would not be capable The fire department of, performing such work,nor would I be willing to do so. ~
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I, Russell Smith, did not participate in such training. I would not be willin6 to assume the job of a radiological monitor if I were asked to do so assuming that I had had the required training, Neither of us have received any training with regard to decontamination of our vehicles or personnel in 'the even of a radiological accident. Neither of us, or any of our volunteers have receiv any training with regard to the distribution of KI.
We are both familiar with Campbell County's Radiological Emergency plan.
That plan calls for the Eastern Campbell County Fire Department to'be available for fire response and if capable to assist other emergency response for a variet of reasons. We do not have the equipment to do more than evacuate two burn vic-tims to St. Luke Hospital. Nowhere in the plan is other emergency response defit Specifically the plan calls for Eastern Campbell County Fire Department to assist in the evacuation of people without personal personal vehicles and people who are elderly, handicapped, confined or othenrise not capable cf evacuatin6 themselves. We do not have a list of such persons, nor do we know how or who is to identify such people.
In any event the Eastern Campbell County Fire Departmej is not capable of providing this assistance. We do not have the equipment or personnel to perform this task. Nor do we have radio communications with Zimmer or the State of Kentucky. We have one ' monitor radio linked to the Campbell Coun police dispatcher. The fire department, as a part of this assigned duty,is re-sponsible for notifying persons located at Camp Sunshine.
It is impossible for,
of us to assign this task to any one person as we have no idea who may be availai at any given time, how we would contact such a person or where either one c.f us would be.
Nor do we have any assurance that whoever would be assigned to thAt G would rot evacuate their own family first.- Neither of us can envision a percon
~ voluntarily reenterin6 the area after he has evacuated that area. In addition, the plan calls for removal of our fire apparatus to the Cold Spring Fire Departa The plan assumes that our volunteers will be available for undefined duties needed. This is an unfounded assuption. If an accident occurred during daytim@
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hours, no more than three volunteers may be available. Both of us feel that our primary responsibility in the event of any accident at Zimmer is to see that our families are evacuated safely. We feel that most of our volunteers would likewise evacuate their families before taking any other action.
I, Richard McCormick, attended the one public meeting held in Campbell County regarding the Zimmer plans.
I was personally upset with what I felt were evasive answers to legitimate concerns raised by citizens. Many questions were not answered but assurances were given that these questions would be answered be-fore Zimmer was licensed. To date, my concerns have not been responded to.
At that same meeting we were told that there would be no more public meetings held in Campbell County. Several persons raised objections and requests were made that
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another public meeting be held. No such meeting was ever held.
We have never The plan relies on the cooperation of persons such as ourselves.
Our fire been asked for any input and our concerns have consistently been ignored.
department has never been asked to participate in a drill, though we were willing to do so.
No one has explained what risks we are expected to take if we do par-ticipate or has asked us whether or not we would be willing to assume such risks.
The plan depends on electricity. The firehouse is serviced by Kentucky Utilities.
Occasional power outages by the Kentucky Utilities Company are frequent enough to be-a cause for concern.
The Campbell County plan contains the following statement:
"During an emer-gency, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS), developed from t?cplan, will be em-This ployed to respond to the emergency rather than this planning document".
Statement is essentially repeated in the Campbell County Basic Plan, Appendix B,
- p. VII-8-1, and twice in the Kentucky plan: Plan Organization, p. VI and Basic Plan, Appecdix 5, p. 5 SOPS are not included in the plans and have not been sub-mitted separately. Since the plans disavow themselves and establish-SOPS as the sine qua non of emergency planning during an emergency, and since so SOPS are con-tained in the proposed plans or have been otherwise submitted, the Eastern Campbell a
County Fire Department does not have a plan to protect the safety or personal n
e property of those residents'it serves.
Neither of us have observed any indication that other fire departments within the 10 r.ile EPZ in Kentucky have adequate plans, training and equipment to respond to a radiological emer6ency.
I, Russell Smith, have lived at my present address for 11 years.
I live on Route 10.
It has been my experience over that time during the winter months that Route 10 receives minimal road maintenance and snow removal efforts.
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R6ssell Smith Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 7th day of January,1982.
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