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Salinas emergency operations plan update
The Salinas City Council updated its emergency operations plan for the first time in over a decade.
Salinas Fire Chief Samuel Klemek presented the new plan at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
"I will start off by just sharing with you that the last time this plan was updated was in 2015," said Klemek.
California law requires local governments to comply with the Statewide Emergency Management System. It’s the structure that decides how disasters like floods or fires are dealt with at city, county and state levels.
"Our emergency operations plan is how the city itself organizes, communicates, provides public safety, and how it recovers during emergencies," said Klemek.
The new plan addresses issues that weren't identified in the last one – like cyberattacks and pandemics. And it ranks local hazards by risk level. The top three for Salinas: drought, earthquake, and cyberattack.
The council will now update the plan every three years.
Iran war driving up fuel costs
A Brown University Iran War Energy Cost Tracker estimates the war has added nearly $500 in additional fuel costs to California households.
The tracker estimates average gasoline costs in California have gone up by about a $1.60 since the start of the war. Nationally, diesel costs about $2.60 more.
But UC Berkeley Energy Institute expert Lucas Davis says other events have also affected fuel prices, including Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries and the United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.
That reporting from our partners at CapRadio
