18 Quotes by Mary Austin

We try to vary the drills every year to test different parts of our response efforts.

The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe.

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective relationship.

So wide is the range of the scavengers that it is never safe to say, eyewitness to the contrary, that there are few or many in such a place.

They felt our system plan worked very well but communications could have been improved,

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.

You know, the chances of there being a nuclear or biological event in Monroe are slim but there is a chance of a chemical disaster simply because of all the industries we have in the area that use a wide variety of chemicals, ... So this really reinforces the importance of our ability to collaborate with other agencies.

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.