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Hennepin County Hazard Mitigation Risk/Vulnerability <br /> ® Possibility of rapid spread of disease <br /> o Immigrant population <br /> • Tuberculosis in recent immigrants <br /> • Difficulty communicating emergency <br /> information to non-English speaking <br /> populations <br /> o Schools <br /> • Located near pipelines and freeways <br /> • Vulnerable and possibly volatile population <br /> 3. Mitigation Opportunities <br /> • Provide shelter or safe rooms for developments with slab on <br /> grade construction <br /> • Advocate wind resistant construction <br /> • Plan, train, and exercise with schools <br /> • Move utilities underground to avoid outages during ice <br /> storms and summer storms <br /> • Purchase generators for critical facilities during power <br /> outages <br /> • Encouragement of use of NOAA weather radios — require in <br /> new developments <br /> • Formalize action to take on repetitive loss areas listed <br /> • Remove or rehabilitate repetitive loss structures <br /> 4. Current/Completed Projects <br /> • Vulnerable populations <br /> • Halls sprinkled and smoke detectors placed in senior <br /> housing and schools <br /> • Nine fire,drills held in each school during the school <br /> year <br /> • ECHO (Emergency and Community Health Outreach) <br /> will provide emergency information to non-English <br /> speaking populations <br /> ® Planning and training with school districts <br /> • Land locked_lake being pumped — Mooney Lake <br /> • St Anthony— Fordham & 39"' — holding ponds built <br /> S. RECOMMENDATION <br /> The cities of the North Suburban planning area should <br /> incorporate mitigation into other planning or policy-making <br /> 19 <br /> n-%V 14.,arvi A.0 m-t A- <br />