Hello, my name is Lorraine Koss. I am your counsel person for District 4. I'm here today with Chief Lamb. He is not only Chief of our Fire Department, but Director of our Emergency Operations. I've been getting a lot of questions and comments and good suggestions from you, and I want you to keep those coming. We're going to have time in the coming days to get those questions answered, and ‸ we're going to start today with Chief Lamb.
Chief,
during a hurricane, there are certain steps we're supposed to take. I've heard them described. ‸ It's a formula.
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One, know the risks. Two, make a plan. Three, make a kit. Four, be informed. And five, get involved. Does that apply to this situation?
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There are five different resources out there that we use during a hurricane, and certainly not all of them are applicable to this event because it is a medical emergency, but certainly a majority of them are. And I think the biggest one is know ‸ the risks are when you go out during this medical emergency. What are the things that you can do to help prevent from being at risk or putting people at risk? So certainly that's one of the things that we would encourage people to do. And how do you stay informed of that risk and the things that are going on out there is you can visit several websites. One of the best websites for our citizens here in the city of Cocoa to visit is our own city of Cocoa website.
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that you can click on. It will give you the links to the CDC's website, our local health department, which gives you up-to-date information on exactly what those risks are and knowing that ‸ risk and what to do during this event. Having a plan is really important too for even during this event because it's important that if you decide that you need to self-quarantine for those 14 days, that having that plan of how do you get your medications, who do you reach out to to have food and things delivered to you in the event that you're not going to go out if you're going to self-quarantine. So
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to get those essential services delivered to you or those essential items delivered to you or taken care of in your time of need.
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Well, during a hurricane,
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Well, right now we're not going through a hurricane. So what that means for the individual who may have to self-quarantine is what is essential
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get you through that self-quarantine 14 day spurt that you're going through. It may mean getting extra food to ensure within 14 days, you don't have to go out and visit one of the local establishments to
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have those important phone numbers or contacts like your doctor's office, family members, have those things ready and available to you. So again, when you self-quarantine, you are truly doing what you can to help flatten the curve and then getting involved. How can we get involved? And a lot of people ‸ ask on a daily basis, well, I'm quarantined at home. Can I really get involved? Well, sure you can. And you're already getting involved by self-quarantining yourself at home because you are eliminating the threat of getting one of our
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infected or subject to being infected by this COVID-19. So just that one simple ability for you to quarantine yourself at home by self-quarantine, you're getting involved by saying, look, I'm going to do whatever I can do to flatten this curve and help my community get better and help us as a nation as a whole to get better and really kick this thing out and
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Well, thank you so much, Chief Lamb for answering those questions. And this has been really good for me and for the questions and comments, the suggestions I'm
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I hope you will keep those coming.