BOSTON (WWLP) – The Red Cross held a State House event on Wednesday, assessing the Bay State’s readiness for increasingly common natural disasters.
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Climate change is making natural disasters like hurricanes and ice storms more frequent and more devastating. While climate disasters in the Bay State are not new, experts say the state needs to increase local level emergency preparedness staff and significantly increase funding.
But on the whole, Massachusetts emergency preparedness chief officer says the state has among the best planning in the country. “I’m very confident in Massachusetts preparedness on the state and local level,” said director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, Dawn Brantley.
The results of these climate disasters, which scientists say are certain to increase, vary, but often include hundreds of thousands of miles of downed wires, billions of downed trees, and road and bridge flooding…