Arizona nuclear fallout shelters9/16/2023 Longtime Phoenix writer Jon Talton, who grew up here in the 1960s, says that in the event of a nuclear strike, the best residents could do would be to pray. Instead, the department advises citizens to maintain an emergency kit with water or food and a “go bag” with items that are necessary for a quick exit in an emergency. The ones that remain are probably couched in public buildings. Maricopa County Emergency Management There were a variety of shelters around the metro Phoenix area during the Cold War years, Miller said, but they have since been deactivated and are obsolete. The center still has skinny hallways and decontamination areas so that personnel could escape the fallout from an atomic bomb. The Emergency Operations Center of Maricopa County is cut into the rock near Papago Mountain, adjacent to the Papago Park Military Reservation. Miller's office, as it happens, was a fallout shelter during the hair-raising days of the Cold War. “We’ve received a handful of inquiries about fallout shelters from the media and general public, but it has not been a large amount,” Stephanie Miller of Maricopa County Emergency Management told Phoenix New Times in an email. Just this morning, Trump tweeted that "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely."įortunately, it seems Phoenix residents are keeping a level head, all things considered. In response to Trump's threat of "fire and fury" (which was apparently ad-libbed), the North Korean military released a statement that said it was considering a strike near the waters of Guam. and the isolated dictatorship reached a crescendo this week. It’s definitely not time to panic, but tension with North Korea has been ratcheting up over its nuclear missile capability. There might be a warning, or there might be none at all.
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