Montgomery Mayor Evaluates City’s Emergency Response To Inclement Weather
The worst of the winter blast exited the Capitol City Wednesday night. City offices were back open in Montgomery Thursday afternoon, after much of the road conditions in the city improved.
“This was an event that could have been a lot more serious than it was” said Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange, evaluating city’s emergency response to the winter storm.
Strange, along with Emergency Management officials, met Thursday afternoon to lay out some of the areas they say response teams plan to improve in. “We will learn from it but we are not out there apologizing for all of the accidents and the traps and the deaths that could have occurred” explained the Mayor.
Over the course of the storm, emergency officials took part in a continuous effort to keep drivers safe on the roads. The mayor said it played a role in the relatively low number of car accidents related to icy conditions. However, the mayor said crews need better communication when it comes to treating icy roads, and possibly more equipment.
“We’ve got sanding equipment now but that’s about the extent of it” said Strange, “we’re not in a position to spend five or ten million dollars for a crew but if we could get equipment for a few hundred thousand then we probably will be doing that”.
