COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Emergency managers in Southern Colorado are keeping close watch on the high wind warning and the side-by-side red flag fire risk warning.
Scenarios such as blizzards, wildfires, and hazmat situations are the more obvious risks on the radar of emergency managers.
For the general public wind is a less obvious.
“It's just annoying to be in,” said one Colorado Springs resident, “I never thought of like, oh, what's the wind going to cause? I never thought of it like that.”
When gusts start to reach the 50 mile an hour plus range, emergency managers start putting in place action plans.
Wind can send objects flying with potential to hurt or damage anything in its path, power can be knocked out, vehicles pushed lane to lane, even flipped, and small flames can quickly push into large fires.
“A high wind warning is an action point. We're messaging to the community, hey, be prepared to be without power for several hours or several days, you know, make sure you're charging your devices, your durable medical equipment, checking on your neighbors.
That may have special needs or mobility issues,” said Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management, Executive Director, Andrew Notbohm.
The priority goal of emergency managers is disaster prevention and then having strategies in place to offer expedited help when disasters happen.__
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