Good Afternoon Menlo Park and MPFPD Officials,
Attached is A Menlo Park Storms After Action Report
(AAR) for the three recent storm events that affected
Menlo Park.
I have been a resident of Menlo Park since 1977.
I have a 41-year experience in preparing AARs at
Stanford University in Facilities Engineering and a
25-year experience in disaster response with Menlo
Park, Stanford, MPFPD and Atherton.
If I were a city official, police or fire official, or public
works official I would use this document to better
prepare for the next city-wide emergency or disaster.
Real, unvarnished data will give you the ability to
respond on our behalf in a most timely and effective
manner going forward. I will always passionately
encourage you to use our Menlo Park citizens as
as able-bodied resource after they have been
trained to support you.
This AAR not address an additional effects of an
earthquake incident that would include damage
buildings, injuries with no city resources, police,
fire and EMT response for three to seven days.
This intense energy and vocal expression of the
East Palo Alto and Belle Haven residents during
the PG&E response review meeting should be
a clarion call to a city response review, better
preparedness, best practices and an actionable
operational plan going forward.
Emergency preparedness and response is the
foundation upon which all city activity extends
in times of normal operation.
Other pertinent emergency preparedness and
response documents are also attached.
Respectfully, Tom.
