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  • the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency holding their annual All Hazards emergency preparedness conference in the city Wednesday.

  • The director of FEMA says this week has been busy, and it's all thanks to Mother Nature.

  • Natural hazards is the threatened hazard that we deal with most often.

  • The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency says Mother Nature is once again causing big problems.

  • This week we stood up.

  • State Emergency operations center Sunday were still active and operational.

  • We have the major wind and rain event over Sunday.

  • We got 3.3 inches of rain in that short 12 toe, 15 hour time period.

  • Monsters, director of emergency management and communication, says winds in the city reached 58 miles per hour and the damage is still being cleaned up.

  • We did see a lot of tree damage.

  • We had a lot of power lines down.

  • At one point, we were up over 2200 people without power citywide, Richard Fisk says.

  • As of Wednesday, 99% of the city has power, with the exception being Holmes, who hatcheries directly fall on power lines.

  • The expectation is that everything citywide, 100% should be back up, and that's a great recovery for that amount of people that were out in the amount of damage that was sustained throughout central Mass.

  • Hundreds of people from all levels of emergency response and recovery attended me was all hazards.

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  • Center Wednesday fifth says there are many lessons applicable to the recent storm weather event, which is very common in New England.

  • It's a way for us to connect and train for the different components that are related to that was events like sheltering evacuation, traffic control.

  • We can apply the storm event over the last couple of days to what is being instructed and discussed at the conference.

the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency holding their annual All Hazards emergency preparedness conference in the city Wednesday.

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