Training exercises and an increased social media presence are among the 2019 plans for the Geary County Emergency Management Office.

One event will be a mass casualty exercise involving a bus and a semi-truck at a site to be determined. A highway will not be closed, but Emergency Management Director Garry Berges indicated a parking lot will probably be used. “Because with the amount of traffic on interstate, with the semi’s going back and forth, with the big vehicles, plus a lot of school buses, activity buses are up and down interstate, up and down 77. ”

Berges noted there have been school bus accidents all over the state.

The Emergency Management Office is also planning more of a social media presence in 2019. They want to establish a Facebook page and Twitter feed for Emergency Management and Rural Fire. A new administrative assistant could help with that project.