County gets mobile command center
♦ Large vinyl tent could be used as warming or cooling station, command central, or triage area.
Harold Bloom, author of ‘Anxiety of Influence,’ dies at 89
Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standardbearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died at age 89.
Bloom’s wife, Jeanne, said that he had been failing health, although he continued to write books and was teaching as recently as last week. Yale says Bloom died at a New Haven, Connecticut, hospital.
Bloom wrote more than 20 books and prided himself on making scholarly topics accessible to the general reader.
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Tim Herrington, head of Floyd County Emergency Management, gives the Rome City Commission a look Monday night at the agency’s shared Mobile Command Center that also can be used as a warming or cooling station during emergencies. The 15-by-20-foot, thick vinyl structure worth about $10,000 can be erected within 3 minutes, Herrington said.
Floyd County’s Emergency Management office scored an inflatable Mobile Command Center for use in emergencies or natural disasters with a $10,000 grant.
Tim Herrington, head of the local EMA, showed off the 15-by-20-foot, thick, vinyl structure to the Rome City Commission Monday during their 5 p.m. caucus.
“It can be erected in 3 minutes,” Herrington said of the white, blue and yellow building he’d set up on the side lawn of City Hall. “It can be used as a central command center or as a warming or cooling station for first responders.”
Although the command center is part of the Region C Healthcare Preparedness and Safety Coalition that will be shared with seven other counties within the region, Floyd County gets first dibs since the local office put in for the grant first, Herrington said.
“We’ll apply for another $10,000 grant for a second one next year,” Herrington said.
He said the grant only covered the building itself, not the warming or cooling mechanism or any other amenities. Those would be another $10K.
Claudia Hamilton, of Livingproof Recovery and the Homelessness Task Force, asked Herrington if it’s something that could be used to provide warmth for the homeless during colder months.
Herrington said that while it could be used as a warming station for a brief time, it might not be something that could be used in that manner for an extended period of time. If it was used for sleeping quarters or for medical purposes, it could hold up to 15 cots, he added.
When it’s deflated and not in use, it will be kept in the EMA bus. If the county gets a second unit, it can be attached to the first one for a larger use or the two could be used in separate locations. It also could be attached to an RV trailer.
A pedestrian walking on the bypass in the early morning hours Tuesday was struck and killed in the Cedartown area, according to a release from Georgia State Patrol.
Officials from GSP reported that 45-year-old Robert Dewaine Allen of a Cedartown address was struck and killed at 4:52 a.m. near Cedartown High School on the U.S. 27 bypass by a 2010 Toyota Tundra pickup.
According to the release, Allen was “improperly walking in the right southbound lane” when he was struck.
He was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. on the scene by Polk County Coroner Tony Brazier due to the significant trauma as a result of being struck by the truck.
The coroner stated that his body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab.
GSP’S Cartersville post was called in to investigate the incident by local officials, who responded to provide emergency aid. No additional information was available at this time.
Cedartown Police, Fire and Rescue and additional local agencies responded to help Allen at the scene.