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<br />e <br /> <br />Organizational Characteristic 15 <br />Ongoing Monitoring for Potential <br />Disasters <br /> <br />Additional Thoughts <br /> <br />. Bus drivers, police officers, public works employees, and other personnel with <br />radio-equipped vehicles could be trained and used as observers, e.g., "weather <br />spotters." <br /> <br />. Monitoring could be accomplished by a neighboring community on a cooperative <br />or contract basis. <br /> <br />. The jurisdiction may be unaware that neighboring communities depend on it for <br />the monitoring function. <br /> <br />. Warning indicators may not exist for some types of disasters - a mid-air collision, <br />for example. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. It is possible for individual departments of a local government to know of a <br />disaster potential or actual disasters (fire and police departments, for example), <br />without the jurisdiction as a whole being aware of the situation. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Characteristics of Effective Emergency Management Organization Structures <br /> <br />84 <br />