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Description
Documents four local Los Angeles area hospitals attempts to develop greater disaster preparedness planning. The timeline of the film indicates that Dr. Alan Finley, pediatrician at Children's Hospital at USC reached out to other area hospitals to develop a region wide inter-hospital disaster preparedness plan and then held a mock training exercise. The film them depicts an earthquake that happened after the mock training named "Explo 71", that supposedly shows the network implementing their training being put into use responding to a real disaster. After consulting newspaper accounts of the time, it turns out that the earthquake did happen in February of 1971, but the disaster planning and preparation for "Explo 71" actually took place after the earthquake. Also through research, it was determined that the radio network wasn't established as a result of the meetings depicted in this film, but predated these meetings by two years.
Type
moving image
Format
Original 16mm film
Extent
1 Reel of 1
Identifier
92-12-05 car_000029
Subject
Natural Disasters Earthquakes Disaster Prevention Governor's Office-Office of Emergency Services
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance
California State Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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