Goals, frustrations and pride were on the minds of Emergency Management Director Michael Handler and Fire Chief Jack Hennessey when they spoke with the Advertiser recently. Only a week after a tornado set down in town, the two men discussed actions to be taken in the event of crisis, as they sat in the Emergency Operation Center [EOC] in the New Canaan Police headquarters on Wednesday Oct. 10. The room was set up with 16 computers as it would be during a crisis, since a meeting had just been held with many of the representatives who would be in the room in an extreme weather event or other crisis.…
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