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The Reedley Exponent A2 Thursday, September 6, 2018
BBB advises to people to prepare for impending disasters
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“Disasters Happen. Prepare Now. Learn How.”
That is the theme of this year’s National Preparedness Month. Na- tional Preparedness Month provides an opportunity to remind everyone to prepare themselves and their fami-
lies now, and throughout the year. National Preparedness Month is sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency within the De- partment of Homeland Security, and it’s part of a governmental effort to strengthen Americans’ preparedness capabilities, whether a terrorist at- tack strikes, or a natural disaster hits.
The Better Business Bureau partners with FEMA and the Depart- ment of Homeland Security (Ready. gov) to offer tips on how to fully pre- pare for a disaster.
• Make and Practice Your Plan — Disasters don’t plan ahead, but you can. Start by making an emergency plan with everyone in the home.
Put together a plan by discussing four different questions with your family, friends or household to begin your emergency plan. Discuss how you will receive emergency alerts and warnings, what your shelter plan is, your evacuation route, and the household communication plan.
It’s best to practice your escape
plan with your family, including ani- mals, at least twice a year so you are fully prepared when disaster strikes.
Fill out an emergency plan at ready.gov/make-a-plan, and share with everyone in your family/household.
• Learn life saving skills — Learn- See PREPARE on page A3
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A sign announcing the future site of Dopkins Funeral Chapel in in place at the field on Reed Avenue between Herbert and Floral avenues, across the road from the Reedley Cemetery.
Commission to vote on revised funeral home
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Staff Report
On Thursday, Sept. 6, the Reedley Planning Commis- sion will discuss and vote on a conditional use permit and environmental assessment for a revised version of the proposed Dopkins Funeral Home across the road from Reedley Cemetery.
The commission’s meet- ing will begin at 5 p.m. in the Reedley Council Chambers, 845 G St.
The permit and environ- ment is for a 7,980 square foot funeral home with a chapel, crematory, detached gather- ing/event center, a pet crema- tory, and above-ground niches for cremated remains. The fa- cility is located on three acres at 2200 South Reed Ave., be- tween West Herbert and East Floral avenues.
The project’s permit was
Obituaries
Marcelina Beltran
Marcelina Beltran of Sacramento died Aug. 26 at her residence. She was 108.
Mrs. Beltran was a homemaker.
She is survived by sev- en children and numerous grandchildren and great-
approved by the Planning Commission in May 2015 and been renewed every year since. The site plan has substantially changed since the 2015 approval, so Dop- kins has submitted another application for a CUP.
In addition to the near-8,000 square foot fu- neral home, the event center will be about 3,200 square feet while the pet crematory is nearly 1,300 square feet. An adjoining garage/mainte- nance building is about 1,150 square feet while the above- ground niches for cremated remains are incorporated into a designed landscaped gardens on the property. The funeral home would be built first, with the event center part of phase two.
The project is consistent with the city’s 2030 general plan.
grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 9
a.m. and Rosary at 9:30 a.m. followed by a Mass on Friday, Sept. 7, at the old St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Reed- ley. Burial will follow at Reedley Cemetery.
Fresno County Sheriffs Deputies Eric Unruh, Uriel Mejia and Chad Stokes looked on as their inflatable pontoon boat was lowered into the Kings River underneath the Goodfellow Avenue bridge on Sept. 2.
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ties continue to see on the river is inexperienced float- ers who have consumed too much alcohol and don’t know how to swim.
Although the depart- ment has a good response time on the water, several factors can present dangers for both the people stuck in the trees as well as deputies themselves.
“Just last weekend we had close to six people — a handful of them who didn’t know how to swim — and they got caught up on a rock island,” said Unruh.
Those people he said, were stuck in a shallow area surrounded by vegetation. Trying to gain access to them became challenging and dan- gerous for the deputies.
“Usually they [the people stuck on the river] can assist us with the rescuing because what we’ll do is we have a long extension pole, it looks like a pool sweep, and they’ll grab onto that and we’ll pull them in and they can assist by kicking their feet or help- ing swim toward the boat,” he said. “But if they’re com- pletely panicked, intoxicated, and they don’t know how to swim, it makes it very diffi- cult. We can still do [the res-
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A stretch of the Kings River north of Goodfellow Avenue was the site where six people were caught on a rock island and had to be rescued the weekend of Aug. 24-25.
cue], obviously, but it makes it very difficult to get them out of the water to safety.”
Stokes added that be- cause of increasing dangers they have become more pro- active in trying to educate people before they get in the water.
“We contact people to-
ward the top of the river and we usually give them a safety presentation,” he said. “What they need to look for and ways that they can bet- ter maneuver their rafts along the waterways.”
Even with these safety precautions, the deputies said alcohol is major con- tributing factor that gets people in trouble while on the water.
“I can tell you that the people that we contact at the top of the river, when they first get in and start drink- ing, are completely differ- ent people that we talk to at the bottom of the river when they’re completely drunk several hours later,” Stokes said.
“There have been several
times that we’ve had to carry people from the shore [who] were just completely blacked out uninjured from any- thing having to do with the river, just being completely blacked out on alcohol where if someone had not pulled them to shore they would have just drowned.”
For those planning to vis- it the Kings River either this season or next, Stokes said it is important to keep safety precautions at the top of the list — wearing life jackets, learning to swim and con- suming less alcohol.
“The river wants to go fast and straight,” said Stokes. “This is not a lazy float down the river, so any- one who comes down to expe- rience it needs to be ready.”
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