PITCHESS ESCAPEE SIRENS TO BE TESTED TODAY'S DRILL TO MEASURE RESPONSE TIMES FOR CREWS.Byline: Amy Raisin Darvish Staff Writer CASTAIC - Sirens intended to alert the community in the event of an inmate's escape from the Pitchess Detention Center A detention center or a detention centre is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean:
The six sirens - three are stationed on the grounds of the facility, three more in nearby neighborhoods - will sound simultaneously at approximately 9:30 a.m. for about 15 minutes. The former air-raid sirens will be heard across the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , authorities said. ``We test the sirens every six months, and we like to notify the public so they understand it's only a drill,'' said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. Sgt. Michael Waldman of the North Facility, one of four jails at the Pitchess complex. The sirens outside Pitchess are positioned at Fire Station 149 on Ridge Route The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic-Tejon Route,[2] is a narrow two-lane highway in the northern Greater Los Angeles Area of the U.S. state of California. in Castaic, on Rye Canyon Road overlooking Avenue Stanford and on Kavenagh Lane in Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. . If the sirens were sounded after a real escape, local schools would go into lockdown Lockdown A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock. Notes: These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has mode, to prevent escapees from entering the campuses. Schools have been alerted about today's training exercise and will not perform lockdowns, Waldman said. The drill will include a ``role playing'' exercise in which a deputy will dress as an inmate and escape from one of the facility's jails. The deputy will hide somewhere on the grounds as Pitchess deputies and emergency response crews try to locate him, Waldman said. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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