The Upper Austrian municipalities are given guidelines on how to prepare for a blackout and how to act in this case. In general, the “blackout emergency plan” presented on Monday sees the municipalities as the first point of contact for citizens. There should be self-help bases in every community. They are the contact point for medical care and for the delivery of relief supplies and other urgently needed things.
Each municipality receives two folders – one with an alarm and action plan and one with documents that the municipality itself has yet to prepare and communicate to the population. The details of the preparation depend on the respective local conditions – for example whether there is a kindergarten, a nursing home or other important public facilities, explained the responsible regional councilor Michaela Langer-Weninger (ÖVP). As a guideline, it is assumed that a blackout could last up to 14 days. The President of the Oö. Civil Protection Association, Michael Hammer, also sees the “private provision and stockpiling by the population” as a central element. Communication will probably take place via “the good old siren”, a crank radio is advisable. The pandemic and the Ukraine war have raised awareness here, but according to Hammer, rural households are generally better prepared than those in the city.
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