NorCal Coronavirus Emergency Center Ready To Go

PENINSULA AND SOUTH BAY, CA — With confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in San Mateo, Santa Clara and other Bay Area counties, an emergency operations center is ready to be activated.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office has overseen local emergencies from swine flu to power shutoffs in the past and is currently monitoring the spread of the new coronavirus from the confines of its East Bay emergency center in Dublin, KRON reported.

Local county officials will be coordinating their emergency response with emergency officials in the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which is the emergency manager for the California region from Monterey County north through the Bay Area, and all the way to the Oregon border along the coast.

Officials are currently checking for updates and social media rumors locally and globally about the virus, KRON reported. Officials track coronavirus's spread on wall monitors and are ready to activate at any moment, should things progress.

The sheriff's office said its Office of Emergency Services oversees a deputy reserve team, mounted posse, search and rescue team, air squadron, communications team and underwater recovery team, available to respond to emergencies 24/7.

The sheriff's office coordinates law enforcement response throughout the region, should an emergency arise, with officials in the following counties: Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin, San Francisco, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey.

The Emergency Operations Center opened in 1996 and was named the Grubensky-Riley Building in honor of an Oakland police officer and fire battalion chief who died in the 1991 East Bay Hills Fire.

Read more at KRON.