{"id":223920,"date":"2021-04-21T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=223920"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:48:47","slug":"kirking-schafer-now-in-stutsman-county-emerg-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=223920","title":{"rendered":"After 32 years Emergency Manager Bergquist retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist is winding down his 32 years of service, heading for retirement, and he\u2019s working with his successors.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jerry said he will be on hand at his office the next few weeks, giving advice to the newly hired Stutsman County Emergency Manger, Andrew Kirking, and Assistant Emergency Manager, and Communications Administrator, (former 9-1-1 Coordinator title) Riley Schafer.\u00a0 His official retirement will come near the end of June this year.\u00a0 He said after that he will be available to consult with Andrew and Riley.<\/p>\n

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\"\"On our show, Andrew said he comes to Jamestown, following education in Emergency Management at NDSU, and recently the Pembina County Emergency Manager for eight years.<\/p>\n

He noted he\u2019s continuing to stay up to date on technology changes, while learning \u201cin the field,\u201d and receiving advice and training on the job from Jerry Bergquist.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Riley Schafer said has a degree in Business from Valley City State University, and then decided to go into law enforcement.\u00a0 He spent two years as a sheriff\u2019s deputy in McHenry County, ND and then a year as a Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy.\u00a0 He\u2019s also been in contact with FEMA officials, learning information from them.<\/p>\n

He said he decided to apply for the Assistant Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Communication Administrator as he and Andrews Kirking were approved to be hired by the Stutsman County Commission.\u00a0 He and Andrew are also working together now for future adventures in both of their positions.<\/p>\n

Jerry Bergquist also reminded viewers and listeners that the week of April 26t<\/sup> has been designated, \u201cSevere Summer Weather Awareness Week,\u201d for the entire state of North Dakota.\u00a0 This annual event is intended to remind the public of the dangers associated with severe summer weather including lightning, high winds, large hail, flash floods and tornadoes. All of which, can cause severe property damage, personal injury, and even death.\u00a0 It is also the opportunity for family to discuss what they will go and where the will meet to be safe during a severe weather event, if they are separated, between home, work, school, or other activities.<\/p>\n

Those living in mobile homes should also have arrangement made to head to a safe structure.<\/p>\n

\"\"Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Jerry Bergquist says, as part of the awareness week activities, Stutsman County will conduct a tornado exercise that will begin at about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 28th<\/sup><\/u><\/strong>. The exercise will simulate what occurs locally when a tornado warning is issued by the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

The tornado exercise will be testing internal notification procedures county-wide along with siren activation capabilities.\u00a0 Sirens will be activated in many area communities including the Cities of Jamestown, Buchanan, Cleveland, Medina and Streeter.\u00a0 In most communities, sirens will be activated for approximately 3 minutes.<\/p>\n

Because the National Weather Service will not directly be involved with the exercise, the simulated warning will not<\/u> be broadcast through the National Weather Service all-hazards weather radio system.\u00a0 The Emergency Alert System (EAS) for local AM\/FM radio stations and cable television providers will not<\/u> be activated. The Stutsman Alert\u2019s notification system powered by Everbridge will also not<\/u> be activated for this test.<\/p>\n

The most common reason a community\u2019s warning sirens are activated is to warn the public of a possible tornado.\u00a0 However, sirens could also be activated to alert the public of other types of events that could be a danger to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist is winding down his 32 years of service, heading for retirement, and he\u2019s working with his successors. On Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jerry said he will be on hand at his office the next few weeks, giving advice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223920"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224008,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223920\/revisions\/224008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}