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Denmark Calls on Volunteers

When power and communications fail, official plans depend on reaching the right people. Danish municipalities are looking beyond their own contact lists.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 5

Municipalities should establish whom they can call, what their partners can contribute and how they will work together before a major emergency, Lone Loklindt, a senior representative of KL, Denmark’s local government association, said on November 4.

Loklindt, who chairs KL’s Culture, Business and Societal Security Committee, addressed its Total Prepared…

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