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The City of Palm Beach Gardens invited all of its residents to a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Emergency Operations and Communications Center in 2011, held in the evening near Veterans Plaza at the City Hill complex on Military Trail.

The Emergency Operations Center, seen here under construction, has reinforced concrete block walls and two inches of concrete on its roof. It sits behind a stage between City Hall and the police department and is designed to withstand upper Category…

With hurricane season now underway one local city is doing what it can to make sure it's prepared for possible storms. Emergency officials with Palm Beach Gardens held a mock hurricane drill scenario and practiced the roles that everyone would have…

Packing category 3 winds, Hurricane Havoc slammed into Frenchman's Reserve on Monday morning, flooding streets, damaging homes and knocking out power in the residential community off Hood Road. That was the simulation faced by city police, fire and…

2004’s Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne may not have been Category 5 hurricanes when they hit this area, but they were threatening enough for the city of Palm Beach Gardens to start researching options for a Category 5-protected emergency…

The new Emergency Operations Center (EOC), dedicated on June 7, 2011, provides a secure, high-tech, 10,000-square-foot fortress. It was designed to withstand hurricane force winds of up to 205 mph so as to house all government and emergency response…