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• The Joint Emergency Operations Center, or JEOC, located in Sacramento, California, is a 'state-of-the-art' headquarters for facilitating a rapid and coordinated response to bioterrorism, pandemic flu and other public health emergencies.

  On April 24, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger activated the JEOC in an immediate response to an outbreak of swine influenza which had infected at least seven people in the state.

• Fast Facts

  1. Located inside California Department of Health headquarters in Sacramento, California
  2. 7,000 square foot center
  3. Floor-to-ceiling video display monitors allow 20 different visual sources
  4. Allows EMSA and CDHS to coordinate plans in case of disaster
  5. Designed to support up to 80 emergency response personnel on a 24-hour basis
  6. Includes emergency satellite communications, California Mutual Aid Radio System
  7. Emergency backup amateur AM radio network hookups, Centrex phone system to handle public calls and backup emergency power in case of power failure
  8. Activated during swine flu outbreak on April 24, 2009

• Schwarzenegger Initiative

  The JEOC was built as part of Governor Schwarzenegger's campaign promise to improve the state's safety and improve their response time in the case of natural and man-made emergencies. The governor's budget plan included $61 million in state and federal funds for local and state public health, including $27.6 specifically for influenza pandemic response efforts.

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  Swine Influenza | Influenza | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Swine Flu Map

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