MAINE MONITOR • February 3, 2024
Franklin County officials are strategizing how to streamline resources and more quickly warn residents of impending flood hazards. “Locally, we don’t have any real instant notification to the public at all. We don’t have a software, (nor) social media page,” Farmington Town Manager Erica LaCroix said. “We have a website but it’s not updated in real time. So we were pretty much only able to notify people as they called in.’” Absent an emergency alert system, Farmington police officers and firefighters went door to door, warning businesses they should close and evacuate. “Those are things we can definitely improve on, because we don’t have that type of (notification system),” Fire Department Chief Tim Hardy said.