Welcome to the City of Plantation's Podcast. In this Inaugural Episode, Chief Joel Gordon, the PIO for the Plantation Fire Department, explains the course for this Podcast series. This Podcast is aimed at keeping the residents of Plantation informed regarding how the City and its various Departments are responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please subscribe to this podcast, as we will be producing new episodes on a regular basis.
Host: Deputy Chief Joel Gordon, PIO
Production: Division Chief Ezra Lubow
Music: Hall of Receptions - Cercles Nouvelles (licensed through Epidemic Sounds)
Cover Art: The City of Plantation
Transcription:
Hello Plantation residents. My name is Joel Gordon and I'm deputy chief with the Plantation Fire Department, and we're introducing our inaugural city of Plantation Covid 19 podcasts.
The purpose of these is to make sure that you, as Plantation residents, remain safe and healthy throughout the entire covid 19 Outbreak. So what are we going to do here?
We're gonna be producing these podcasts to make sure that you, as Plantation residents stay informed and get the latest and most accurate information regarding not only the Covid19 Outbreak, but what, we in Plantation, are doing to make sure that you stay safe and healthy. We want to make sure that you are making good decisions based upon accurate and correct information.
We're going to do everything we can to provide you with the most accurate information we have available, as well as reducing and eliminating where possible. Any of the rumors that are out there that are not true regarding Covid.
How are we going to do this? We're gonna be putting these out on a regular basis, and we're not only going to talk to you, but we're going to get some of the experts out there to speak to you as well. We're going to start with our own Mayor, Lynn Stoner, who's going to give you an overview of the City; what's happening and what is being done citywide to take actions accordingly. We're gonna try and reach out and get hold of an epidemiologist, a person who's responsible for and who treats infectious diseases to make sure that you're getting the most accurate information about the disease progress itself. We're going to speak to both our Police and Fire Chiefs about what they're doing as far as operations go within the City, what we're doing to enforce the executive orders, what we're doing to follow the Governor's directions and what we're doing to respond to your emergency calls. We're also gonna reach out to other city officials that are impacted by the outbreak, including such people as the Parks and Rec Director, the Utilities Director and many of the others who operate and perform functions within the City that impact you during this outbreak.
So maybe you want to know how often we're gonna put out these updates. We're gonna put them out as regularly as is appropriate. The first few we're gonna put out right away to make sure that your updated on the latest information. And then as things change and as they progress we’ll be putting out new and complete updates.
How can you find out about them? We're gonna put out alerts on all the information that we've been distributing on a daily basis. Remember that we do updates at 10 o'clock, and four. Every day we post updates to our website and to all our social media outlets as well. So if you pay attention to those, if you follow those, you'll know when and where you can tune in for the latest podcasts that are available in the future.
We plan to do a number of other things as well as give you the opportunity to ask questions. We're gonna have a program available where you can ask questions off line. You can send your questions to AskCityHall @ Plantation.org or and we will answer them live on one of our podcasts
