Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito County’s health departments are working with the California Department of Health to learn more about the health impacts of the Moss Landing Battery Plant Fire. They’ve issued a community survey to learn more.Community members who report experiencing symptoms after the Moss Landing Fire filled out the survey and are concerned about how the county will reach out to the community since the survey is anonymous. “I felt that there should be more questions than they had,” said Shiree Goins, who moved from Prunedale to Salinas due to the fire. “My symptoms started the night of the fire. They were headache and nausea.””I’m kind of agnostic. The question is, how are they going to use it?” Brian Roeder, a Prunedale resident and co-founder of the “Moss Landing Never Again” group, said. County health officials say the survey will only take a few minutes to fill out.So far they’ve received about one thousand responses. The survey is open to people in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties. Officials say the survey will help them better understand the incident, its impact on the community, any potential health effects, and how to improve future response efforts. “We’re hoping for three things. One is that it will identify things that went well during our public health response to this local emergency,” said County of Monterey Director of Public Health Director Dr. Edward Moreno. “It may tell us information that there might be some additional public health actions that we need to take at this time, and then, in addition, it may give us information to help us and make improvements for future responses to local emergencies.”Link: Fill out the surveyThe survey includes questions such as: Did you see or smell smoke?Choose the zone where you first saw or smelled smoke.Were you directly exposed to smoke, dust, debris, or other fire-related particles?Have you experienced symptoms? If so, what?Information will be released to the public after the survey closes and once the counties analyze the data.Roeder hopes the survey will be used in a way that benefits the community.”The reality is there are hundreds of people that are sick. A lot of them are already immunocompromised or had bronchial issues or other issues,” he said. “It seemed to me to be a reasonably good survey. The real question is how will they use it and how will they release it to the public, so we can maybe use it.”The survey closes on March 14.
Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito County’s health departments are working with the California Department of Health to learn more about the health impacts of the Moss Landing Battery Plant Fire. They’ve issued a community survey to learn more.
Community members who report experiencing symptoms after the Moss Landing Fire filled out the survey and are concerned about how the county will reach out to the community since the survey is anonymous.
“I felt that there should be more questions than they had,” said Shiree Goins, who moved from Prunedale to Salinas due to the fire. “My symptoms started the night of the fire. They were headache and nausea.”
“I’m kind of agnostic. The question is, how are they going to use it?” Brian Roeder, a Prunedale resident and co-founder of the “Moss Landing Never Again” group, said.
County health officials say the survey will only take a few minutes to fill out.
So far they’ve received about one thousand responses. The survey is open to people in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties.
Officials say the survey will help them better understand the incident, its impact on the community, any potential health effects, and how to improve future response efforts.
“We’re hoping for three things. One is that it will identify things that went well during our public health response to this local emergency,” said County of Monterey Director of Public Health Director Dr. Edward Moreno. “It may tell us information that there might be some additional public health actions that we need to take at this time, and then, in addition, it may give us information to help us and make improvements for future responses to local emergencies.”
The survey includes questions such as:
Did you see or smell smoke?Choose the zone where you first saw or smelled smoke.Were you directly exposed to smoke, dust, debris, or other fire-related particles?Have you experienced symptoms? If so, what?
Information will be released to the public after the survey closes and once the counties analyze the data.
Roeder hopes the survey will be used in a way that benefits the community.
“The reality is there are hundreds of people that are sick. A lot of them are already immunocompromised or had bronchial issues or other issues,” he said. “It seemed to me to be a reasonably good survey. The real question is how will they use it and how will they release it to the public, so we can maybe use it.”
The survey closes on March 14.