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Camden County Jail Program Available to Dig Out Elderly & Disabled
Residents
For Immediate Release: January 27, 2009
Contacts: RON TOMASELLO
(CAMDEN) – Camden County’s Senior Snow
Removal Program is ready to deal with significant snow accumulations
to help infirm elderly and disabled residents get out of their homes
for necessities, such as prescriptions or doctors’ visits.
The program uses Camden County Jail inmates who are carefully screened,
non-violent offenders who are guarded at all times on the job site.
This is the twelfth consecutive winter the Freeholders
are offering a snow removal program for at-risk Senior Citizens
and disabled residents. It is coordinated by Freeholder Joseph Ripa,
liaison to the Department of Corrections and Camden County Division
of Emergency Management.
Please note the Senior Snow Removal Program has
specific guidelines that will go into effect after each snowstorm
of 4 or more inches of accumulation. At-risk elderly or disabled
residents must adhere to the following procedures each time:
- The Snow Removal Program will go into effect
only AFTER 4 inches of snow have fallen on the ground in our area
- At that time, at-risk senior and disabled residents
can contact the Camden County Division of Emergency Management
at (856) 783-4808 ext. 5060, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
- Calls for snow removal will not be taken until
after it has stopped snowing.
- Work Crews will be dispatched only after it
has stopped snowing. The work crews will remove snow only during
daylight hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Crews will respond to calls in the order they
are received and will service as many residents as possible each
day. There are no guaranteed times when the crews will arrive
at a residence.
The Department of Corrections will supply the needed
equipment. The program does not supply salt or ice-melting chemicals,
but crews will dispense them if supplied by residents. Contact and
conversation between the inmates and the public are prohibited.
Gratuities and gifts or money, food, drink or any other item is
strictly prohibited.
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