What should you do?ĭon’t come to the Papago Buttes. So let’s say there actually is nuclear fallout in the Phoenix area. 'So if there were to be a situation, we can monitor folks' radiation doses, monitor what’s happening to them and take actions to get them shelter and keep them safe,' Coleman said. Having America’s largest plant in Arizona means teams prepare for worst-case scenarios. Coleman says their team is more prepared for nuclear fallout than most, and it’s thanks to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. This piece of history has been transformed into the county emergency offices now. You have a plan and are able to do so,' Coleman said. Have that go bag ready, have prescription papers, have it ready is if you needed to evacuate. Coleman says there’s renewed public interest in retired fallout shelters after Russia’s President declared a nuclear alert amid the war in Ukraine.Ĭoleman’s advice for everyone is the same as if the risk were floods or wildfires. This is where county and city governments would run things during the Cold War if the bomb dropped.

'These were if water ran out or depending on the amount of people you had down here,' Coleman said. All, a bleak reality of surviving nuclear fallout. Original bandages, supplies, gas masks, World War II-era cots, cases of the original emergency drinking water. He gave FOX 10 a tour of the 1950s fallout shelter and the remnants left behind. 'It’s literally built into the side of Papago Butte,' said Ron Coleman with the Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management.

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