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                                <div class="subscriber-preview"><p>HIGHLAND — County and local emergency management officials say they're prepared to respond to a large-scale disaster, like the one currently ravaging south Texas.</p></div><div class="subscriber-preview"><p>They credit much of that preparedness to the bevy of volunteers in the Region trained to respond to emergencies.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only"><p>About 50 of those volunteers attended a training Tuesday hosted by the Highland Police Department at the Lincoln Community Center. The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has left more than 12 people dead and cities flooded in the Houston area, wasn't far from anyone's mind.</p></div><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center hidden-sm hidden-md hidden-lg"><div style="min-height:250px; min-width:300px;" class="tnt-ads dfp-ad" data-dfp-adunit="/8438/nwitimes.com/news/local" data-dfp-custom-pos="fixed-big-ad-top, atf, 50" id="fixed-big-ad-top-mobile" data-dfp-size="[300,250]"></div></div>
    <div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print"></div><div class="subscriber-only"><p>"Right now what's going on in Texas is a perfect example of how us coming together is going to help us all out," Highland police Sgt. Glenn Cox said. "Let's keep those guys down there in our thoughts, in our prayers."</p></div><div class="subscriber-only"><p>Tuesday's training for Volunteers in Police Service, or VIPS, touched on severe-weather spotting and traffic management. Local attendees were from Highland, Griffith, Munster, Schererville, Crown Point, Hammond, Cedar Lake, Michigan City and LaPorte.</p></div><div class="subscriber-only"><p>"They'll help us with traffic control and blocking roads so police can focus on truly lifesaving efforts," said Highland police Cmdr. John Banasiak, noting there are likely hundreds of VIPS volunteers in Northwest Indiana. "You don't have enough policemen. Nobody does. In Houston there's still not enough there."</p></div><div class="subscriber-only"><p>Jodi Richmond, director of Lake County Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said the county learned lessons from the 2008 flooding that left much of the Region underwater.</p></div><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center "><div style="min-height:1px; min-width:4px;" class="tnt-ads dfp-ad" data-dfp-adunit="/8438/nwitimes.com/news/local" data-dfp-custom-pos="fixed-inline-video, stf" id="fixed-inline-video" data-dfp-size="[4,1]" data-lazy="true"></div></div>
    <div class="subscriber-only"><p>That event taught her that the county has to have a better plan in place for long-term recovery, how to bring back a sense of normalcy after the initial disaster has passed. The county has been holding long-term recovery training.</p></div><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center hidden-sm hidden-md hidden-lg"><div style="min-height:250px; min-width:300px;" class="tnt-ads dfp-ad" data-dfp-adunit="/8438/nwitimes.com/news/local" data-dfp-custom-pos="fixed-big-ad-middle, stf" id="fixed-big-ad-middle-mobile" data-dfp-size="[300,250]"></div></div>
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