OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE
THE NEED FOR FALLOUT SHELTERS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DESIGN OF ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION SCHOOLS BEING MOST IMPORTANT
WILLIAM FLOYD HIGH SCHOOL
BECOMES FIRST IN NATION INCORPORATING A FALLOUT SHELTER AND EXTRA SAFEGUARDS AGAINST BLAST AND FALLOUT FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS DURING SCHOOLDAYS AND AT NIGHT THE SHIRLEY MASTIC RESIDENTS, JUST ABOUT EVERY RESIDENCE BELOW 27a OLD SUNRISE HIGHWAY HAS NO BASEMENTS FOR PROTECTION SINCE THE MAJORITY OF HOMES ARE WITHIN 10 MILES FROM THE BAY AND OCEAN AND THE WATER LEVEL WILL NOT PERMIT BASEMENTS
SUFFOLK SCHOOL TAKES NUCLEAR WAR SERIOUSLY
PLANS FOR ALL NEW SCHOOLS BUILT IN SUFFOLK COUNTY TO INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIAL TO CREATE LARGE FALLOUTSHELTERS WITHIN SCHOOLS WITH PF-FACTORS OVER 100
ONE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT WERE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR DESIGN OF A NEW SCHOOL THAT INCORPORATED A FALLOUT SHELTER
THIS PANEL LISTED THE BUILDINGS RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR DESIGN AND THE NEW YORK CITY LONG ISLAND AREA HAD 3 BUILDINGS THAT WERE RECOGNIZED OUT OF HUNDREDS OF DESIGNS NATION WIDE |
ON THE PANEL FROM THE FALLOUT SHELTERS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION YOU CAN SEE THAT LONG ISLAND (SUFFOLK CO.) IS LISTED AND NEW YORK CITY (KINGS CO.)
THIS CIVIL DEFENSE PAMPHLET THAT OUTLINED WHAT THE DISPLAY PANELS ABOVE WERE PART OF WAS HARD TO FIND AND THAT THE BOOKLET SHOWS THE SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIAL SHELTER TYPES WITH INFORMATION, THE CIVIL DEFENSE MUSEUM .COM HAD PURCHASED A CIVIL DEFENSE DISPLAY AND THE PANELS TO IT WERE ASSEMBLED AND PUT ON DISPLAY IN GOVT. BUILDINGS, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES EXPLAINING HOW FALLOUT SHELTERS CAN BE ADDED TO NEW CONSTRUCTION WITH MINIMAL COST AND GAVE EXAMPLES OF AWARD WINNG DESIGNS OF RECENT CONSTRUCTION, I SEARCHED AROUND TRYING TO FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THE 3 LOCATIONS SHOWN ON THE PANEL THAT IS YELLOW AND SHOWS THE UNITED STATES WITH SMALL FALLOUT SHELTER ICONS, AND PROVIDES A LISTING, THE OCD PAMPHLET GOES INTO DETAIL ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND THE WINNING EXAMPLES.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FELT THE NEED OF PROTECTION FROM NUCLEAR ATTACK DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE AEC NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST FACILITY OR BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, THEY TESTED WHAT FALLOUT DOES TO THE ENVIROMENT AND WERE PART OF THE LARGER ATOMIC TESTS IN THE PACIFIC AND EXPIREMENTED ON THE ISLAND PEOPLE OF THE AREA EXPOSED TO RADIATION NEVER TREATING THESE PEOPLE JUST STUDYING THEM, ALSO THEY NUKED A LARGE AREA OF PINE BARRENS ON LAB PROPERTY BY INSTALLING CESIUM 137 OR OTHER RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT FOUND IN FALLOUT BY PUTTING IT IN A CONTAINER ON A POLE AND UNSHIELDED THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL REMOTELY AND STUDIED THE DIE OFF OF TREES AND WILDLIFE AND OTHER PLANTS AND FOLIAGE AND IT IS STILL THERE AND THE AREA IS TOO RADIOACTIVE TO HANG AROUND FOR ANY POINT OF TIME, A DEFINITE TARGET ON THE SOVIETS
NUCLEAR TARGETING PACKAGE,
SCHOOLS ARE BUILT BETTER THAN ARMORYS ON LONG ISLAND
EXAMPLES OF HOW FALLOUT SHIELDING CAN BE ACHIEVED BY MATERIAL AND FLOOR PLANS
THE SCHOOLS ALSO SHOWED HOW MINIMAL IN COST IT WAS TO ADD THE FALLOUT SHELTER SINCE STOCKING AND OTHER ISSUES WERE TAKEN CARE OF BY THE OFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE
THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER PLAN OF THE
EARLY 1960s WAS BACKED BY US GOVT. FUNDING. THE NEED NOT ONLY FOR MORE COMMUNITY SHELTER SPACE WAS NEEDED BUT ALSO SCHOOLS HAD OBLIGATIONS TO GUARANTEE EVERY CHILDS SAFETY SO AS SCHOOLS WERE BUILT FALLOUT SHELTER SPACE WAS NEEDED AND PLANNED FOR. NYS GOV. NELSON ROCKEFELLER WAS A CIVIL DEFENSE ADVOCATE AND PUSHED MANY CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAMS ON NEW YORKERS DURING THE 1960s AND SUFFOLK COUNTY A SUBURB OF NYC WAS GROWING VERY RAPIDLY DURING THOSE YEARS AND SHIRLEY A TOWN 58 MILES TO THE EAST BUILT THEIR NEW SCHOOL WITH FALLOUT PROTECTION IN MIND AND BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST TO DO SO AND WAS MENTIONED IN ONE OF THE LAST GREAT PUSHES OF CIVIL DEFENSE IN AMERICA AND THE ABOVE LITERATURE ON THE NFSP AND WHAT IT WAS ABOUT LISTED THEIR EFFORT, AND THE WILLIAM FLOYD SCHOOL DISTRICT BECAME A ROLE MODEL TO OTHER SCHOOLS IN AMERICA BUT ON LONG ISLAND ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOLLOWED THEIR LEAD AND STOCKED SCHOOLS WITH THE ABOVE SUPPLIES AND INCORPORATED A SHELTER AND LIKE MOST SCHOOLS ON LONG ISLAND WERE BUILT DURING THAT ERA LARGE BRICK AND MARBLE CONSTRUCTION THICK CINDERBLOCK BRICK CONSTRUCTION THAT WAS NOT ONLY FOR PROTECTION DURING THE DAY FOR CHILDREN THESE SCHOOLS BECAME THE NEIGHBORHOOD FALLOUT SHELTER FOR ALL HOURS, THE TYPE OF SCHOOLS BUILT DURING THE COLD WAR OFFERED NOT ONLY FALLOUT PROTECTION BUT WERE BLAST RESISTANT TO A POINT AND THESE SCHOOLS HAVE OPENED AS SHELTERS DURING NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY CRISES LIKE INNOCULATION SITES DURING THE 1977 SWINE FLU OUTBREAK AND THE COUNTY LISTED THEM ON THEIR CSP AS PLACES TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR ATTACK, THESE NEW COLD WAR ERA CONSTRUCTION BUILDINGS WERE BUILT LIKE MUS..EUMS AND THE SCHOOL I WENT TO OVER 30 YRS AGO IS STILL IN THE SAME SHAPE TODAY.AND ALL ARE MARKED AS COMMUNITY FALLOUT SHELTERS WITH SIGNS AND ALL AND SOME ARE STILL STOCKED WITH WATER BARRELS THANKS TO THE CIVIL DEFENSE MUSEUM FOR THE ABOVE LITERATURE AND FOR MORE INFO ON COLD WAR CIVIL DEFENSE VISIT CIVILDEFENSEMISEUM.COM
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