OVILLA – Ovilla Mayor Richard Dormier said Monday he couldn’t say enough good things about the city’s first responders.
“Putting together an action plan days before the storm occurred was critical to the success of our efforts to maintain city services for our citizens,” the mayor added.
The effort was headed by the city’s fire chief, but Dormier added, “everyone in police, fire, and public works worked together as a team responding to calls from our citizens.”
Ovilla’s Grace Church was fortunate not to lose power, and Dormier said they offered their facilities for a warming center and shelter.
Dormier also mentioned Ovilla City Manager Pam Woodall, who he said monitored everyone’s efforts.
“We are thankful for her dedication and service to the citizens of Ovilla,” he added.
“We were able to maintain safe water levels due to our dedicated public works employees that worked 24-hours a day manually monitoring our water systems program,” Woodall said of last week’s events.
“Public Works also monitored the conditions of the roads with sanding treatment as well.
“Our biggest concern was for our residents in the loss of power that lasted in certain areas for up to approximately three days.”
This also included Ovilla’s municipal buildings.
Woodall concluded, “What is also amazing is that our police, fire and public works employees were all dealing with similar issues with their own families and homes, yet still reported to Ovilla to help our residents. Police and Fire continued responding to all calls, and made checks on our residents, even though their risk management software was not operational due to the power outage.
By last Thursday at around 1:30 pm, most Ovilla residents had their power restored.
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