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Members of law enforcement, firefighting and emergency management staff recently participated in specialized public disaster preparedness training, with a focus on freight and passenger railroad safety and investigation in Texas.

Experts weigh in on educating, training workforce

Hill Country citizens remember the late January- early February ice storm earlier this year that coated trees with up to three-quarters of an inch of ice, paralyzed roads, pulled down power lines and left many people in the cold and dark for three days. The number of power outages in the Hill Country alone surpassed 200,000 households, and, in Texas, almost half a million people lost power. It was the worst ice storm in nearly a decade.