{"id":860,"date":"2018-03-28T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/?page_id=860"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:39:21","slug":"emergency-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/?page_id=860","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Vernon Parish Office of Homeland Security &amp; Emergency Preparedness<\/strong> is located at <strong>190 Ned Woodham, Leesville, LA 71446<\/strong> (in Vernon Parish Public Safety Operations Center) and can be reached at <strong>337-238-0815<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:vpohsep@vernonso.org\">vpohsep@vernonso.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During emergencies, please stay tuned to local news and radio for updates and information.\u00a0 Also, please follow the official Facebook pages for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VernonParishOHSEP\/\">Vernon Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100083405285930\">Vernon Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/firedistrict\/\">Vernon Parish Fire District<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vppjla\/\">Vernon Parish Police Jury<\/a> to receive updated information and news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sandbags<\/strong> are available during emergencies for parish residents at the Parish Public Works Department, located at 602 Alexandria Hwy. Sandbags should be used to flood proof homes and are <em><strong>limited to 15 per household<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the City of Leesville can get sandbags from the City of Leesville Public Works Department on Red Town Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for emergency alerts:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18835579_740500436122841_5864962454122754480_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-862 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18835579_740500436122841_5864962454122754480_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"785\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18835579_740500436122841_5864962454122754480_n.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18835579_740500436122841_5864962454122754480_n-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18835579_740500436122841_5864962454122754480_n-768x939.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vernon Parish Office of Homeland Security &amp; Emergency Preparedness is located at 190 Ned Woodham, Leesville, LA 71446 (in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vppjla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}