It was a packed house at the Toomey Abbot Community Room. Residents and community members participated in the second community preparedness event hosted by the Syracuse Onondaga NAACP and presented by the Governor’s Office of NYS Citizen’s Preparedness. Severe weather events are becoming more frequent and more extreme. It’s more important than ever that New Yorkers are prepared for disasters. The NY Citizen Preparedness Training Program teaches residents to have the tools and resources to prepare for any type of disaster, respond accordingly and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions. This training course provided participants an introduction to responding to a natural or man-made disaster. They were advised…