Delaware County’s Emergency Operations Center has moved from the 911 center on Rt. 353 in Middletown to the empty Glen Mills Schools to focus on the coronavirus pandemic, writes Kathleen Carey for the Daily Times.

The school offered its facilities to the county center as a coronavirus command post.

“Because of the pandemic, and because we know we have a campus that is being underutilized we wanted to step in and step up and do what we could to help,” Glen Mills Schools Acting Executive Director Christopher Spriggs  said. “So we have availed this campus for as long as needed.”

The school’s been empty since its license was revoked following allegations of student abuse.

911 operators continue to work at the 911 center.

The Glen Mills Center will focus on planning, assigning, and allocating resources, and logistics, focusing on public health and the pandemic. It also offers in-person meetings complying with social distancing requirements.

Delaware County Emergency Services Director Tim Boyce said top priorities will be maintaining public safety and governmental services.

The Glen Mills campus will contain a First Responder Refuge, where First Responders can stay while awaiting coronavirus testing.  The facility will not house sick patients, Boyce stressed.

Read more about this coronavirus command center here.

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