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'Senior Safety Summit' coming to McLean later in month

Free event will focus on everything from financial crime to reducing risk in everyday life
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A Senior Safety Summit on April 24 at the McLean Community Center will offer tips on risk reduction, search-and-rescue, missing persons, financial crime, romance and business  scams, crime prevention and safety.

The event, which will run from 10 a.m. to noon, has been developed in collaboration with the McLean Citizens Association (MCA), McLean Community Center, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department and Fairfax County Police Department.

The  event is free of charge and no registration is required.

Among those scheduled to make remarks are Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis, Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department Chief John Butler, MCA president Linda Walsh and McLean Community Center executive director Betsy May-Salazar.

Brief introductions also will be made by Fire and Rescue Department policy adviser Marlon Murphy, Battalion Chief Matt Cox of Fire Station 29 in Tysons, Lt. Deanna Weand of the county police department’s Community Engagement and Equity Bureau, Capt. Derek Gray of the police department’s McLean District Station and MCA public-safety liaison Patrick Smaldore.

A question-and-answer session will follow the remarks.