Presentation by LMK and Associates for the Town of Epsom last week regarding the roles and responsibilities of the Emergency Management Director, Rick Bilodeau. Thank you, Lee Lee Kimball for all your help.

1. TOWN OF EPSOM
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
PURPOSE – ROLE – HISTORY – EMD DUTIES
ROLE OF THE EOC
LMK EMERGENCY PLANNING ASSOCIATES
Bow, New Hampshire

2. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
• Provide an overview of the role of Emergency
Management in the community.
• Develop an understanding of the duties of the EMD.
• Describe the role and functions of the EOC.
LMK Emergency Planning Associates

3. DEFINITION
A program that implements the mission, vision,
and strategic goals and objectives, as well as the
framework of an entity to support ongoing efforts to
prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and
recover from any kind of emergency.

4. PHASES OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
• MITIGATION: Activities taken to reduce the
severity or consequences of an emergency.
• PREPAREDNESS: Activities, task, programs,
and systems developed and implemented prior
to an emergency.
• RESPONSE: Activities designed to address the
immediate and short-term effects of the
emergency.
• RECOVERY: Activities and programs designed
to return conditions that are acceptable to the
entity.

5. DISASTER/EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1986 - 2012
• EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS: 13
• DISASTER DECLARATIONS: 21
• TOTAL DIRECT ASSISTANCE: $90 MIL.
• SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE: $40 MIL.

6. HISTORICAL FOCUS
• PRIOR TO 1970
• 1970 TO 1980
• 1980 TO 1990
• 1990 TO 2001
• 2001 TO PRESENT

7. NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(NIMS)
GOAL: Establishment of a single, comprehensive
national system that links all levels of
government in every State of the Union.
• Established the DHS and Secretary
• Directed the development of the NRP
• Emphasized the federal role
• Makes federal grants contingent on compliance

8. HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
• All incidents start locally.
• State support is initiated upon request of local
government when they have exhausted their
response capabilities.
• Federal assistance is initiated when state
government has exhausted their response
capabilities
• State of Emergency vs. Emergency/Disaster
Declaration

9. Community Emergency Management Team
• Town • Recreation
Manager/Emergency Department
Management Director • Welfare Officer
• Police Department • Town Treasurer
• Fire/Rescue • Planning Board
Department
• Library Committee
• Highway Department
• Health Officer

10. EMD Duties
• Completion and updates of the National Incident
Management System compliance tool (NIMSCAST).
• Update the Town EOP.
• Updates of the Town Hazard Mitigation Plan.
• Develop a communications plan for major incidents.
• Update the alert and notification data basis.
• Establish a schedule and conducting meetings with the
Emergency Management Team.
• Maintain SOG’s/MOU/s with partner organizations.
• Participation in the All-Health Hazards regional
planning effort.
• Development and maintenance of the EOC to
accommodate an operational status.

11. Duties Cont.
• Identify and develop a special needs population data basis.
• Up-date the town resource list.
• Conduct an EOC tabletop exercise.
• Recruit individuals to support EOC administrative operations.
• Train individuals in the use of WEBEOC to support EOC operation
and the reporting of operational status to the state.
• Establish a training schedule for NIMS compliance to include:
• IS 100
• IS 200
• IS 700
• IS 800
• IS 400

12. COMMUNITY
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (EOC)

13. PURPOSE OF THE EOC
The purpose of the Emergency Operations
Center (EOC) is to provide a central
location where government at any level is
able to provide inter-agency coordination
and executive decision making for
managing disaster response and recovery.

14. THE EOC SHOULD NOT BE:
• A place where uncomfortable officials:
* meet in unfamiliar surroundings,
* to play unfamiliar roles,
* making unpopular decisions,
* based on inadequate information,
* in too little time.

15. MULTIAGENCY COORDINATION
SYSTEMS
• A combination of resources
• Integrated into a common framework
• Used to coordinate and support incident
management activities

16. MULTIAGENCY COORDINATION SYSTEMS
(Continued)
• Support incident management policies and
priorities
• Facilitate logistics support and resource tracking
• Make resource allocation decisions based on
incident management priorities
• Coordinate incident-related information
• Coordinate interagency and intergovernmental
issues regarding incident management policies,
priorities, and strategies

17. MULTIAGENCY COORDIANTION SYSTEMS
EXAMPLES
• Local/State EOC’s
• Regional Federal EOC
• Public Health MACE
• Wildfire MACG
• Military MACG

18. EOC ORGANIZATION
EOC Manager
Resource Information
Coordination Communications
Management Management

19. EOC ORGANIZATION
Coordination
Other Multiagency
Multiagency Coordination
Coordination Entities
Entity
 Resources  Resources
 Situation status
 Priorities  Priorities
 Resource needs
 Strategic coordination  Strategic coordination
Incident Incident
Command/ Command/
Unified Unified
Command 1 Command 2

20. AN EOC IS MADE UP OF:
• Facility (s)
• People
• Equipment
• Supplies
• Communications
• Procedures
• Documentation

21. MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF AN EOC
• Direction and control
• Information collection, evaluation and display
• Coordination
• Establishment of priorities
• Resource management

22. ACTIVITIES THE EOC OVERSEES
• Start-up
• Administration and documentation
• Resource management
• Disaster analysis
• Decision making
• Recovery
• Communications and Information Sharing

23. THE EOC IS THE VOICE OF GOVERNMENT
• To keep the people
within your jurisdiction Field operations Public
of responsibility
unharmed, save lives,
protect property, return
the community to EOC
normalcy and Other Media
rehabilitate its citizens. levels of
government