Contact: Micki Trost, 303-472-4087 or micki.trost@state.co.us
Centennial,
Colo. – Sept. 9, 2017 – This morning the Colorado Division of
Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) deployed 24 emergency
management professionals from across the state to Florida. The 24 individuals will break into four teams
to provide emergency operations center (EOC) support to counties throughout the
state of Florida as part of an Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)
request for Hurricane Irma.
The teams will be led
by six field services staff from the Colorado DHSEM. The remaining 17 members represent emergency
management and public safety agencies from across the state. Those agencies include:
·
Lake County Office of
Emergency Management
·
City of Brighton Office
Emergency Management
·
Custer County Office of
Emergency Management
·
Clifton Fire Protection
District
·
Mesa County Public
Health
·
Bent County Office of
Emergency Management
·
UC Health
·
Pueblo County Sheriff’s
Office
·
Aurora Police
Department
City of Aurora Office of Emergency Management
City of Aurora Office of Emergency Management
·
Pritchett Fire
·
Littleton Fire Rescue
·
Gunnison County Office
of Emergency Management
·
Parker Police
Department
·
Grand Junction Fire
·
Pitkin County
·
City of Fort Collins
·
San Juan Public Health
·
Colorado Springs
Utilities
The team receives their
final assignments tonight after they arrive in Tallahassee, Florida. They will support Florida for the next 14
days.
Additional DHSEM Resources Deployed
In addition to the EOC
support teams Colorado also sent a 23 member incident management team (IMT) to
support law enforcement resources for Hurricane Irma. The IMT is working from
Moody Air Force Base in Georgia on a 14-day deployment. DHSEM has also deployed a logistics section chief
to the FEMA National Resource Coordination Center in Washington D.C. as an EMAC
liaison and a field services staff to serve as logistics staff in Puerto Rico
on an National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) resource request.
What is EMAC
EMAC,
the Emergency Management Assistance Compact is an all hazards - all disciplines
mutual aid compact that serves as the cornerstone of the nation's mutual aid
system. EMAC is the first national
disaster–relief compact since the Civil Defense and Disaster Compact of 1950 to
be ratified by the U.S. Congress. Since ratification and signing into law
in 1996 (Public Law 104-321), 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have enacted
legislation to become EMAC members.
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