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Fire chief describes unified command, grid search and volunteer surge after tornado
Summary
Rolla Fire and Emergency Services set up an incident command and used mutual aid to grid the city for door‑to‑door checks; the city also stood up an Emergency Operations Center and logged large volunteer turnout, the fire chief said.
The Rolla fire chief described a rapid shift from incident mitigation to recovery after the tornado and said he established an incident command post at Fire Station 2, called state mutual aid and switched to a unified command structure that included fire, police, dispatch, EMS and public works chiefs.
“We set up incident command … and immediately called state mutual aid,” the chief said. He described assigning extra fire, EMS and law enforcement units and using a numbered grid system so mutual‑aid crews…
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