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Rutland pilot forms subregional "community champions" to boost disaster response and recovery
Summary
Rutland region planners announced a pilot to build five subregions of neighboring towns, led by local "community champions," to strengthen preparedness, communications and early recovery. The effort aims for three tabletop pilots in 2025 and lists several upcoming workshops and exercises.
Eric Pulver, Emergency Preparedness Specialist at the Vermont Department of Health’s Rutland District office, and regional planners described a pilot program to organize Rutland County into several subregions for shared preparedness and recovery tasks.
Pulver and other presenters said the model centers ‘‘community champions’’ — towns with stronger emergency-management capacity that can mentor neighboring towns and host short tabletop exercises. The plan calls for subregions of roughly four to six neighboring towns, a two‑hour tabletop exercise focused on basic needs (food, water, shelter), communications (when and how to open an emergency operations center) and initial recovery steps (record-keeping for public assistance and FEMA processes).
Maggie (staff member) described the pilot as a grassroots approach to build…
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