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Washington County, Hillsboro describe local plans for fuel, water, shelter and department operation centers
Summary
Washington County and the City of Hillsboro briefed a Senate committee on May 27 about local emergency plans: an emergency fuel plan, water-distribution contingencies, mass-care planning, and Hillsboro's department operation center (DOC) arrangement that feeds situational awareness to the city EOC and county.
John Wheeler, manager of Washington County Emergency Management, told the Senate Committee on Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs that county planning assumes post-earthquake fuel will be the fuel already in ground storage and that transportation and utility networks could be critically damaged.
Wheeler described an emergency fuel plan developed through the Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization that prioritizes allocation of limited fuel supplies, and he said the county has worked on emergency drinking-water distribution plans and…
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