Pickens County presents updated local emergency operations plan; adds damage assessment and animal services annexes

Dr. Robbie Westbrook, Pickens County’s emergency management director, presented the county’s updated Local Emergency Operations Plan (LEOP) during the March work session and said the plan has been submitted to the state emergency-management agency for approval. Westbrook said the LEOP, updated every four years, is intended to align county response and preparedness activities with federal and state doctrine and serves as the organizing document for incident annexes, standard operating guides and training exercises.

Westbrook said the plan is multi-jurisdictional and has already been shared with the city of Jasper, the town of Talking Rock and the city of Nelson for their review and separate approval. He described the LEOP as a living document that will be used to generate a library of incident-specific annexes — checklists…