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Oregon Emergency Management outlines SPIRE grant program and live equipment dashboard
Summary
Oregon Department of Emergency Management officials described the State Preparedness and Incident Response Equipment (SPIRE) grant program, its regional distribution changes and a live inventory dashboard that lets emergency managers request equipment during incidents.
Elena Mayfield, preparedness manager at the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, told the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government and Veterans that the SPIRE program has grown from an initial 2017 appropriation and now has more than 100 awardees across the state.
"The intent of the SPIRE program is to provide much larger scale, much harder to acquire equipment," Mayfield said. She said the program began…
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