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Columbia County reassigns emergency management to Fire & Rescue, schedules storm-response workshop and donates surplus supplies
Summary
The board moved the emergency management director into the Fire and Rescue Department to improve storm response coordination, approved donations of surplus supplies to neighboring counties and scheduled a workshop to revise operational and logistical storm plans.
Columbia County commissioners voted to assign the county’s emergency management director to operate within Columbia County Fire Rescue under Chief Crawford, a reorganization staff said will improve coordination and staffing during storm response.
County manager David (County Manager) told the board the county’s emergency management director had limited staff and that situating the function within Fire and Rescue would give the director access to departmental staff and operational capacity. “This…
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