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State resilience officer reviews recent disasters, continuity planning and a federally funded statewide resilience plan
Summary
State Resilience Officer Janna Papa Efemieux briefed the House committee on recent incidents (storms, winter storm, heat, fentanyl emergency, tsunami advisory), continuity of operations planning and a HUD‑funded statewide resilience planning grant; she said the governor supports House Bill 2581 to expand the office’s duties.
Janna Papa Efemieux, Oregon’s State Resilience Officer, updated the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans on Jan. 23 about last year’s major incidents, continuity of operations (COOP) planning and a statewide resilience plan funded through a HUD grant.
Papa Efemieux reviewed a sequence of incidents that engaged state response: a New Year’s rainstorm and landslide that damaged coastal roads and led to a state emergency declaration, a severe winter storm that contributed to a presidential disaster declaration and reimbursable response costs, drought declarations that allow expanded emergency drinking water and federal program flexibilities, an extreme heat event that prompted an…
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