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Oregon Emergency Management details 911 modernization, grant awards and disaster funding
Summary
Oregon Department of Emergency Management officials briefed the Senate committee Jan. 21 on priorities including NextGen 911 modernization, federal grants (EMPG, BRIC, HMGP), mitigation funding and an open deadline for a recent presidential disaster declaration.
Aaron McMahon, director of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, and Patience Whittingham, deputy director, told the Senate committee Jan. 21 that OEM’s priorities for the session include modernizing 911 systems, administering federal grant programs and continuing regional coordination for response and recovery.
Whittingham said OEM oversees the state 911 program, which manages routing for 41 public safety answering points and handles more than 2,200,000 emergency calls and 3,700,000 administrative calls annually. She said the…
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