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Yamhill County emergency management highlights free advanced active-shooter training and new evacuation tools
Summary
County emergency management reported a multiagency active-shooter exercise delivered at no cost, plans for hazard mitigation updates, a new evacuation-mapping tool and uncertainty about federal EMPG funding.
Brian Young, emergency management staff, briefed the Board of Commissioners on July 24 about an advanced active-shooter incident management training brought to Yamhill County by C3 Pathways and partners. Young said the three-day training included 11 progressively complex scenarios involving roughly 30 law enforcement officers, 20 EMS personnel, dispatchers, public information officers and a helicopter pilot.
Young said the training would have cost about $62,000 if the county had paid for it; the county obtained it at no cost through an application process and the contractor’s scheduling availability. He described scenario work on incident command post operations, tactical triage and transportation, staging and area command, and…
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