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Emergency management and fire marshal outline rising mission workload, EOC and equipment needs
Summary
Pender County emergency management and the county fire marshal described increasing mission activity, proposed river-gauge deployments, and one recommended additional coordinator position to sustain emergency operations and on-call coverage.
Pender County—s emergency management director and the county fire marshal briefed commissioners on mission activity, equipment and staffing needs tied to an active year of responses and to the county—s growth.
Emergency management summary: The county director reported that the office answered or supported more than 100 missions in the most recent calendar period and that the office activated alerting systems more than 200 times this year for on-call requests from partner agencies. The office asked the county for a modest operational contingency of $35,000 to cover startup and activation costs during incidents, and it described capital priorities that include mobile command capability and river-gauge monitoring.
River gauges and flood monitoring: Emergency…
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