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Emergency management report: wildfire response, evacuation ambulance bus and concerns about state/federal funding rules
Summary
Emergency management director described recent wildfire and outage responses, a planned converted evacuation bus project for mass casualty transport, a new bomb-dog grant, and expressed concerns that increasingly strict grant stipulations are making it hard for small counties to access emergency management funding.
George Colson, Iron County emergency management director, updated the commission on recent incident responses and preparedness projects, including the county’s role in a Rocky Mountain Power outage community resource center and near-miss events during the Foresight fire, which threatened areas north toward New Harmony and prompted local evacuation planning.
Colson said he stood up nongovernmental partners and prepared for evacuations of Harmony, Cliffs Ranches and Canaryville; the fire did not cross the ridgeline that would have pushed it into those communities. He also reported securing regional reimbursement of about $22,000 for Enoch City’s new police station electronic work and helping write an emergency…
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