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Hemet officials review emergency operations center roles and next steps for readiness
Summary
Fire, city manager and city attorney briefed council on Emergency Operations Center responsibilities, decision-making roles during incidents and continuity-of-government considerations; staff proposed further training, public-information planning and designation of council successors for emergency continuity.
Hemet city staff briefed the City Council on the function of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the respective roles of city officials, emergency management staff and partner agencies during an incident at the March 11 meeting.
Fire Chief (Chief Sowell) described the EOC as the city’s central command and control facility for major incidents and outlined key responsibilities including information gathering, resource management, communications, and operational coordination with regional mutual-aid partners. The chief also described the typical EOC organization: an EOC director, operations, planning, logistics and finance sections, and a public information…
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