Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Emergency Management topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Emergency management reports heavy snowfall, $200,000 damage estimate and hazard mitigation work
Summary
Emergency management presented a Q4 update: a major snowfall (12–13.5 inches), initial damage assessments around $200,000, work on a hazard mitigation plan submitted to FEMA, training and an animal-response initiative, plus a pending FEMA generator grant for Rural Fire Station 6.
Saline County emergency management provided a fourth-quarter update to the Board of Commissioners on Jan. 14, describing a major winter-storm event, training activities and hazard-mitigation planning.
The emergency management presenter said the county experienced between about 12 and 13.5 inches of snow in the event — ‘‘one of the most snowfall events we’ve had in a single year in the last 12 years’’ — and preliminary damage assessments are about $200,000. The state’s new threshold for public assistance was cited as about $256,000, meaning the county remains short of the threshold for certain state assistance without combining eligible entity claims.
The office has submitted an updated hazard mitigation plan to FEMA and expects a review in the first quarter; that plan lists the entities eligible for public assistance that would help the county meet the raised threshold. Emergency management also described training and community programs completed and planned, including community emergency response training for 18 participants, tactical first aid with stop-the-bleed kits, a weather-monitoring role for the Crossroads Marathon and upcoming CPR/AED and animal-response trainings.
The department highlighted a new County public information officer participation in a federal emergency management public information cohort and said rural fire district 6 applied to FEMA for a generator grant; the county expects a decision within about a week. The office also noted increasing medical-call volume over the past two years compared with fire calls.
