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Coeur d'Alene council adopts Kootenai County Emergency Operations Plan amid questions on immunity and evacuations
Summary
The Coeur d'Alene City Council on Dec. 17 adopted Kootenai County's updated Emergency Operations Plan (Resolution 24-098) after a lengthy presentation and debate over state law citations, "limited immunity" language and evacuation authority. County and local officials said the plan documents existing law and does not add local authority.
Coeur d'Alene ' The City Council voted Dec. 17 to adopt Kootenai County's updated Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), a 206-page, all-hazards framework intended to coordinate county and municipal responses to large-scale disasters.
Tiffany Westbrook, director of the Kootenai County Office of Emergency Management, told the council the plan is a working, multiagency document that "doesn't have any additional authority to it" and is intended to clarify roles, resources and procedures for events that exceed local capabilities.
The plan update, developed over a nine-month stakeholder process and revised from an earlier 500-page version, organizes response functions around Emergency Support Functions (ESFs), incident annexes (wildland fire, evacuation) and support annexes (alerts and warnings). Westbrook said the plan is required in part by Idaho statute and as a…
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