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Cumberland County emergency management outlines increased exercises, mitigation push and recovery aid
Summary
EMA Director Michael Durkin told commissioners the office has restructured staff around preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery, has opened the county EOC five times this year, helped towns win mitigation funds and is managing two active presidential disaster recoveries.
Michael Durkin, director of Cumberland County Emergency Management, told the Board of Commissioners the office has reorganized staff around four mission areas—preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery—and is stepping up exercises and grant work to build county resilience.
Durkin said the county has "opened our EOC 5 times thus far this year," citing activations for winter storms, a Gray water-main break and a commercial ammonia leak in Scarborough. He described a heavier-than-normal exercise schedule this year, including support for a Portland Jetport full-scale exercise and a National Guard operation that spanned multiple sites.
The county has also broadened…
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