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Lafayette council briefed on emergency operations, EOC activation and community role
Summary
Emergency services trainer Andy Conley told the Lafayette City Council that disaster response relies on a common framework (NIMS/ICS) and "takes the whole community," outlining how incident command escalates to an Emergency Operations Center and the legal steps for local emergency proclamations.
Andy Conley, an emergency services trainer, told the Lafayette City Council during a training session that responding to and recovering from disasters requires coordinated work across the whole community. "Responding to disasters and preparing for them ... takes the whole community," he said, as he walked the council through the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System.
Conley described how incidents scale from field incident command to a city Emergency Operations Center (EOC), then to the county operational area and beyond when…
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