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Emergency-management seminar urges clear delegation, unified public messaging
Summary
Teton County Emergency Management led a joint town–county seminar and tabletop exercise stressing that incident commanders run on-scene operations, elected officials should ratify delegations quickly to secure reimbursement, and coordinated public messaging is critical during wildfires and other incidents.
Rich Oakes, Teton County emergency manager, led a joint elected-officials seminar and tabletop exercise—Operation North Star—on how the town of Jackson and Teton County should govern during major incidents.
Oakes summarized the local planning framework, calling the Emergency Operations Plan the jurisdiction's "homeland security plan" and describing three related documents: the EOP (response), the all-hazards recovery plan (post-incident recovery) and the hazard mitigation plan (updated every five years). He said the EOC supports incident commanders by facilitating resources and synthesizing…
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