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Murrieta staff outline emergency operations, urge wider Genesis adoption
Summary
City fire and emergency-management staff gave a high-level Emergency Management 101 to council July 1, explaining automatic aid, mutual aid, EOC activation levels and the Genesis Protect app; council asked staff to formalize PIO-to-council notification templates and expand EOC training.
Murrieta fire and emergency-management staff briefed the City Council July 1 on how the city prepares for and responds to large-scale incidents, stressing interagency agreements, the role of the Emergency Operations Center and improvements to public notifications.
Deputy Fire Chief Mike Lopez described the city's reliance on automatic aid (the closest unit responds regardless of agency patch) and mutual aid (formal requests when an incident outgrows local resources). "Emergencies don't care about city boundaries," Lopez said, adding the council approved an automatic-aid agreement with the city of Riverside in 2023. He explained that mutual aid can bring region- and state-level…
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