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Knox County emergency management details exercises, seeks state grant for movable barrier trailer
Summary
Knox County emergency management described recent exercises including a school reunification drill and regional CERT coordination, reviewed mass-notification vendors and said it applied for a $250,000 state homeland security grant to buy a movable barrier trailer for outdoor events and elections.
James Deshont, director of Knox County Emergency Management and the county’s intelligence liaison, and Amy Seward, deputy director, told the board Oct. 2 that their office has focused this fall on public outreach, interagency training and regional coordination to bolster responses to active-threat and other incidents.
Deshont said the office ran radio public-service announcements and that staff members presented to the Emergency Needs Committee to help partner agencies update emergency-operation and continuity plans. “We did a public service announcement on 93 q and 100.9. There were 5 of us, that did a 30 second blurb,” Seward said.
The directors described a reunification exercise at Fredericktown Local School that used round‑robin…
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