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Oxnard fire chief urges council to adopt 2026 emergency plan, formalize ASPCA pet-aid agreement
Summary
Fire Chief Alex Hamilton told the committee the City of Oxnard’s 2026 Emergency Operations Plan (base plan) updates hazard assessments, clarifies EOC roles and incorporates state mandates on multilingual communications and access needs; he also presented an ASPCA mutual-aid agreement to support pet sheltering, with staff saying there is no fiscal impact.
Alex Hamilton, fire chief for the City of Oxnard Fire Department, told the committee the city should adopt the 2026 Emergency Operations Plan base plan and authorize the mayor to sign a letter of promulgation making the plan effective.
“This plan establishes the city's emergency management framework,” Hamilton said, describing the update as a five-year cycle and noting the last full update was in December 2021.
The base-plan update, Hamilton said, is intended to ensure continued compliance with state and federal incident management systems and the California Emergency Services Act, preserve eligibility for FEMA public assistance and hazard-mitigation grant programs, and improve…
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