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Emergency management schedules damage-assessment training; county staff announce July 3 community event
Summary
The county emergency management office said it will hold a damage-assessment class to prepare local code, assessor, school and fire personnel for post-disaster property evaluations. Staff also announced the Stars and Stripes Shelbyville kickoff and a time capsule event on July 3.
The Bedford County emergency management official told the Public Safety Committee the county will host a damage-assessment training to prepare local personnel to evaluate property impacts after disasters such as floods or tornadoes.
"We're doing a damage assessment class at our office," the EMA official said, describing participation from county and city codes personnel, the property assessor's office, schools and fire departments. The official said involving local staff "would... take a relief off of us" and allow recovery work to begin more quickly because participants "are local. They know where everything's at."
The EMA official said the training will include representatives from neighboring counties and is intended to let the county assign small teams to damage-evaluation tasks following an event so emergency staff can attend to other critical duties.
During announcements, staff member Sylvia invited the public to the "Stars and Stripes Shelbyville" kickoff on July 3, noting a time capsule burial and that the Chamber is producing a video for a county 250th celebration grant. She said the event will start at 4:00 p.m. and encouraged attendees to bring lawn chairs.
The meeting also included routine enclosed reports for juvenile detention and probation; presenters were not present and no questions were raised on those items in the transcript excerpt.
Committee members did not take further emergency-management actions in the excerpt provided.
