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Horry County emergency management outlines hazard mitigation plan, grant status and upcoming exercises
Summary
Emergency management presented a five‑year hazard mitigation plan that must be approved for FEMA reimbursement, said the plan was developed internally (saving an estimated $200,000 in contractor costs), and listed training, sheltering and upcoming exercises including a November tsunami drill and a state full‑scale exercise next year.
Sam Hardy of Horry County emergency management gave council members a five‑month overview of the office’s work, focusing on planning, grants and exercises. Hardy said the county’s comprehensive emergency management plan is a roughly 400‑page document updated annually and that a separate five‑year hazard mitigation plan will be routed to FEMA and then to municipalities for local adoption; "without that plan in place and approved by y'all ... there is no reimbursement from FEMA," Hardy said.
Hardy described grant dependencies (the Local Emergency Management Performance Grant from FEMA, which the office is still waiting on from the state), damage‑assessment team training (about 70 trained individuals), medical‑facility review letters required by the Department of Public Health, and community outreach work. He noted the hazard mitigation plan was produced internally, saving what he called an estimated contractor cost of about $200,000, and outlined upcoming exercises including a tsunami drill (PlanX 25) in November and preparation for a state full‑scale exercise next year.
Hardy closed by encouraging council members to visit the Emergency Operations Center and said staff will return with the formal hazard mitigation plan for review and subsequent adoption steps.
