CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Response team demonstrates their newly acquired trailers full of emergency equipment and supplies.
The Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting started on August 29 with a full house with Davide Bradley from Athens, OH. He came into the meeting to talk about the 6 counties that he oversees.
FEMA approved the emergency plan and accepted by the Commissioners. Each village will have to look it over and approve it. Antwerp and Broughton are the only two villages that have approved the plan so far for their villages. The plan is to have all the villages approved by the end of October. The grant money is now available because FEMA approved the plan. New sirens, storm shelters, and flood issues are planned to be addressed. Funding is eligible in both Paulding and Payne for structures that repeatedly flood.
The training facility is still being worked on. Most of the inside is nearly completed and outside is still being worked on. The fabricator – Jordan Paige has been working hard to make this working. The dedication is tentatively scheduled for October 20. There is room for improvement including plans for a rail car donated by Norfolk and Southern, grain bin simulator from Farm Bureau, and a wrecked semi truck.
HAZMAT training for first responders will be Saturday, October 6. FEMA has provided funding for each state and Paulding County received theirs. The propane IQ will be rescheduled because it was originally scheduled for October 20 and there would be a conflict with the dedication.
The fire and EMS departments have received funding for the MARCs radios. The radios for law enforcement hopefully will be purchased before the end of the year, but the check has not been received yet since it was approved in April.
The funding for HAZMAT will be the same as last two years to $13651.00. The by-laws committee will be need to be established because the by-laws have not been updated since 2000.
PCH now has the supplies to make Stop the Bleed kits that will be distributed to the schools. The emergency responder plans have now been developed for each school in the county. It still has to be approved by the state and then the books will be printed and distributed to the schools and first responders. Matt McDougall stated the meetings went very well and people worked together to make these plans work.
Each school district in the county now has a School Resource Officer. Wayne Trace and Antwerp are both covered by the Sheriff’s Office, and Paulding (PEVS) is covered by the Paulding Police Department.
ICS (Incident Command System) and EOC (Emergency Operations Center) 101 will have the classes start this fall at the Health Department. Anita Stuckshutl will be leading the classes.
HAZMAT plan will be updated, reviewed and submitted to the state. The plan will not change much, but still must be reviewed. The plan is due October 17.
November 1, 2018 at the Extension Hall in Paulding for first responders with class for an exercise.
On Saturday, April 6, 2019 the HAZMAT functional exercise will be in Paulding or Payne.
The Health Department has a full Scale Regional Exercise on October 23 and 24th at the Health Department and at the Hospital.
The state has sent the EMA a 60KW generator and it can be utilized throughout the area. It was scheduled to be at Fulton County Fair for the mobile hospital, but the need was cancelled.
There will be a 911 renewal levy on the ballot this year.
187 Smoke alarms were installed in the Wayne Trace area, serving about 75 homes.
Mark Klausing spoke from EMA and CERT about trailers. After the meeting the trailers were shown to the attendees.
Ed Bohn explained why the National Weather Service did not put out warnings about the micro-burst that hit Haviland a couple months ago. No Nixle Alert didn’t go out.
Next meeting is November 28.
