Emergency Management / Disaster Response Plan

Section 2 - EMERGENCY OPERATIONS

PURPOSE:

To provide guidance on preparing for, acting during and recovering from natural and man-made disasters.

PROCEDURE:

The City of Maitland Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan is designed to provide direction and a base line understanding of the preferred operation of the City of Maitland during a hurricane incident. This guideline or portions thereof can be used during non- hurricane incidents of disaster proportions. The Plan has been provided to each department in the form of a book and all City of Maitland employees have been instructed on its contents.

EMCONS:

• The City of Maitland has a system of five (5) readiness and decision phases known as EMCONS (Emergency Conditions). These EMCONS describe the actions taken by all departments to ready the city for a hurricane event. The EMCONS also address steps to be taken during an event, as well as, those taken during the recovery phase.
• Normally, as a storm approaches, the EMCON level gradually increases to address issues that assure the city has all elements in place to be impacted by a hurricane.
• In the event of a disaster with little to no prior notice, the appropriate EMCON can be declared to initiate the necessary actions by all departments to recover from the incident.
• The Fire Chief acts as the Emergency Manager for the city and is the chairperson of the Disaster Committee. It is the responsibility of the Emergency Manager to monitor any threat to the City of Maitland and issue EMCON changes as deemed appropriate.