Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management Monthly Newsletter
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Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management (MCEM) compiles this monthly email to provide information related to emergency management activities.
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COVID-19 Updates
As of Thursday, February 27, the Multnomah County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) moved from Enhanced to Partial level of operations to coordinate ongoing contingency planning efforts for potential COVID-19 impacts. While the state and CDC are leads, Multnomah County is dealing with local questions and coordinating with the state and CDC to ensure the questions being submitted (by both internal and external audiences) are being answered. The EOC is also filling resource requests and engaged in other operations.
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Preparing for Animals In Disasters Workshop
Multnomah County Animal Services hosted an Emergency Support Function 17: Animals & Agriculture workshop on February 26 to improve regional preparedness regarding animal and agriculture needs during disasters.
The event had 46 participants from 21 organization throughout Northwest Oregon. The event had a presentation from the Oregon State Veterinary Office, group discussions about organizational resource and communication capabilities, and equipment demonstrations.
This groups plans to conduct an exercise event in 2020. Questions? Reach out to Jay LeVitre (
jay.levitre@multco.us).
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Banfield Pet Hospital staff demonstrate their mobile veterinary clinic.
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We're hiring!
MCEM is seeking an Emergency Management Planner!
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Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Doctrine Revision - 2020
the whole community. The 2020 revision summarizes critical exercise information in an easier-to-reference format
which will include updated templates and the HSEEP course at some point
The doctrine and more information can be found through the following
link.
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Chief Lake's badging ceremony
Meet Sauvie Island's New Fire Chief!
Chris Lake became Fire Chief for Sauvie Island Fire this past year. We recently had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about his life, career, and what it's like running such a unique fire district.
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Welcome Malachi and Jamie!
Please join MCEM in welcoming our two newest Senior Analysts in the Operations Division.
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Before coming to Multnomah County, Malachi spent 4 years as a Disaster Program Manager for the Red Cross of Northwest Oregon where he maintained and grew local response and recovery capacity as well as deploying to support disaster responses throughout Oregon and across the US. Prior to that, Malachi worked in long term disaster recovery in Louisiana and New York following Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
Malachi has a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Tulane University.
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Jamie has 15 years of community health experience, including direct service work in clinical and community-based settings, coalition management, and policy. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington. Jamie is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Arabic.
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- March 11, Portland, OR: DHS Active Shooter Preparedness Workshop. Register here.
- March 17-19, Sunriver, OR: Oregon Emergency Preparedness Conference. More info and link to registration here.
- April 7-8, Hood River, OR: RADIO Conference. View the agenda here. Register here.
- July 12-15, Broomfield, CO: 45th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop: Active Hope in an Era of Environmental Extremes. Learn more.
Ongoing
- The Multnomah County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) meets regularly on the second Friday of each month at the Portland Fire Training facility (4800 NE 122nd Portland, OR 97230) from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
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Training & Exercise Opportunities
Other.
- March 10-11, Portland, OR: MGT-315 Critical Risk Assessment Management. Register here.
- March 10-12, Wilsonville, OR: L0705 Fundamentals of Grants Management. Register here.
- March 10-12, Wilsonville, OR: ICS 300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents. Register here.
- March 12, Portland, OR: Water Sector Black Sky Exercise. Register here.
- March 17-18, White City, OR: AWR364 - Strategic, Tactical, and Resilient Interdiction of Violent Extremism (STRIVE). Register here.
- March 28 - April 4, Anniston, AL: 5th Annual Tribal Nations Training Week: Building Native Resilience, Protecting the Circle. View the flyer for more info.
- April 7, Wilsonville, OR: AWR-136 Essentials of Community Cybersecurity. Register here.
- April 7-8, Wilsonville, OR: MGT-385 Community Cybersecurity Exercise Planning. Register here.
- April 8-9, Wilsonville, OR: ICS 400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff. Register here.
- May 4-8, Salem, OR: L0449 Incident Command System Train-the-Trainer. Register here.
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Interested in volunteering with the Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management? Click on the button below or contact
Alice Busch
(
alice.busch@multco.us) with questions.
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Disaster Resource Centers
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Multnom
ah County activates
Disaster Resource Centers (DRCs)
to respond to the needs of people in the community who are affected by an incident or disaster. Click
here
to learn more about DRCs and how to get involved.
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Click the button below to see a list of available Emergency Management positions.
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Many thanks to RDPO for compiling many of the events, trainings, and job items listed in this newsletter.
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Have something you'd like to include in one of our future newsletters?
We'd love to hear from you! To have your upcoming trainings, exercises, events, or other announcements added, please reach out to
Robert Quinn
(
robert.quinn@multco.us
).
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