Local Emergency Planning Committee

Nashua LEPC Minutes September 1, 2011 177 Lake Street, Nashua, NH 03060 Attendees: Justin Kates Nashua Emergency Management Rick Wood Nashua Fire Marshal Bill Lana Hillsborough ARES Fletcher Seagroves Hillsborough ARES Angelo Marino Nashua GIS Mark Dorobiala Dartmouth-Hitchcock Fran Dupuis St. Joseph’s Hospital Chris Stawasz Rockingham EMS Roland Vaillancova Rockingham EMS David Tinsch Harcros Chemicals Jim Cojta Walgreen’s Wayne Gibson Worthen Industries Ross Dugan Nashua Risk Management Mike Findley Nashua Building Inspector Scott Cote SNHMC Mark Hastings SNHMC Chris Lessard Nashua School District Ed Lecius Nashua PD Mike Dolan Salvation Army Jim Lima Nashua PD Joe McDonald Rivier College Anna O’Herren Walgreen’s Patty Crooker Nashua Public Health  Gene Heighton Greater Nashua Medical Reserve Corps Meeting started at 3:15pm Committee reports: Outreach and Education: Patty Crooker talked about City activities for National Preparedness Month. Posters, messages to employees, presentations all being worked on by Public Health. Fran Dupuis gave information about the Preparedness Class being offered on the 28th of September from 6pm to 8pm. St. Joseph’s Hospital has been involved in a significant number of initiatives. Rick Wood talked about Campus Fire Safety month also being in September. SMART Report: Rick Wood gave report on SMART. IAFF will be providing Hazmat training to Nashua Fire/Rescue. Training being done on Air Monitoring with Civil Support Team. New firefighters will be going through Hazmat Decon training. No significant Hazmat responses since last LEPC meeting. Lot of work being done with Dive Team and new boat. Volunteers (COAD/VOAD/Citizen Corps): Justin talked about the response of volunteer organizations during Irene, full force, great job. Gene Heighton advised that COAD is having meeting September 20th. 8th of September will be the Medical Reserve Corps meeting. Exercise and Training: Mike Dolan from Salvation Army talked about Airport drill involvement. Both hospitals as well as Rockingham Ambulance will also be involved on October 1st. Fletcher Seagoves is talking about Simulated Emergency Test in November to test amateur radio resources. Patty Crooker is planning an exercise setting up Alternate Care Site soon, and also Strategic National Stockpile training. Public Information: Justin talked about the idea behind a Joint Information System to unify messages to the public from both public and private sector. Old Business: WebEOC training discussed by Rick Wood. Many entities trained on WebEOC over the past few months. Used extremely well during Irene with a great running log of the entire event. Looking at continuing that training to ensure all agencies have access. Issues at the State in regards to viewing access by Hospitals and MACE on WebEOC which has been reported to their organization. Chris Lessard from School District talked about his use of WebEOC from his home during Irene. Important to practice using WebEOC using the training event created in the system. Emergency Operations Plan was discussed by Justin Kates. Will be asking for information that needs to be included in plan from all Divisions New Business: Hurricane Irene Response was very successful. Full After Action Review will be completed in the near future, meeting being scheduled. Individual Assistance and Public Assistance process started and the Preliminary Damage Assessment will be complete soon. City interested in how private sector did on response to Irene. Scott Cote from SNHMC was interested in how a strategy can be developed for stormwater drainage overflow issues. Important issue to protect critical infrastructure like hospitals from flood water. Justin Reviewed National Preparedness Month. Materials available on Ready.gov for private sector organizations to use. Internal communications with employees on how to stay prepared is just as important. Rick Wood mentioned that the City will have a new ambulance vendor soon and for private sector organizations to be aware. Vendor not decided yet. Justin gave a presentation on his background and on possible emergency management projects over the next year. LEPC participants asked for a potential host for the next meeting. Next meeting is 10/6/11. Meeting Adjourned at 4:20pm