County of Summit, Ohio
Emergency Operations Plan
2018
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Preface: The ultimate goal of the Summit County Emergency Operations Plan is to
protect our citizens, communities, structures, and safety of all those who call Summit County
home.
This plan supersedes all other previous plans, only under life threatening events or my own
decision is this plan to be altered, changed, or reviewed in anyway. Only high level emergency
management officials may alter this plan through specific modifications.
Approval: This plan was made together by high ranked officials throughout the fire safety field,
public health, and emergency management professionals.
President of Public Health of Summit County
Mayor of Summit County
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Record of Changes:
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Version
Date
Changes
10.2
10/10/2010
Census updated figures.
11.1
03/12/2017
Chief of Police updated
more preparedness plans
for school shootings.
Record of Distribution:
Version
1.6
Date
Changes
01/25/2017
Executive members of
Summit County Public
health via electronic mail.
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Table of Contents
Preface----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1
Approval--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1
Record of Changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 2
Record of Distribution------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 2
Purpose-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 5
Scope-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 5
Situational Overview 1.0--------------------------------------------------------------------Page 6
Situational Overview 2.0--------------------------------------------------------------------Page 6
Situational Overview 3.0--------------------------------------------------------------------Page 7
Situational Overview 4.0a-------------------------------------------------------------------Page 7
Situational Overview 4.0b-------------------------------------------------------------------Page 8
Hazard Vulnerability Assessment----------------------------------------------------------Page 9
Hazard Profile---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 10
Planning Assumption-------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 10
References: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 11
Considerations and Overview:……………………………………………………..Page 11
Key Actions and definitions……………………………………………………….Page 11
Organization and Assignment Responsibilities Line of Succession:………………Page 13
Responsibilities Emergency Operations Center Manager:…………………………Page 15
Responsibilities of Liaison Officer…………………………………………………Page 16
Responsibilities Continuity of Operations:…………………………………………Page 16
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Purpose:
Summit County has developed an EOP for incidents that may be beyond our capabilities.
This EOP contains a blue print for dealing with major emergencies that Summit County has a
strong possibility of facing. The number one goal for this EOP is to prevent, protect, mitigate,
respond, and recover from any hazard that poses a serious risk to anyone living in Summit
County.
Essentially, this EOP is designed to reduce loss of live and property damage in Summit County
from Natural, Technological, or Man-Made disasters.
Scope: The EOP is constructed to allow unity of effort in reaction to all-hazards. The main goal is
for citizen safety and property protection. This EOP also gives instructions for all county
departments, local businesses, and non-profit corporations to receive full resources during a
hazardous event.
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Situational Overview 1.0:
On March 3rd, 1840 Summit county was formed from portions of Medina, Portage, and
Stark Counties. It was named “Summit County because of the high elevation on the Ohio and
Erie Canal is located in the county. Summit County is located in the state of Ohio,
North of Summit County is Cuyahoga County, North-East of Summit County is Geauga County,
South of Summit County is Stark County, and West of Summit County is Medina County.
Situational Overview 2.0:
Summit County is 419 mi² miles of land and is approx. 7.3 square miles of water. Summit
Metro Parks is a Metro park system serving the citizens of Summit County, Ohio by managing
14,100 acres in 16 developed parks, six conservation areas and more than 125 miles of trails,
with 22.4 miles of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail.
Summit County’s highest elevation is 410 meters (1,345 feet) which ranks it 40th in terms of
highest elevations compared to the other total 88 counties in Ohio. Summit County, Ohio records
39 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 39 inches of rain per year.
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Situational Overview 3.0:
Summit County received its name due to the highest elevation on the Ohio
and Erie Canal are both located in Summit County. Summit County was established on March
3rd, 1840. Based off the 2010 United States Census, there was 541,781 people and 222,781
households. Out of the 222,781 households, 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with
them. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.98.
The median income for a household in the county was $47,926 and the median income for a
family was $62,271. About 10.0% of families and 13.8% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 19.8% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over. Since the
last previous census, summit county has dropped to 541,436 people living in summit county.
Situation Overview 4.0a:
Summit County often holds special events such as animals, art, business, club,
educational, environmental, festival, and many more types of specific events. These events occur
frequently and are held throughout the year. There are an estimated 1,000 people who attend
these events every-year.
Cultural type events that Summit County holds are meetings at local churches and choir groups
that engage in gospel music. Sports events that are held in Summit County are often located at
some of the local YMCA’s and fields and parks.
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One of the annual charity events held in Summit County is the Achieving Dreams Celebration,
which is holding its 12th Annual event on Saturday, October 13th, 2018. The charity will support
organizations’ programs, services, and scholarship fund to benefit students in the
Akron Public Schools.
Another outstanding special event is Dancing for the Kids. This event feature nine local
“celebrities” who put on the dancing shoes to raise money for Akron Children’s Hospital’s
Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders. Their first event was held in
2012.
Situation Overview 4.0b:
A diverse group of healthcare, banking, manufactures, distribution companies, represent
Summit County’s major employers. Some of the major corporate headquarters located in Summit
County are Goodyear Tires, Cleveland-Clinic and Akron General, and First Energy Corporation.
There are 13 Hospitals in Summit County. Some listed are Akron’s Children Hospital, Cleveland
Clinic Akron General, John D Morely Health Center, Summa Barberton Hospital, and Western
Reserve Hospital. In Summit County, there are two main airports. The Akron-Canton Airport
and the Akron Fulton Airport. There are only two main waterways, which would Portage Lake
and the Erie Canal.
The main type of freight transportation in Summit County is Trucking. There are a couple of
public transportation systems in Summit County such as the METRO RTA, SCAT, Greyhound
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Bus, and Dash. Major types of public transportations are either by bus, car, air, shuttle services,
and trains. Summit County has 6 major interstates. I-76, I-77, I-80, I-271, and I-480.
Water is supplied to Summit County through the Akron Water Distribution System. It is
comprised of the underground network of water force mains, transmission mains, feeder mains,
local mains and their associated valves, fire hydrants, service connections, reservoirs, pump
stations and water tanks. The water distribution system contains approximately 1,225 miles of
water mains, ranging in sizes of 4 to 54 inches in diameter, approximately 94,000 active water
services, 30,576 valves and 12,649 fire hydrants.
Storm water is controlled by Summit County Engineers through their Storm-water Management.
Their Storm Water Initiative program promotes a cooperative and coordinated continued
watershed management system for Summit County. Sewer water is managed through the
Department of Sanitary Sewer Services in Akron, Ohio.
Hazard Vulnerability Assessment
Summit County has administered an assessment for all potential hazards in Summit County. This
Hazard Vulnerability Assessment provides regularity, vulnerability, subjection, and risk of all
hazards. These records are maintained by the Summit County Office of Emergency
Management.
Hazard Profile
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Throughout the Hazard Vulnerability, we have been able to identify hazards that pose
potential to cause moderate to severe damage to people and property in Summit County.
Below are hazards that have the highest possibility of occurring in Summit County.
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Flooding
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Information Systems Failure IT
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Active Shooter/Hostage Situation
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Extreme Weather Conditions (Blizzards, Storms, and Thunderstorms
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Electrical Failure
Planning Assumptions:
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Disasters vary from strength, duration, and frequency. Some disasters have a low
probability of occurring while others have a great possibility of occurring.
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Aid from other communities and groups should be available due to the distances between
them and no significant geographical features that would make it difficult to allow
convergence to happen.
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No major disaster should occur within the next couple years, however, it is imperative to
be well prepared for when that day arrives
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Considerations and Overview:
There was a plethora of considerations that were taken in place when creating the Summit
County EOP. Communications must be always on the roll updating anyone who needs
information on an event. All four sections (Logistics, Planning, Operations, and Finance) must
all share equal power to one another but stay in their respected lines of work. Plan development
will change periodically whenever there is a urge to update or run an experiment with the plan.
Key Actions and definitions:
NIMS is a comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is applicable at all
jurisdiction levels across other disciplines. By exercising NIMS, this ensures that we are
prepared for any emergency event.
The National Framework response is a part of the National Strategy for Homeland
Security that sows the guiding principles enabling all levels of domestic response partners to
prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies.
The Incident Command System (known as ICS) is a regulated approach to the command, control,
and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders
from multiple agencies can be effective.
Plan activation will be engaged whenever we receive news or communication of an
emergency occurring. Ideally, we want to mitigate the event happening and be able to control it
as soon as we possibly can. Exercises and tests will happen to increase our response time.
Emergency Declaration is vital to alert citizens to know when an emergency is occurring. This
could help to get less people affected by the emergency and clear out the area of the incident.
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There are three types of levels that we would respond to. Level one is a routine response.
No significant impact on local response resources. Normally involves only one response agency,
but may require minimum cooperation or support from other response agencies or departments.
Examples: Accidental death of one student, minor water pipe leak within in a building/Minor
chemical spill/Student-related incident.
The EOC and Executive Groups are normally not activated.
Level two is a non-routine response (Full or Partial Activation may occur). Exceeds the
capability of initial on-scene or on-duty emergency response personnel and equipment. Requires
resources from multiple response agencies and departments.
Examples: Structure fire, Isolated power failure greater than 4 hrs, impending severe winter
storm, IT issues or incident involving a sports team while traveling on school related event.
A full or partial EOC and/or Executive Group activation may occur depending on the situation.
Level 3 is a critical incident (Full or Partial Activation may occur). Exceeds the capability of
available emergency response personnel and resources, even from mutual aid agencies. Requires
full mobilization of University resources and substantial mobilization of city, county, state or
federal resources.
Example: Tornado, Long term power failure, Significant number of University critical functions
are disrupted, or Significant IT breach.
A full or partial EOC and/or Executive Group activation may occur depending on the situation.
An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a central location from which local governments can
provide interagency coordination and executive decision making in support of incident response
and recovery operations. The purpose of the EOC is to provide a centralized location where
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public safety, emergency response, and support agencies coordinate planning, preparedness, and
response activities.
The EOC does not command or control on-scene response efforts, but does carry out the
coordination functions through:
1. Collecting, evaluating and disseminating incident information;
2. Analyzing jurisdictional impacts and setting priority actions; and
3. Managing requests, procurement and utilization of resources.
Organization and Assignment Responsibilities Line of Succession:
Overall responsibility for this plan falls in the hands of the Emergency Management Manager of
Summit County. Second in command would be the Incident Commander. Other Senior
Leadership positions that have shared responsibility for this plan would be the Liaison Officer,
Safety Officer, and Public Media Informant.
Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities Senior Official Responsibilities:
The Incident Management Team has the decision making authority throughout all stages of an
emergency event. The Incident Management team will make up of multiple members allowing
them to work harder and break up the job to ensure faster results. Some examples of the
members joined in on the Incident Management Team would be
Safety Officer- Environmental Health and Safety
Public Information Officer- Dealing with the Media
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Finance/Administration Chief- Dealing with the finance of the emergency event
Responsibilities Emergency Operations Center Manager:
The Emergency Management County Manager of Summit County has been assigned the
Emergency Operations Center Manager.
Responsibilities include to route all mission assignments, coordinate missions that may require
the help of other branches, resolve any conflicts among other agencies, and identify and support
resource requests.
Responsibilities of Liaison Officer
The Liaison Officer must be a Contact point for Emergency Managers. Must also maintain a list
of supporting agencies. Monitor Check in sheets daily as well. Keep agencies supporting the
incident awareness of incident status, and participate in all meetings.
Responsibilities Continuity of Operations:
Summit County has developed an annex for COOP. COOP plan is a collection of resources,
actions, procedures, and information that is developed, tested, and held in readiness for use in the
event of a major disruption of operations.
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Direction, Control, and Coordination:
Overview:
In this section, Summit County breaks down on how they control incidents to our best
capabilities and describe the process on how they are handled and treated by everyone that is a
part of their organization. Multiple agencies work with one another through unified command.
By using Unified Command, it enables everyone to work together precisely sharing all the same
knowledge gained through others. It unifies agencies all to work together, to share critical
information adequately and effectively, and speeds up the process on how fast Summit County is
able to return the incident back to normal after it occurred.
Area Command is another strategy that can also help improve our effectiveness. By overseeing
the management of multiple incidents that are each managed by the ICS organization and
overseeing the management of large incidents that cross jurisdictional boundaries. Regardless of
size of the incident of where it occurred at, knowing how we can manage such incidents are
crucial in understanding the differences between large incidents and small incidents.
For responding units to be notified when an incident occurs, citizens should dial 911 and explain
what happened, when it happened, and where it happened. From that point, the operator will
have to make decisions based off the size of the incident and report to others what agencies
would be best suited for dealing with a specific incident.
The highest ranking official with the most experience should take over the position of Incident
Commander. The position requires someone to have a deep understanding of a plethora of
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incidents, quick to make critical decisions in time of need, and lastly someone who can
communicate very well with others.
The most common situations that Summit County faces are small scale incidents whether it’s
burglary, assault, or fire. Such agencies that will be responding units to the initial IC are the
police, fire department, emergency medical services, and infrastructure.
Incident Assessment Responsibilities for Incident Commander:
The Incident Commander is the person responsible for all aspects of an emergency response;
including quickly developing incident objectives, managing all incident operations, application
of resource as well as responsibility for all persons involved. The Incident Commander must also
be able to assess the incident priorities to determine the strategy and tactics that will be used. The
priorities are life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation.
Incident Action Plan:
An Incident Action Plan (IAP) is organized course of events that addresses all phases of incident
control within a specified time. An Incident Action Plan is necessary to effect successful
outcomes in any situation, especially emergency operations, in a timely manner. The IAP
establishes the overall incident priority objectives, and strategies in the contexts of both
operational and support activities. Every incident must have an action plan not all incidents
require written plans. Most initial response operations are not captured with a formal IAP.
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“Planning P” Phases:
Phase 1: Understand the situation
Phase 2: Establish Incident Objectives
Phase 3: Develop the Plan
Phase 4: Prepare and Disseminate the Plan
Phase 5: Execute, evaluate, and revise the Plan
Understanding the situation:
Incident Objectives:
1.) Provide for publics’ safety, health, welfare, and security by treating the sick and injured,
managing fatalities, and providing for the orderly evacuation and care of the displaced.
2.) Provide for the responders’ safety, health, welfare, and security.
3.) Maintain Civil Order and provide for security and investigation.
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4.) Provide for search and rescue of the trapped and missing, contain, control, mitigate all
hazardous materials.
5.) Restore control and normality back to the origin of incident as soon as possible.
Developing the Incident Action Plan (IAP)
When developing the IAP, there is a list of things that must be covered. Operations tactics
meetings must be held frequently to understand how it operates as a whole. It is to also ensure
that the tactics are in line with objectives. Each section chief should participate in these
meetings.
Prepare and Disseminate the IAP
Planning meetings should take place after every three months to ensure the IAP to its full
potential. It is also vital to develop the plan with all positions for deep analysis for any areas that
may be unclear or not-useful.
Execute, Evaluate, Revise the IAP
Operations briefings should be conducted every month. Revisions are needed when checked
upon again in these meetings.
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Assistance from other Supporting Agencies:
Capabilities and Responsibilities
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Being able to properly communicate information with one another.
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Lessen the effects of the incident as much as possible.
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Being on time with anything that may occur
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Gather as much vital information as possible to help with the incident.
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Be able to communicate in time of need with one another agencies.
Multiagency Coordination:
ICS enables responders from different jurisdictions and disciplines to work together specifically
for Summit County. It provides a flexible framework and has a unified approach to incident
management; a standard command and management structure; an emphasis on preparedness,
mutual aid, and resource support
Multiagency Coordination System (MAC):
Multiagency Coordination System (MAC) are a part of the United States standardized Incident
Command System. MAC provides basic architecture for facilitating the allocation of resources,
incident prioritization, coordination and integration of multiple agencies for large-scale incidents
and emergencies.
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Information Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination:
Overview:
Throughout this section, Summit County will provide its citizens with helpful information to
access in the time of an incident. Summit County will also inform about how it collects data and
analyzes it. This section will inform citizens how we handle public safety communications (such
as AMBER ALERTS and Emergency Alert Systems) to them effectively.
Public Safety Communications:
Public Safety Communications are implemented 24/7 throughout Summit County. Coordinated
Communications with the Summit County Police Department, Summit County Fire Department,
and local health agencies. Summit County will have its own contact point for its own AMBER
ALERTS and Emergency Alerts for all of the surrounding counties in North Eastern Ohio. The
following information will include additional notifications as well.
Weather Notifications:
Weather Notifications are implemented as frequently as all the other communications.
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The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) uses weather radio
transmissions to relay potential dangerous weather advisories to Summit County when
reported.
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Cellular device notifications will be used when needed to inform citizens on severe
weather that may put them at risk to injury or loss of property.
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Licensed amateur radio operators/ NWS Skywarn Weather Spotters will give us daily
reports for Summit County weather where it will be documented and kept for records.
Emergency Alert System:
The Emergency Alert System is a national public warning system that requires TV and radio
broadcasters, cable television systems, satellite digital audio service providers, direct broadcast
satellite service providers and wireline video services to offer the president of communications
capability to address the American public during a national emergency.
Communications that first responders shall use are phones equipped with either LTE or 4G to
guarantee coverage from anywhere they report it. This allows us to work at a fast pace to be able
to assess the situation that is unfolding or may start to unfold.
AMBER Alert System:
An AMBER Alert or Child Abduction Emergency is a child abduction report system. AMBER is
officially a contrived acronym for America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response. For an
AMBER alert to be set in place the law enforcement agency of Summit County must believe that
the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death. There is enough descriptive
information about the victim and the abduction for law enforcement to issue an AMBER Alert to
assist in the recovery of the abducted child.
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The surrounding eight counties fall in the EOP’s guidelines for using an AMBER Alert. Only
law enforcement can request an AMBER alert when a child is abducted. Members of the public
cannot request an AMBER Alert. Instead, they can contact law enforcement and report that the
child is missing.
Once law enforcement has determined that a child has been abducted and the abduction meets
AMBER Alert criteria, law enforcement notifies broadcasters and state transportation officials.
AMBER Alerts interrupt regular programming and are broadcast on radio and television and
DOT highway signs. AMBER Alerts can also be re-disseminated through lottery, digital
billboards, Internet Ad exchanges, Internet Service Providers, Internet search engines, as well as
wireless devices such as mobile phones.
Critical Facility Notification
Certain facilities, due to their standards, locations and/or functions, are considered critical and
have specific notification regulations. Such plans that various facilities operate are SARA Title
III, The Emergency Planning, and Community Right-To-Know-Act. Law requires all facilities
meeting threshold chemical quantities to notify the Office of Emergency Management. Proper
notification includes contact information for facility representatives and information related to
chemical type, quantity, storage, and usage. The Emergency Management Administrator
annually maintains this information and updates it when needed to be.
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All of the operating facilities are needed to meet the criteria as often as needed to be. It is the
responsibility of all facilities to keep up with new information as often as possible. The meet the
criteria by analyzing certain events and keeping documentation of all basic information of these
events.
Public Information and Notification
The Joint Information Center (JIS): Provides the mechanism to organize, integrate, and
coordinate information to ensure timely, accurate, accessible, and consistent messaging across
multiple jurisdictions and/or disciplines with nongovernmental organizations and the private
sector.
Joint information center means a facility established to arrange all incident-related
public information activities. It serves as the physical location where public information officials
can locate to perform critical emergency information, crisis communications, and public affairs
functions.
Social media will be involved such as making accounts for all forms of mass media services to
keep our citizens up to date on certain things. We will update our pages as often as we feel
needed to.
The Media will be able to gather in specific designated locations around Summit County. Media
is not allowed in the EOC or in the same building/complex of other facilities.
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Communications:
The Summit County – Akron 800MHz Regional Radio System (SCA8RRS) is a Motorola
Solutions 800MHz Mixed Mode Trunked Radio System. The system supports more than 6,000
analog and digital radios with the capacity to carry twenty-four simultaneous calls.
There is a plethora of forms of communication in Summit County. Whether it may be through
telephones, cell phones, fax, social media pages, or even emails. Making sure our citizen have
proper communications is ideal to us here in Summit County.
Administration, Finance, Logistics, and Plan Maintenance:
Overview:
In this section, Summit County will cover over agencies that are heavily involved when an
incident occurs. Rules and assignments will be implemented in various positions. Other things
that will be discussed are staffing considerations, mutual aid, documentation, and
reimbursement.
Employees of the Emergency Management Team in Summit County will be given various
positions based of their school and experience. These positions will be reassigned if someone
was to or if someone was released from their duties. Volunteer plans may be implemented if felt
the need to, such as CERT’s and LEPC’s.
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The Ohio Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact (IMAC), Ohio Revised Code Section 5502.41, was
updated on July 3, 2012. IMAC is mutual aid agreement through which all political subdivisions
can request and receive assistance from any other political subdivisions in the state; many of the
administrative and legal issues are resolved in advance of an incident. All political subdivisions
are automatically part of IMAC. The definition of political subdivision is broad and includes not
only counties, municipal corporations, villages and townships, but also port authorities, local
health districts, joint fire districts, and state institutions of higher education.
EMAC, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact is an all hazards - all disciplines
mutual aid compact that serves as the cornerstone of the nation's mutual aid system.
EMAC is the first national disaster–relief compact since the Civil Defense and Disaster Compact
of 1950 to be ratified by the U.S. Congress. Since ratification and signing into law in 1996
(Public Law 104-321), 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S.
Virgin Islands have enacted legislation to become EMAC members.
Finance/Administration Section
The Finance/Administration Section:
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Is established when incident management activities require finance and other administrative
support services.
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Handles claims related to property damage, injuries, or fatalities at the incident.
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Finance/Administration responsibilities include the following:
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The Time Unit is responsible for equipment and personnel time recording.
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The Procurement Unit is responsible for administering all financial matters pertaining to
vendor contracts, leases, and fiscal agreements.
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The Compensation/Claims Unit is responsible for financial concerns resulting from property
damage, injuries, or fatalities at the incident.
The Cost Unit is responsible for tracking costs, analyzing cost data, making cost estimates, and
recommending cost-saving measures.
Federal Reimbursement Process:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will reimburse for services provided
through mutual aid agreements, like EMAC. FEMA will reimburse mutual aid costs if the aid
was requested (i.e., no spontaneous responders), the assistance requested directly related to a
disaster eligible for FEMA assistance, and the assistance occurred under a signed, written mutual
aid agreement.4 Only the entity requesting mutual aid (the requesting state) is eligible to apply
for grant assistance directly from FEMA; entities providing aid (assisting states) must seek
reimbursement from the requesting state.
Plan Development and Maintenance:
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In this section, Summit County will be describing topics such as training, public education,
exercise approach, development of their plan and other key factors that make the plan as
effective as it is.
The responsibility for development and maintenance of the EOP falls on everyone who is
involved in writing and planning the EOP. “All changed and revisions to this plan are prepared,
coordinated, published, and distributed in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local
guidelines. The command team certifies the completeness, accuracy, and currency of the EOP.
Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidance for developing emergency
operations plans. It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of risk-informed
planning and decision making to help planners examine a hazard or threat and produce
integrated, coordinated, and synchronized plans.
Training occurs when Summit County was to test certain protocol whether it be communications
with agencies or participating in a fake disaster scenario to test operations. Public Education is a
pivotal idea that we keep close to our hearts. With all the surrounding schools in Summit County
we feel like it our duties to keep them in a safe condition. Exercise approach is when we engage
in exercises to figure out things that we could maybe do faster/better.
Plan development comes into play with the help of the citizens of Summit County. We believe
that Citizens know best about all the potential hazards and incidents that may take place in
Summit County. Plan development Is a long process that we seek to perfectly execute to ensure
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our safety and knowledge of potential threats. The planning structure is broken into parts by
different sections of our Emergency Management Team. Meetings occur every month to help
with plan improvement. We gather around and discuss and debate our plan to find any gray areas
that may need extra work on.
Authorities and References:
Overview:
Throughout this section, we will be informing the list of laws, statues, ordinances, executive
orders, regulations, and formal agreements in Summit County. This section lets the citizens of
Summit County aware of the rules that they must abide by.
There is a long list of ordinance codes that pertain to the safety of people, animals, buildings, and
cars in Summit County. Such regulations are keeping up with car insurance, taxes, and installing
fire alarms in every home in Summit County.
The Summit County Courthouse Lions are two seated lions created out of limestone slab in front
of the courthouse in Akron, Ohio.
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References:
Remaining October 2018 Events. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.summitcountycalendar.com/event/month/10/2018
Transit Options. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.downtownakron.com/gettingaround/transit-options
Summit County Engineer's Office. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.summitengineer.net/projects-and-initiatives/stormwater-management
Summit County Ohio Hospitals. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://ohio.hometownlocator.com/features/cultural,class,hospital,scfips,39153.cfm
Summit County. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Summit_County
Water Distribution Division. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.akronohio.gov/cms/Water/Distribution/index.html
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