East MontCo Emergency Mgmt

Since September 11, 2001 the Public Safety Community (Fire, Police and Emergency Medical Services) has trained to prepare for the worst and strive for the best possible outcome for all incidents. To this end, once every three years, the Eastern Montgomery County Emergency Management Group plans and executes a “disaster” exercise to help area municipalities and emergency responders prepare for large scale incidents and evaluate ways to improve performance. Groups involved in the training include police departments with SWAT and MERT teams; fire departments with hazmat operations; search and rescue teams; municipalities’ public works departments; area hospitals emergency departments and emergency response teams; the county dispatch center and mobile operations; emergency medical services and the American Red Cross.

The Eastern Montgomery County Emergency Management Group will be holding a weather related disaster planning event, on the morning of Sunday, October 18, 2009 at various locations across eastern Montgomery county. In order to help us successfully be able to drill, we are asking for help from the community in the form of adult volunteer “victims”.

Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham is a major shelter site for this exercise.

Volunteers - and their pets - are needed to test the emergency management agencies ability to process victims. Total time required for each person is 30-45 minutes.

Please contact Andrea Kelly if you have any questions or would like to participate. Volunteers will be asked to complete a volunteer form which can be downloaded below.

Disaster Planning Volunteer Form