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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU:
As we move into Federal Fiscal Year
2011, we will strive to build a comprehensive planning, training and exercise
section within the Division of Emergency Management (DEM). As our team builds
toward the future, so do our ambitions to provide you with the best service
possible, to build a strong, well equipped, well planned, well trained, and well
exercised emergency management community.
OUR
Planning Staff -
is
responsible for statewide emergency preparedness,
including ongoing enhancement
of the Nevada State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (SCEMP) and the
coordination with local and state plans, using an all hazards approach that
encompasses natural disasters and man-made disasters, from hazardous materials
to intentional acts of terrorism. Preparedness activities include updating and
maintaining the SCEMP; developing and coordinating Nevada's anti-terrorism plans
and programs including the State Terrorism Incident Annex; planning for and
response to hazardous materials; serving as the lead for the state Emergency
Support Function Liaison Program; coordinating and facilitating participation in
interstate and intrastate mutual aid agreements; conducting an annual review of
Nevada’s county emergency preparedness plans with a focus on providing guidance
for improving county-to-county and county-to-state interface; updating and
maintaining Emergency Operations Center standard operating procedures and
training federal, state and local agency personnel on EOC activities; and
facilitating After-Action-Review's of state emergency response, recovery and
exercises. Please us the following link to review latest planning guidance
issued by FEMA, CPG101
OUR Training Staff-
is responsible for facilitating quality training to increase and enhance the
knowledge, skills and abilities of local emergency managers and their community
partners. We are in the process of bringing together other state agencies into a
partnership that will enhance all first responders and emergency managers while
continuing to provide quality training to the citizens of our state. Our vision
is to build a self-sustaining training program that will secure our capabilities
throughout Nevada in support of the State and UASI Strategy.
DEM utilizes courses developed
from the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) comprised of: FEMA’s
National Emergency Training Center/Emergency Management Institute (EMI), Center
for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Alabama, the New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology (NMIMT), Louisiana State University (LSU), Texas A&M
University (TEEX), and the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site (NTS).
OUR Exercise Staff-
is committed to providing the Nevada emergency management community, emergency
response professionals, volunteers, and the private sector with the means to
produce quality exercises that improves the preparedness of the State of Nevada,
its citizens and resources. This is accomplished through the use of a
State-wide exercise program: the Nevada Exercise Program (NEP), which includes
standardized policies, processes, products, and assistance in all aspects of
exercises. The NEP is an all hazard, multi-discipline, multi-jurisdictional
program that utilizes a building-block approach with exercises of increasing
complexity and scope.
Exercises validate capabilities
of individuals, teams, organizations and communities to prevent, protect,
respond, and recover from the effects of all emergency/disaster events. In
order to successfully accomplish the validation of capabilities exercises need
to have consistent processes for development, conduct, and evaluation. The
Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) provides this
consistency. All exercises conducted in Nevada, utilizing Federal grant funds,
are required to adopt the principles and guidance provided in HSEEP.
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