Preventing Home Ignitions

 

"Wildfire!

 

Preventing Home Ignitions" is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A "home ignition zone," the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's ignition resistance during a severe wildfire. Some of the areas covered are: how the combustion process causes home ignitions; how some homes are destroyed while others survive; and how your most effective home protection efforts can occur within the "home ignition zone". This program is a product of Jack Cohen's research at the Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, MT and part of Firewise Communities.

 

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The Pendleton County

 Local Emergency Planning Committee Meeting

 

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

 

7:00 p.m.

 

Pendleton County Community Center

 

John Anderson

Fire Forester/Presenter

 

Light refreshments will be served.

Contact Edna Mullenax for more information

304 358-3889 or mullenaxed@yahoo.com















 

Pendleton County Local Emergency

Planning Committee

Meeting

April 28, 2010

Pendleton County Community Center

7:00 p.m.

 

 

Agenda

 

 

Introductions

 

 

Old Business

 

Minutes from January 27, 2010 Meeting

 

Treasure Report

 

Purchasing promotional products for Health Fairs, trainings, educational programs etc. (CC MINI Grant)

 

 

New Business

 

JH Consulting/Jeff Harvey leading in the “Sharing Information” workshop for the revision and updating of the Pendleton County Emergency Operation Plan.

 

Announcements

 

Command School Table Top Drill/Saturday May 22nd and May 23th @ South Fork Fire Department in Brandywine.

 

Next Meeting “tentative” Date/Place/Time

July 28, 2010 @ 7:00 p.m. @ Pendleton County Community Building

 

 

Adjournment

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Pendleton County LEPC Meeting

January 27, 2010    7:00 p.m.

Pendleton County Community Center

 

Those attending: Tech Turner (DEP), Ona and Mary Hedrick, (Franklin Citizen Corps) Janet Underwood, (PCC) Macie Dahmer, (CERT) Tanya Nelson,   (UTFVD)Paul Mallow, (FVFD) C. Sue Alt,  (UTFVD) Joyce George, (UTFVD) Tammie and Jerry Bowers, (SRVFD) Bruce Minor, (FVFD) Gregory Stump, (UTFD) Mike Alt, (UTFVD) Wayne Huffman, (SFVFD)Carl L.Warner, (CVFD) David Plume (Presenter/RESA 8) and Edna Mullenax (LEPC Chair)

 

Introductions

 

Presentation: Guest speaker David Plume, RESA 8 Public Service Training Coordinator. David will be sharing information on a new training program-“HazMat Orientation”. This program was produced in a cooperative effort of the WV Department of Education, WVU Fire Service Extension, and WV State Fire Marshal’s office.

 

Old Business

Minutes from October Meeting and Treasure Report was read by Edna. Tech Turner moved that the minutes and treasure report be approved as read, Ona Hedrick second and motion carried.

 

Update on EOP (Emergency Operation Plan) LEPC Grant was awarded for the purpose of updating the County EOP (Emergency Operation Plan) and making it NIMS (National Incident Management System) Proposal for the project with JH Consulting, LLC was reviewed and approved.  The fee for the project would be a sum of $4,200.00. This fee includes all hourly and direct expenses necessary to complete the project. Edna and Curtis Crigler (OEM Director) meet with Mr. Harvey on January 25th and discussed the Annexs and how to update the plan. Mr. Harvey suggested having mini workshops with those that each Annex would pertain too. Also, there would be a general group meeting before approved plan printing.

 

New  Business

Updates and discussion from Tech Turner/DEP concerning recent incidents. Tech Turner from the DEP (Department of Environment Protection discussed the Judy Gap Battery Truck clean up. There may be some problems with a Law Suit concerning the transportation of the hazard materials. Will keep us updated. Also, the gas spill at Seneca Rocks, the VFD did a good job with the clean up. Follow up clean up may cost up to $10,000. Tech encourages the VFDS to call the DEP when dealing with any and all hazard material incidents.

 

Edna discussed that we are in need of purchasing promotional products for Health Fairs, trainings, educational programs etc. Ona Hedrick suggested that we apply for a Citizen Corps Mini Grants to purchases the products.

 

Announcements

 

Next Meeting “tentative” Date/Place/Time

 

April 28th @ 7:00 p.m. @ Pendleton County Community Building

 

Adjournment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click HERE  for the new LEPC Newsletter!

 

 

Pendleton County Local Emergency Planning Committee

 

A local Emergency Planning

Organization serving Pendleton County

 

       MEMBERSHIP

PC LEPC member organization shares an interest in emergency response planning and related activities for Pendleton County. Members represent a broad cross section of the community and come from the following groups.

·         Citizen

·         Elected Officials

·         Law Enforcement

·         Fire Fighters

·         Emergency Medical Services

·         Public Health Officials

·         Hospitals

·         Transportation

·         Nonprofits

·         911 Center

·         News Media

·         School Officials

·         Businesses

·         Community Groups

 

WHAT DOES THE PC LEPC DO?

Vision and Mission

·         Bring together community resources in Pendleton County to create a common plan for responding to emergencies.

·         Sponsors drills that test the emergency response plan’s effectiveness.

·         Evaluates the plan’s effectiveness after actual incidents and revises the plan accordingly.

·         Provides citizens with information about the location of toxic chemicals in their community.

 

Community Right To Know

A 1986 federal law give s citizens the right to know about the location of toxic chemicals in their communities. Consistent with that law and laws passed since then, the PC LEPC makes information about those chemicals available to the public on request.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN

The PC LEPC facilitates the creation and maintenance of an all-hazard emergency management plan for the county. The plan covers all types of emergencies caused by nature, human error or intentional acts. The plan is available for public inspection at libraries and the Office of Emergency Management website www.pendletoncountyoem.com

The plan describes specific types of emergencies that could affect this region. It also describes planning and actins for responding to these emergencies. 

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Pendleton County Local Emergency

Planning Committee

Meeting

January 27, 2010

Pendleton County Community Center

7:00 p.m.

 

Agenda

 

 

Introductions

 

Presentation: Guest speaker David Plume, RESA 8 Public Service Training Coordinator. David will be sharing information on a new training program-“HazMat Orientation”. This program was produced in a cooperative effort of the WV Department of Education, WVU Fire Service Extension, and WV State Fire Marshal’s office.

 

Old Business

 

Minutes from October Meeting

 

Treasure Report

 

Update on updating the EOP (Emergency Operation Plan)

 

New  Business

 

Updates and discussion from Tech Turner/DEP concerning recent incidents

 

Purchasing promotional products for Health Fairs, trainings, educational programs etc.

 

Announcements

 

Next Meeting “tentative” Date/Place/Time

April 28th  @  7:00 p.m. @ Pendleton County Community Building

 

Adjournment


 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
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