1. LEPC MEETING – CALDWELL & RICHMOND COUNTIES TEACHING & COMMUNICATION - PREPAREDNESS, READINESS & PREVENTION. PRACTICES MUST BE TAUGHT, IF NOT, OUR REPLACEMENTS WILL BE CONDEMNED TO CREATE & REPEAT PAST FAILURES.

2. RICHMOND COUNTY 46,000+ population 9 Fire Departments Estimated 300 Firefighters In 2014, 27 Chemical facilities reported.

3. CALDWELL COUNTY 81,000+ Population 13 Fire Departments 721 Firefighters 56 chemical reporting facilities

4. E PLAN TIER II REPORTING / RICHMOND COUNTY In 2012, we had 28 facilities reporting. In 2013, we had 26 facilities reporting. In 2014, we had 27 facilities reporting.

5. E-PLAN AND TIER II REPORTING / CALDWELL COUNTY

6. WHO DOES THIS HELP. Citizens – Saves Life, Saves Property (values) Business – Quicker Identifier Tailored Evacuation, Industries – Decreases liability by reporting Schools – Can be planed out of harms way. Fire/Rescue/EMS - Knows what they a responding too. Can train on those issues at hand. Government – Property Revenue, Planning around possibilities of occurrences.

7. WHY WE NEED E PLAN? What is the chemical? E-plan gives! How bad is it? E-plan gives! Where is the population? Which way is the wind blowing. E-plan gives! What is the weather doing? E-plan gives! How far do we evacuate? E-plan gives! Do we evacuate? E-plan gives! I need a map! E-plan gives! LEPC needs to promote the use and practice of reporting to E-plan.

8. WHY WE NEED LEPC. COMMUNICATION

9. COMMUNICATIONS WITH AND TO WHOM:  Emergency Management  Fire / EMS  Law Enforcement  Industrial / Manufacturing  911 / Communications  Public Health  Public Utilities  Hospitals  Economic Development  Business Retail and Wholesale  CERT  Citizen Groups  Citizens These all set on the LEPC.

10. JOINT INFORMATION CENTER

11. HAZMAT EXERCISE Table top – $1000.00 Full Scale - $ 7,000 – 20,000.00 Funding ???? Required Exercises  Emergency Management  Fire / EMS  Law Enforcement  Industrial / Manufacturing  911 / Communications  Public Health  Public Utilities  Hospitals  Economic Development  Business Retail and Wholesale  CERT  Citizen Groups  Citizens

12. TRAINING Training not only for responders, but for citizens, manufacturers, developers, Public Health, Hospital, Planners, and others.

13. AROUND THE ROOM:

14. QUESTIONS Kenneth A. Teague (TWIG) Caldwell County Emergency Management Coordinator Po Box 2200 Lenoir, North Carolina 28645 kteague@caldwellcountync.org 828-850-3947