Emergency managment

Benjamin Newton

The Emergency Operations Plan or EOP is broken down into 3 basic formats. The first is the Agency/Department-Focused format that is designed for smaller communities that rely on the larger communities for support. The second the traditional functional format that has been the cornerstone of all formats and mainly pertains to a sizable population and how they would would respond within the cities jurisdiction. Lastly, the emergency support function format is more geared to the larger cities that provides services and support for the smaller communities along with their own.

Due to the size of Montgomery AL and given the fact it is the capital of the state, I can see the Emergency Support Function format being the one they would most likely use. The key component to this plan is ensuring that the government personnel are still capacitated during a disaster to carry out the parts of the plan. When this plan gets drafted, it has to focus not only on the city itself but what other areas would they have to provide support to in an event of a natural disaster. So within this plan, there is a support annex that details what the town's capabilities are and what the state would have to do to off set the resources. It also goes further to break down how two agencies would work together to ensure that the town performs and volunteers.

The part I'll be drafting a plan is for the Public Health and Medical Services Annex in which will require great detail on how the City of Montgomery not only handles the medical treatment within its own jurisdiction but also coordinate services and quarantine actions in other nearby towns.

FEMA (2010). Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans. Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 v2. Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1828-25045-0014/cpg_101_comprehensive_preparedness_guide_developing_and_maintaining_emergency_operations_plans_2010.pdf