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<br />Rarnse}. County-Wide Emergency Operations Plan <br /> <br />Revision 5.1, June, 2005 <br /> <br />APPENDIX C: RA <br />EM <br />SE <br /> <br /> <br />Roles and Responsibilities <br /> <br />The overall duty of EMHS with respect to this plan is to coordinate all <br />emergency preparedness, response, mitigation, recovery and homeland <br />security plans within the county in order to ensure unity of purpose, reduce <br />or eliminate duplication of effort, and to better ensure the sharing of <br />resources and ideas in this regard. Specifically, EMHS will: <br /> <br />Prior to an Emergency <br /> <br />Subject to oversight by the County Manager, EMHS has authority and <br />responsibility for organizing, directing and coordinating the emergency <br />organization of the county, including training, directing the <br />development of county departmental emergency operations plans, <br />directing the development of county Operational Continuity/Disaster <br />Recovery plans, and review and approval of these plans. <br /> <br />EMHS staffs the role of EMHS Duty Officer and as such is the primary <br />point of contact for activating this plan and notifying the various county <br />departments. <br /> <br />EMHS is responsible for developing, maintaining, exercising and <br />procuring state approval of this plan. Prior to that the EMC and the <br />Board of Commissioners shall approve this plan. EMHS works to <br />establish and maintain liaison with the county departments and units <br />not directly represented on the emergency management council <br />regarding emergency preparedness activities, as well as coordinating <br />the efforts of the units specifically mentioned in the plan and on the <br />EMC. <br /> <br />EMHS has established and maintains liaison with the municipal <br />governments and any and all governmental or quasi-governmental <br />organizations within Ramsey County regarding their planning, <br />preparedness and response to emergencies. We also serve as liaison <br />with volunteer organizations active in emergency and disaster <br />situations. <br /> <br />During the Crisis Phase <br /> <br />The EMHS duty officer will commonly be the initial Incident Manager <br />for the county's interest in an event and, in this role, will make an <br />assessment regarding the level of activation required. If the incident <br /> <br />113 <br />