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<br />Ramsey County-Wide Emergency Operations Plan <br /> <br />Revision 5.1, June, 2005 <br /> <br />Ramsey County Incident Manager <br />IMPLEMENTATION <br /> <br />Emergencies will be reported to the local Public Safety Answering Point <br />(PSAP). The PSAP will notify the EMHS Duty Officer and/or the Sheriff. <br />The EMHS Duty Officer or the Sheriff will make the initial determination to <br />implement this plan. Formal implementation of the plan simply involves <br />notifying the County Manager and the Director of Emergency <br />Management and Homeland Security of the situation. As soon as the <br />decision is made to contact these persons, this plan is considered to be <br />implemented. <br /> <br />GENERAL <br /> <br />Initially, Director of EMHS or the County Sheriff (or their designees) will fill <br />the role of the Incident Manager for the County. This may be limited to <br />coordination of county-based activities, gathering information and <br />intelligence, and assessing the situation to determine what level of <br />activation of the county is needed, and notifying County administrators. <br /> <br />Once he or she is able to reach the scene of an incident or respond to the <br />RCEOC, the County Manager will be the Incident Manager for the County, <br />unless and until slhe designates another person to fill this role. <br /> <br />EMHS will assist as possible in these activities and will keep in contact <br />with the County Manager as he or she establishes the RCEOC and <br />gathers staff together there. We recognize that organizing the county's <br />governmental Incident Management System will take time and that the <br />team members will need information upon which to act. We also recognize <br />that delaying some urgent actions until the teams can assemble would <br />unduly jeopardize safety and property. <br /> <br />Thus, the earliest hours of the county's involvement in an event will <br />typically revolve around activities of the Sheriff's office and the EMHS <br />staff. In those situations where there is time for deliberate organization <br />before the event or emergency develops, the county Incident Manager will <br />be selected by the County Manager based on which agency's field of <br />expertise best matches the scope of operations needed to successfully <br />cope with the incident. <br /> <br />LOCAL ANDIOR UNSPECIFIED EVENT: EMHS staff responding to the <br />scene will serve as a liaison to the On Scene Commander and will initially <br />be the Incident Manager for county resources working in a Unified <br />Command Structure. <br /> <br />39 <br />