 Hampshire County Regional Emergency Planning Exercise To Be Held At UMass Amherst Oct. 29
Oct. 23, 2008
AMHERST, Mass. – The Hampshire Regional Emergency Planning Committee and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will host a regional emergency planning tabletop exercise on Wednesday, Oct. 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Amherst Room on the 10th floor of the university’s Campus Center.
The purpose of the tabletop exercise is to test parts of the Hampshire Regional Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Plan as well as parts of the UMass Amherst emergency response plan. The main exercise will focus on the regional impact of a hazardous materials incident occurring at the university’s new central heating plant. In addition, there will be a breakout session led by officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will focus on an emergency planning scenario impacting Hampshire County communities.
Invited participants include Hampshire County fire and police departments, emergency medical services, emergency management, public health and public works representatives as well as hospital administrators, transit officials, higher education personnel and local, state and federal officials. Don Boyce, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, will attend the exercise.
This exercise is funded through a grant by the EPA and the Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council.
For more information, contact Michael Spanknebel at 413/584-0874 or Todd Zukowski at 413/781-6045.
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