HOWELL COUNTY and the cities of Mountain View, Brandsville West Plains and Willow Springs Emergency Operations Plan Prepared by OFFICIALS OF HOWELL COUNTY AND THE CITIES OF MOUNTAIN VIEW, WEST PLAINS AND WILLOW SPRINGS and THE STATE OF MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY October 2018 Howell County Page i October 2018 This page intentionally left blank. Howell County Page ii October 2018 SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION LIST 1. Howell County Commission ............................................................................................... 3 2. West Plains Mayor .............................................................................................................. 1 3. Willow Springs Mayor ........................................................................................................ 1 4. Mountain View Mayor ....................................................................................................... 1 5. Howell County Emergency Management Director ............................................................. 1 6. West Plains Police/Fire Departments .................................................................................. 2 7. Willow Springs Emergency Management Director ............................................................ 1 8. Mountain View Emergency Management Director ............................................................ 1 9. Howell County Sheriff’s Office .......................................................................................... 1 10 Willow Springs Police Department ..................................................................................... 1 11. Mountain View Police department ...................................................................................... 1 12. Howell County Road & Bridge Department ....................................................................... 1 13. Howell County Coroner ...................................................................................................... 1 14. Howell County Rural School Districts………………………………………………………..8 15. Ozark Medical Center .......................................................................................................... 1 16. St. Francis Hospital ............................................................................................................. 1 17. Howell County American Red Cross .................................................................................. 1 18. Howell County Division of Family services ....................................................................... 1 19. South Howell County Ambulance District .......................................................................... 1 20. Howell County Health Department Services ...................................................................... 1 21. Willow Springs Ambulance District ................................................................................... 1 22. Mountain View Ambulance District ................................................................................... 1 23. Howell County LEPC ......................................................................................................... 1 24. Howell County Fire Departments ..................................................................................... 13 25. Highway Patrol, Troop G, Willow Springs ......................................................................... 1 26. Missouri Emergency Response Commission ...................................................................... 1 27. State Emergency Management Agency ............................................................................... 1 28. Missouri Department of Transportation (Willow Springs) …………………………...………1 29. Air Evac ……………………………………………………………………….…………..1 30. Missouri Department of Conservation (West Plains) ……………………………………..….1 31 Missouri Department of Agriculture (West Plains) ………………………………………..…1 32. 911 Communications Center…. ……………………………………………………..…..1 33. Howell County Clerk………… ………………………………………………………….1 34. Howell County Assessor……… …………………………………………………..……1 35. Mountain View School Superintendent……………………………………………...…….1 36 West Plains School Superintendent…………..……………………………………………1 37. Willow Springs School Superintendent……………………………………………………1 38. Brandsville Mayor………………………………………………………………………....1 TOTAL .................................................................. 60 Howell County Page iii October 2018 This page intentionally left blank. Howell County Page iv October 2018 RECORD OF CHANGES CHANGE DATE OF DATE PAGE CHANGE MADE BY NUMBER CHANGE ENTERED NUMBER (SIGNATURE) Howell County Page v October 2018 This page intentionally left blank. Howell County Page vi October 2018 FOREWORD A. This Emergency Operations Plan lays a framework that will allow Howell County and the cities of West Plains, Willow Springs and Mountain View and Brandsville to save lives, minimize injuries, protect property and the environment, preserve functioning civil government, insure constituted authority, and maintain economic activities essential to the survival and recovery from natural and man-made disasters. It is not the intent of this plan to deal with those events that happen on a daily basis, which do not cause widespread problems and are handled routinely by city and/or county agencies. B. This plan follows the principles and processes outlined in the National Incident Management System (NIMS). As a result, this plan institutionalizes the concepts and principles of the NIMS and the Incident Command System (ICS) into the response and recovery operations conducted within Howell County and the cities of West Plains, Willow Springs, and Mountain View and Brandsville. C. The NIMS provides a consistent, flexible and adjustable national framework within which government and private entities at all levels can work together to manage domestic incidents, regardless of their cause, size, location or complexity. This flexibility applies across all phases of incident management: prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. D. This plan was developed through the collaborative efforts of Howell County and the cities of West Plains, Willow Springs, and Mountain View and Brandsville Emergency Management Coordinators, other governmental and private entities throughout Howell County and the cities of West Plains, Willow Springs, and Mountain View and Brandsville, and with assistance provided by the State Emergency Management Agency. During the development of this plan various agencies, organizations, and city and county governments were interviewed to discuss their roles, responsibilities, and capabilities in an emergency. This plan is a result of their input, and has been updated to reflect changes in Howell County and the cities of West Plains, Willow Springs, and Mountain View and Brandsville emergency operations since the June, 1992 edition. E. The Howell County and cities of West Plains, Willow Springs and Mountain View and Brandsville EOP is a multi-hazard, functional plan, broken into three components; (1) a basic plan that serves as an overview of the jurisdiction’s approach to emergency management, (2) annexes that address specific activities critical to emergency response and recovery, and (3) appendices which support each annex and contain technical information, details, and methods for use in emergency operations F. The Basic Plan is to be used primarily be the chief executive and public policy officials of the jurisdiction but all individuals/agencies involved in the EOP should be familiar with it. The annexes are to be used be the operational managers and the appendices are for disaster response personnel G. Every individual and agency that has a role in the response and recovery operations of Howell County must be familiar with, and understand, the contents of this plan for it to be effective. Thus, the Howell County Emergency Management Coordinator will brief the appropriate Howell County Page vii October 2018 officials on their roles in emergency management. The Coordinator will also brief the newly employed officials as they assume their duties. H. Each organization/agency with an assigned task will be responsible for the development and maintenance of their respective segments of the plan (See Part IV of the Basic Plan). They will update their portion of the plan as needed based on experience in emergencies, deficiencies identified through drills and exercises, and changes in government structure and emergency organizations. It is also the responsibility of those organizations/agencies that make changes to this plan to provide a copy of those changes to the Howell County Emergency Management Coordinator. Howell County Page viii October 2018 This page intentionally left blank. Howell County Page ix October 2018 PROMULGATION STATEMENTS Officials of Howell County and the cities of Brandsville, Mountain View, West Plains and Willow Springs in conjunction with the State Emergency Management Agency, have developed an emergency operations plan (EOP) that will enhance their emergency response capability. This document is the result of that effort. The first EOP was dated June 1992. It is designed to promote the coordination of statewide emergency services and the use of available resources to minimize the effects of a major disaster (natural or otherwise) on life and property of the citizens of Missouri. It also incorporates the principles and processes of the National Incident Management System