Mutual Aid Swift Water Rescue Boats Hit Sacramento Area

Описание: In an effort to strengthen collaboration capabilities between regional emergency responders, enhance protection of critical infrastructure and key resources, and enhance regional catastrophic incident planning, response and recovery, Metro Fire partnered with the Cosumnes Fire Department, Folsom Fire Department, and Sacramento Fire Department to implement a regional boat replacement program.

Replacing the region’s boats will provide the Sacramento area with reliable, more efficient, and ultimately safer resources to prevent and respond to flooding and other water emergencies. Additionally, standardizing these resources will increase interoperability and enhance community preparedness and resiliency.

The region’s boats serve as valuable resources to monitor waterways and critical infrastructure, respond to flood and other emergencies, and participate in regional catastrophic incident training and planning exercises.

Regional boats are a critical resource necessary for an area with one of the highest flood risks in the nation. Flooding within the region could disrupt water supply, destroy farmland, cause landslides, and damage interstates, gas lines, railways and other infrastructure.

Metro Fire, on behalf of the regional fire agencies, was awarded a FY2013 State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) award for $255,000 for the purchase of three rigid hull inflatable boats with accompanying trailers, to be deployed regionally as part of the regional boat program.

Award was made by Sacramento County OES who was designated as the pass-through agent for the local administration of the State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) which consists of federally awarded funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES).

The first three boats have arrived and will be deployed to Metro Fire, Folsom Fire and Sacramento Fire as designated by the partnering agencies. The remaining two boats to complete the regional program were recently awarded through a FY2014 SHSGP award and will be deployed to Metro Fire and Cosumnes Fire.

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