Some county employees get schooled in emergency response training from FEMA
Oct. 23—LUMBERTON — Twenty Robeson County employees received National Incident Management System training recently to better prepare for emergencies in the future.
Last week, Robeson County Emergency Management offered the Federal Emergency Management Agency's NIMS 300 and 400 training courses to any and all county employees who work or might be required to work in the Emergency Operations Center during a large scale incident like a hurricane.
"The National Incident Management System (NIMS) guides all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector to work together to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to and recover from incidents," according to FEMA's website.
"NIMS provides stakeholders across the whole community with the shared vocabulary, systems and processes to successfully deliver the capabilities described in the National Preparedness System. NIMS defines operational systems that guide how personnel work together during incidents," according to the website.
During the courses employees learned how to identify roles and reporting relationships within a Unified Command system which involves agencies within the same jurisdiction, develop incident objectives, complete an Incident Action Plan, transition from responding to recovery and more.
These classes are beneficial to those employees filling positions in the EOC and in the field. The following employees completed the training: Terry Buchanan, Velvet Nixon, Connie Oxendine, Wendy Chavis, Brandy Oxendine, Tanisha Ryans, Jacob McMillian, Jason Strickland, Crystal Batton, Matthew Stephens, Leslie Fuller, Tracy Wiggins, Samatha Hendren, Marc Wymer, Henry Ivey, Jonathan Pate, Jeremy Locklear, Lisa Locklear, Nakela Deese and Brandon Riley.
