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WHAT’S COMING UP:
MAY:
26 - Music Matters - 7:00 p.m.
27 - Music Matters - 3:00 p.m.
JUNE:
4 - Siuslaw School District Spring Band Concert
Monday, 7:00 p.m
5 - Siuslaw School District Spring Choir Concert
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m
7 - Coastal Fitness Gymnastics Spring Show
Th ursday, 6:30 p.m.
8,9, 10 & 15,16,17 Last Resort Players presents “ A Nice Family Gathering “
Fridays and Saturdays 7:00 p.m Sundays 2:00 p.m
11- Living Trust Seminar
Monday, 10:30 a.m , 2:30 p.m and 6:30 p.m
13 - Concealed Weapons Permit Class
Wednesday, 1:00 p.m and 6:00 p.m
20 -Governors Marketplace
Wednesday, 7:30 a.m – 1:00 p.m
22-Florence Area Community Coalition (FACC) presents Aging In Place
Friday, 9:45 a.m Doors Open
30 -FRAA Big Wave Poetry Fest
Saturday, 6:30 p.m
Operation Emerald Shield
training was not only designed
for the education of individual
EMTs and officers, but also for
the organizations they repre-
sent.
WLAD Operations Chief
Matt House was the coordinator
for Operation Emerald Shield
and his analysis from the three-
hour long exercise was positive
in both of these areas.
“During the planning for the
violent incident exercise on
May 23, EMS, fire, police and
PeaceHealth planned for specif-
ic objectives that were realistic
to achieve. These trainings are
imperative to test agency capa-
bilities, performance, identify
strengths and identify areas
needing improvement,” House
said.
Reviews of previous violent
shooter situations have discov-
ered that communication and
coordination between different
support organizations can be
an impediment to successfully
countering an aggressive or vi-
olent individual.
“WLAD and SVFR focused
on National Fire Protection
Associations standards as their
primary objectives. Those are
scene management, resource
utilization, triage, treatment
and transport of patient. FPD
focused on their strategies
and tactics for scene manage-
ment and protection for EMS/
fire personnel responding to
Active Violent Incidents and
PeaceHealth employees focused
on Internal Hospital Incident
Command System and patient
surge capabilities,” House said.
Perhaps the most critical part
of any attempt to thwart an ac-
tive shooter is the response of
law enforcement officers. These
men and women have the un-
enviable job of entering a po-
tentially deadly situation, eval-
uating that situation and taking
action to eliminate the threat to
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While Florence Police Department cleared
the building during Wednesday’s Operation
Emerald Shield training, EMTs from Western
Lane Ambulance and Siuslaw Valley Fire and
Rescue treated injured victims and trans-
ported them to waiting staff at PeaceHealth
Peace Harbor.
the public.
Actions must be taken quick-
ly and efficiently to deter or
eliminate the danger posed by a
violent individual.
House has nothing but praise
for the performance of people
involved in Wednesday’s drill.
“Florence police officers in-
volved in the exercise demon-
strated quick, proficient scene
management and safety for all
providers,” House said. “From
the time FPD had cleared the
building and provided warm
force coverage, rescue task force
teams had the first critical pa-
tient transported from the scene
in six minutes.”
He added, “EMS/fire pro-
ficiently identified the most
critically injured patients and
had them transported from the
scene immediately. This was an
excellent example of working
together for optimal outcomes.”
FPD Commander John Pitch-
er also felt the exercise was valu-
able from both an organization-
al and individual perspective.
“The police portion of the ex-
ercise went well,” Pitcher said.
“Our part dealt with an active
threat with injuries. We were
able to test our response, entry,
communication, securing the
area and locating the threat.
Our officers were tested on
identifying and securing an area
where medical personnel could
provide emergency treatment
to the injured as well as work-
ing with the other responding
agencies. Our Communica-
tions Center was also tested on
its ability to communicate and
react with all the responding
agencies as well as tracking/
documenting the incident.”
One element of the training
required responders from Flor-
ence to deal with a situation
while assistance from agencies
from other municipalities were
unable to join in addressing the
emergency.
“A total of 17 patients were
transported from the exercise
scene in 43 minutes to Peace-
Harbor Hospital and Peace-
Health Walk-In clinic,” House
said. “Regionally, we needed to
test the capabilities of what can
be managed independently in
our area without additional re-
sources or assistance.”
This was an area of particular
interest to the leadership teams
from all of Emerald Shields par-
ticipants.
“The last important part of
this exercise was the fact that it
provided participating agencies
a foundation for upcoming ex-
ercises,” House said. “The goal is
to annually surge our area with
multi-casualty incidents, to bet-
ter prepare for those low-fre-
quency, high-risk events.”
When asked to give an overall
evaluation for Operation Em-
erald Shield, House was very
positive in his assessment of the
training.
“As the Master Controller
of the exercise, I was extreme-
ly happy with everyone’s par-
ticipation in the exercise and
in treating the training as if
it were a real time event. …
Things went well and all of
the organizations participating
gained valuable information on
ways to improve performance
in these types of situations,” he
said.
knew where the port was. I
was free and had the time, and
I like politics. I felt that maybe
I could do something for the
community.”
One of Rickard’s primary re-
sponsibilities on the commis-
sion was outreach, presenting
the views of the port to various
entities across the city, county
and state. She regularly attend-
ed meetings of Florence City
Council, Siuslaw Watershed
Council, the Lane Area Com-
mission on Transportation and
the Lane Council of Govern-
ments.
“I did what I needed to do,”
Rickard said. “I wish them
well, and I appreciate the op-
portunity to serve my five
years.”
Of Rickard, Meyer said, “I
just wanted to go on record to
thank her for her service. She
had her own perspective, and I
think it was important to hear
that perspective.”
Applications to fill Rickard’s
position, as well as Hunting-
ton’s, will be accepted until 5
p.m. on Friday, June 15, when
the commission will then in-
terview applicants. The terms
will expire June 30, 2019, at
which time an elected succes-
sor will be seated.
Applications can be found
online at portofsiusalw.com or
by calling 541-997-3426.
In other news from the
meeting, Huntington gave an
update on the attempt to sell
the port’s 40-acre industrial
park, property within the Pa-
cific View Business Park off
Kingwood Street. The proper-
ty is currently being listed by
Coldwell Banker.
“They filed a few inquiries,
but there really hasn’t been in-
terest. They’ve done the aerial
photography, they’ve sent out
marketing packages, but there
hasn’t been a lot of activity
yet,” Huntington said.
What has seen activity on
the property is an outbreak of
invasive Scotch Broom, which
has been encroaching on the
property. The port was served
with a complaint from the city
regarding the noxious weed.
“It’s a huge project, but we
need to start making an effort,”
Huntington said about remov-
ing the weed. “As staff time
becomes available, we’ll start. I
think as long as we start mak-
ing some sort of progress now,
we’ll get a better handle on it
down the road. We’re not the
only ones out there, the city
has their own problems with
it. But we are going to make an
effort.”
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