CITY OF ROLLA EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN BASIC PLAN

The City of Rolla has developed this plan in order to maximize their emergency response capabilities. Its purpose is to assign responsibilities, develop procedures and identify resources that will give local officials the best comprehensive emergency management capability possible, considering available resources. This plan and its supporting documents will assist the local government officials in meeting their responsibility for dealing with threats to the lives and property of their constituency. It will concentrate on actions that (1) insure prompt and proper responses, (2) minimize suffering, (3) eliminate conditions caused by shortages of materials or services, (4) speed the return to normal operations and (5) promote the well-being of the community. This document basically explains how emergency operations will be controlled and the relationship of the various participating agencies. All hazards, man-made and natural, will be considered from the standpoint of the four aspects of Emergency Management: (1) Mitigation, (2) Preparedness, (3) Response and (4) Recovery. It is not the intent of this plan to attempt to deal with those events that happen on a daily basis, which, although they are of utmost importance to a few individuals, they do not cause widespread problems and are handled routinely by the city and/or county agencies. The following pages will, however, attempt to deal with those occurrences such as tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc., which create needs and cause suffering that the victims cannot alleviate without assistance, and that require an extraordinary commitment of government resources. This plan will deal with the “emergency " actions of a disaster magnitude. Hereafter, the terms "emergency " and "disaster " will be used interchangeably