The old saying "every incident starts and ends at the local level," always seems to hold true. So what happens when you are the company or department that “starts” the event? From the arrival of the ...

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Developing an emergency operations plan (EOP) is no easy feat but it was a task Michael Reidenbach gladly took on. The EOP for Charleston County School District, which consists of 82 schools, hadn’t ...

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Maj. Gen. Robert C. Marshall, Ballistic Missile Defense, or BMD, program manager, signed the Safeguard missile defense operations plan that was developed as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense ...

William & Mary has always been prepared, to the greatest extent possible, to respond to hazardous events. That being said, the university has grown increasingly aware of the increased number and kind ...