Local EMA awarded high-tech equipment – TMCnet

CULLMAN, December 22, 2011 (The Cullman Times – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services around COMTEX) — The Cullman Emergency Management Agency is a single of 10 north Alabama EMA as good as law coercion agencies to embrace a uninformed distillate of high-tech equipment, interjection to a new turn of Homeland Security grants.

Clump’s EMA, along with law coercion agencies in 9 alternative counties comprising Alabama Homeland Security Region 6, perceived 10 laptop computers, 10 mobile printers, as good as mobile energy inverters — as good as a GPS section as good as a little alternative upgrades — as partial of a ultimate DHS turn of accede to funds.

According to Cullman EMA Assistant Director Kelly Allen, grants underneath a DHS program, along with a apparatus they buy, have been uniformly distributed between all 10 counties underneath a citation of Madison County Sheriff Blake Dorning, who is a Alabama Department of Homeland invulnerability coordinator for Region 6.

“The good thing about it is which Sheriff Dorning meets with member from all a counties during a single time, he puts a apparatus together in to bundles which go with any county, as good as any county gets just a same thing,” pronounced Allen. “It’s unequivocally a satisfactory approach to do it, as good as it lets everyone know which they’re all upon a same page.” The $ 224,000 accede to is usually a ultimate in a period of grants a U.S. Department of Homeland Security has disbursed to Alabama DHS regions in new years. Other supports totaling some-more than $ 2 million have brought vehicles, trailers, cameras, generators as good as alternative margin collection as good as puncture apparatus to Cullman as good as a neighbors.

Along with Cullman County, Region 6 includes Blount, Lawrence, Morgan, Limestone, Madison, Jackson, Marshall, Dekalb as good as Cherokee counties.

Allen pronounced information exchnage between a counties in Region 6 — there have been 7 DHS regions in Alabama — is good coordinated, permitting reply teams in any county to share apparatus as good as services and, when possible, even suggest mobile reply await outward a segment when mess affects alternative tools of a state.

–Benjamin Bullard can be reached by e-mail during bbullard@cullmantimes.com, or by write during 734-2131, ext. 270.

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