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<br />' 8. A wides read disaster ma affect lar a areas of the Coun -and disru t E <br />p Y g ty p MS <br />support. Medical facilities and other resources may be damaged, destroyed or <br />' unavailable. <br />' III. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS <br />' A. EMS emergency response operations will be an extension of normal EMS duties. <br />EMS will provide Eeld medical care as needed during emergency situations and <br />coordinate medical evacuation of casualties. <br />B. EMS units will be prepared to respond to all situations. This will include mass <br />casualty situations at multiple locations. <br />' C. Coordination between EMS and Cabarrus County Rescue Squad units is necessary <br />to ensure operational readiness for emergency operations. <br />' D. Volunteer fire departments and the Cabarrus County Rescue Squad will assist <br />EMS units with casualty tzeatment and evacuation. <br />' E. During mass casualty incidents, EMS will operate areas to conduct patient triage <br />and treatment, holding areas for casualties awaiting treatment, and transportation loading <br />' areas. <br />F. An EMS leader will be located at the incident command post to coordinate <br />' responding medical units and establish communication links with hospitals and the <br />Emergency Operations Center. This leader will control all EMS and Rescue Squad assets <br />responding to the emergency. Transfer of authority on-scene will be in accordance with <br />established ICS procedures. <br />G. The county EMS director, in cooperation with the Emergency Management <br />' Coordinator, will develop standard operating procedures to guide EMS personnel <br />involved with radiological and hazardous materials incidents. This SOP will address <br />personnel safety procedures and the treatment and handling of casualties contaminated <br />' during the incident. <br /> <br />IV. DIRECTION AND CONTROL <br />A. The EMS Director will initially direct and control EMS operations from the EOC. <br />' He is assigned to the Operations Group in the EOC. The senior EMS leader on the scene <br />will assume direction and control of units responding to the emergency situation. Should <br />the EMS Director move forward to control operations at the emergency response site, he <br />will ensure that an EMS leader replaces him at the Emergency Operations Center. <br />' EOP/ANNEX G 2 September 2008 <br />' F-2 201 of 408 <br />