Emergency Management Coordinator
Douglas Platt
(732) 270-5500
Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator
Andrew Parks
The Island Heights Office of Emergency Management (OEM) represents a Local Emergency Planning Council (LEPC). It is chaired by the Emergency Management Coordinator and members including leaders of the Police, Fire, First Aid, and Public Works Departments, the Mayor and a Council representative. The OEM also has several staff members to support the Coordinator. The OEM is headquartered in the Island Heights Emergency Operations Center next to Police Headquarters.
The Island Heights OEM develops plans for handling emergencies and ensures that all emergency response agencies are properly trained and equipped to perform their designated functions and work as a team. The OEM meets regularly and conducts emergency response exercises each year. Among them are the annual exercise for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station as well as drills testing our response plans for hurricanes, winter storms, long-term power outages and other emergencies.
The OEM coordinates damage assessment after storms and other disasters and works with FEMA to obtain disaster relief funds, which brought in thousands of dollars to repair bulkheads and streets damaged by storms over past years.
The OEM also obtains equipment like radios, generators, computers, shelter supplies and the EOC/Police building for our emergency response through state and federal grants.
USEFUL LINKS:
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center
Mount Holly, NJ- National Weather Service Briefing Package
NJ Office of Emergency Management
NJ Evacuation Route Maps and Storm Surge Maps
Website/Media Links
