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Fire headquarters 2nd floor
Phone: 973-(470-5820)
Fax: (973)-470-5844
Dispatch non-emergency (973)-470-5911
OEM Coordinator: Captain William Henn
Deputy OEM Coordinator: Deputy Chief Kevin McCarthy
Deputy OEM Coordinator Fire Inspection Specialist Supervisor: Michael
Onder
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Multi Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation - Citizen Questionnaire
What is Clifton’s OEM?
Clifton’s office of Emergency Management represents our local Participation in our
Nations official emergency management structure:
- Federal Emergency Management Association
- New Jersey Office Emergency Management (NJSP)
- Passaic County Office Emergency Management
- Clifton OEM
What is the OEM’s Mission?
Implement an Emergency Plan and Direct Response
- Coordination of City Resources with City Chiefs/Department Heads
- Municipal - Neighboring Communities
- County - OEM,HAZMAT, Health
- State - NJ OEM, NJSP, NJ Department of Health
- Federal - FEMA, EPA, Coast Guard
- Agencies - Red Cross
What is the OEM’s Role?
“Should an emergency arise that would cause the activation of the Office of Emergency
Management Organization, Chiefs and Department Heads Would remain in charge of their
respective sections.
However, requests for communications, movements, resources and needs Would be coordinated
through the incident command post site or at the Emergency Operations Center”.
Who is part of Clifton’s OEM?
- Every Department of the City is Represented
- Police
- Fire
- City Council
- Health
- Building
- Engineering
- Department of Public Works
- Board of Education
- Communications Team - FCC Licensed Amateur Radio Ops
- Citizen Volunteers
How does the OEM achieve it’s mission?
- Mitigation - Activities that eliminate or reduce the risk of disaster (insurance,
building codes, flood plain management, public education)
- Preparedness - Planning, exercise, training, public information systems and warning
- Response - Direction/Control, warning, evacuation, emergency service to address
immediate and short term effects of a emergency/ disaster
- Recovery - Short term, those operations that seek to restore critical services and
meet basic needs. Long term, those actions that restore community to normal state.
Mitigation measures such as temporary housing and food, restoring non-vital City
services.
Preparedness
- Emergency Operations Plan - on file with County / State
- Describes use of assets for all emergency / disaster situations, evacuation procedures
- Describes direction and control protocol of Police, Fire, medical, DPW services
- Describes alert and Warning protocol - Radio, TV, Autodialing systems
- Describes critical facilities, shelters, roads, airports, waterways
- Address all emergencies - Weather related, Hazmat, Terrorism, WMD
- LEPC / HAZMAT - Local Emergency Planning Committee
- OEM
Examples of Preparedness
- OEM maintains an Emergency Operations Center and Communications. The OEM Coordinator and City Department heads can manage operations securely and efficiently in response to disaster/emergencies here.
- OEM has on hand basic needs items to provision shelters – cots, blankets, water, etc. OEM also prepares with local business in advance should additional provisioning be required.
- Each City of Clifton School Facility has prepared it’s own emergency plan with OEM and board of Education. Most parochial, private, day care, and nursery schools have also prepared a basic plan of emergency with assistance from OEM.
- OEM has FEMA– developed Hurricane Software Tool for Monitoring, Analysis and decision support.
- OEM regularly participates in exercises and planning activities with County OEM, local hospitals, CPD, CFD.
- OEM is always available to answer any resident question on issues of preparedness.
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