R2000-175 AMENDING COUNTY OF MACON EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN

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, B. Terrorism Response Classifications • 1. Credible Threat a. Credible Threat is a threat that may be presented in verbal, written forrn or may be intelligence based. 2. Sus ected Terrorism Event P a. An event suspected of being caused by terrorist. 3. Verified Terrorism Event a. A Verified Terrorism Event is an incident in which a politically, racially, or religiously motivated group has claimed responsibility for an incident, or one involving the use of WMD. C. Terrorism Response Levels Initial notification of response agencies will be made by the Einergency Communications Center. The specific response level will be communicated to each agency notified. 1. Level 1 Terrorism Incidents the routine control of a response to localize damage that is not widespread, even though it inay be serious. During • rourine incident response,the County EOC will probably not be activated, or only partly so. 2. Level 2 or 3 Incident is impleinented in response to widespread damage or damage resulting in widespread economic, social, or infrastructure displacement resulting from or affected by a terrorist emergency. During an incident of this proportion, State resources will most likely be required to assist in effectively dealing with incident problems. VII. DirecNon and Control A. General 1. The direction and control is the combined utilizarion of pre-event planning, initial response actions, and follow-up actions. It is the responsibility of participating agencies to ensure the training,equipping, and readiness of on-scene response teams. Furthermore,the direction and control function is the combined capability of the emergency operating center and the unified command post. The exchange of critical information between these facilities, e.g., request for support and coordination of key decisions will enable first response effort and support operations to be better synchronized. • Annex V:Terrorism:Consequence Management Plan -I3-