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The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant Program that provides funding to the 124 largest jurisdictions to support the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard. The MMRS program reduces the consequences of a mass casualty incident during the initial period of a response by having augmented existing local operational response systems before the incident occurs. It is the only federal grant program that supports multidisciplinary mass casualty response planning at the local/regional level.
The Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (HRMMRS) was developed under the direction of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission (HRPDC) in 1999. It includes the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach and Williamsburg and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Southampton, Surry and York. It covers an area of 2900 square miles and a population of 1,640,000. The HRPDC contracts with the Tidewater EMS Council to manage the activities of the HRMMRS.
The HRMMRS supports and enhances Hampton Roads public safety, hospital, public health, and emergency management response capabilities to manage mass casualty incidents. Over 250 individuals from almost 90 local and state agencies and organizations are involved in planning, training and exercises. |
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Prepare Hampton Roads is a partnership between Hampton Roads local Emergency Management agencies, the American Red Cross of Southeastern Virginia, the Virginia Department of Health, and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
Prepare Hampton Roads is a community partnership formed by...Read more...
National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service RSS feeds have been added to this website. The National Hurricane Center RSS Feeds include the Atlantic basin tropical cyclone forecastes and the graphical tropical weather outlook. Both feeds include tropical depression, tropical storm and h...Read more...
The HSEEP Just-In-Time Evaluator Couse will be held on Monday, September 13, 2010 from 0830 - 1700. This one-day session covers selective portions of the HSEEP Training Course (HTC), designed specifically to address exercise evaluation and how it plays an integral part in each step of the exercis...Read more...
RICHMOND, VA — Virginia's official Hurricane Evacuation Guide is available at locations throughout Hampton Roads, the Peninsula and metro Richmond.
"We urge residents to get a copy and use it to help make a family emergency plan for the hurricane and flood season," said Michael Cline, state c...Read more... VDOT Warns of the Dangers of Inland FloodingJune 1 Marks Beginning of Atlantic Hurricane Season
RICHMOND – June 1 is the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, so it's a good time for residents to review their personal readiness plans and know what actions to take if forced to evacuate in t...Read more... |
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