Special Teams and Capabilities
County Animal Response Team | Incident Management Team | Unmanned Aerial System | Hazmat Team | Radio | Tactical Dispatch. |. Command One Vehicle
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County Animal Response Team (CART)
Who: Team of all backgrounds and professional disciples
Purpose: Assisting animals before, during, and after disasters; sheltering, field rescue, outreach and education for natural disasters and large-scale animal cruelty cases
Meetings: first Thursday of every month
Team Chief: Megan Arsenault
mearsenault@yorkcountymaine.gov
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Incident Management Team (IMT)
Who: Primarily compromised of Fire, Police, EMS Chiefs, and volunteers
Purpose: Respond to local and regional incidents to provide incident management and ICS support
Team Chief: Nate Schools
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Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
Who: Licensed pilots, support staff and volunteers
Purpose: The “Drone Team” is a YCEMA deployable asset which aids in search and rescue, law enforcement incidents, fires, and natural hazards
[Command 2 Photo]
Team Chief: Marc Brunelle
mrbrunelle@yorkcountymaine.gov
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Hazmat Team
Radio
Who: HAM amateur radio operators
Purpose: Supports EMA as the third backup communication system for all York County Towns, as well support communications for all shelters and Local Directors in York County
Team Chief: Neil Tolman k1nbt@yahoo.com
Tactical Dispatch
Who: Professional dispatchers
Purpose: On-scene direct dispatcher, who deploy as a mobile unit in Command One to incidents
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Command One Vehicle
Mobile command center
Full suite of technology
Deployable asset to emergency incidents or sites
Only county in the Maine to have such an asset
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Office Hours : Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
EMA Duty Officer during non-business hours
207-324-1111