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Anoka County 2019 Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan 166 • Fire Protection and fire medical / rescue services are provided for each municipality by one of 16 fire departments, with either all paid, a combination of paid and volunteer, or all volunteer firefighters. • Fridley has completed a project to construct a levee and enable bank stabilization along the Mississippi River to protect homes in certain vulnerable areas. • The City of Anoka completed a project to acquire property and remove chronically flood threatened homes along the Rum River. • Anoka County and the municipalities within, participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. • Minnesota health officials helped to develop a mass clinic plan. Anoka County Health Department's plan was tested during an August 2004 Strategic National Stockpile drill and subsequently revised to address problems found during that exercise. The plan was implemented for the H1N1 Pandemic in 2009. • Anoka County is responsible for planning a mass vaccination process should this be necessary due to contagious disease outbreak. Locations for mass dispensing sites have been identified, and a process for administering medicines is being refined and tested. • Practice exercises are conducted between HSEM, NWS, FBI, Anoka County Emergency Medical Services, city first responders and Anoka County Emergency Management to assure preparedness. • All facilities involved with hazardous materials provide annual TIER II reports. • Cities throughout Anoka County continue to add outdoor warning sirens to improve warning effectiveness, and to maintain existing sirens to insure proper operation. • The American Red Cross has multiple designated emergency shelters. We continue to work with the Red Cross on pet compliant shelters. • Multiple Anoka County communities have been active in the Firewise program, which works with the state Department of Natural Resources to remove potential fuel sources that may be involved in wild land fires. This mitigation effort limits the spread of wild land fires and helps to protect homes. • Anoka County participates in the Joint Terrorism Task Force. • Communities are participating in Lock Box programs with residents and business. State mitigation efforts and programs that are significant to Anoka County include the following: State of Minnesota Pipeline Safety Plan: The state of Minnesota, along with gas and oil pipeline providers, maintains a pipeline safety plan. Pipeline providers are required to schedule meetings with local officials to facilitate discussions about mitigation and response to pipeline disasters. The State Emergency Response Commission is responsible for implementing federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) provisions in Minnesota and serving as a technical advisor and information clearinghouse for state and federal hazardous materials programs. The Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency is the lead agency responsible for implementing EPCRA. Minnesota Emergency Management Plan (MEOP): The Minnesota Emergency Operations Plan (MMP) is the document that provides the foundation for all disaster and emergency response