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2018 Annual Report • Fire Department • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />39 | P a g e <br /> <br />We live in an era of great technological advancement. Even compared to 10 years ago, the way <br />technology is used now is almost unrecognizable in some areas. While nothing will replace <br />diligent training and hard work, there are many great new tools that not only better the lives of <br />the firefighters using these tools, but most importantly, betters the lives of the citizens we serve. <br /> <br />VIII. Emergency Management <br />Mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are the 4 fundamental principles/phases that <br />make up emergency management. They provide guidance and a path during an incident or <br />emergency where many may possibly be affected. <br />On the night of November 19th, the City of St. Anthony staff along with the city council and <br />various outside agencies held a water contamination exercise that took place here within the <br />city. This exercise covered the above aforementioned principles/phases with the goal of creating <br />dialogue, action items and introductions among those in attendance. <br />The scenario was that our drinking water became contaminated and a “boil water advisory” <br />was to be issued to members of the community. Outside agencies like the Minnesota <br />Department of Health who are the subject matter experts on this played a large part in this <br />exercise. We also had both Hennepin and Ramsey County Environmental Health, Hennepin <br />Emergency Management, Ramsey Emergency Management and representatives from the school <br />district. One key invite was Nick Eggers from the City of Hastings which back in September of <br />this year went through this very scenario but on a real life scale. <br />Many lessons were learned on this night by all parties involved but one of the biggest is that we <br />as a city cannot do it all on our own because will not have all of the answers. We will rely on <br />our neighbors, those outside agencies and our residents to help get us through an event similar <br />to what we focused on. We cannot think that if we are going to get back to our “normal” that we <br />can do it on our own.