The Office of
Emergency Management building on 59 Low Street
in Newburyport houses the Emergency
Operations Center (EOC). This building facility
is where city officials (Police, Fire, Mayors
Office and DPW) as well as State and Government
Officials (State Police, MEMA, National Guard, FEMA and USCG)
can jointly manage the response and recovery
from small to large-scale emergencies and
disasters be it natural or man made. The EOC
provides a place to run Incident Command or
assist field Incident Command and has
substantial resources that facilitate the City’s
ability to protect life and property.
The EOC is a secure building
and large lot, completely surrounded by barbed
perimeter security fencing. The building is
alarmed and video recorded both internal and
external.
The following
Room/Divisions are present in Newburyport's EOC:
Operations Floor
Here is where the
Volunteer phone force is busy staffing
desks and helping to coordinate
resources for a given situation.
Individual desks are
set up for Police, Fire, DPW, Special
Needs Coordinator, Transportation
coordinator and Harbor Master Liaison.
Media Briefing
Room
In the event of a
large scale situation where public eye
is on Newburyport, the Office of
Emergency Management at the discretion
of the director has a large conference
room equipped for public media staff for
the purpose of providing detailed
information as it relates to an event.
This room contains chairs, white boards,
speaker podium and WAN outlets for media
uploads
Communications/
Technology
At the heart of the
EOC is a communications/technology room
equipped with multiple channels of
emergency communications. This room
contains 2-way radios to talk to MEMA
Bunker in Framingham, local
Police and Fire departments, DPW,
Hospital, USCG, State Police and
Regional EOCs in the EPZ.
This room also
contains FAX, TTY for the hearing
impaired, Pocket Paging systems and Ham
Radio equipment for long range civilian
communication.
In the event of total
commercial street power loss, the entire EOC and the
Communication/Technology room will be
run by a commercial grade, diesel
generator which is located next to our
building. The generator starts up and powers the
building within 20 seconds of a power
disruption.
Incident Command Conference Room
Equipped with
telephones, cable TV,VCR, DVD, computers, a large
conference table/chairs and a white board.
