Special Teams and Capabilities
County Animal Response Team | Incident Management Team | Unmanned Aerial System | Hazmat Team | Radio | Tactical Dispatch. |. Command One Vehicle
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
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
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
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Team Chief: Marc Brunelle
mrbrunelle@yorkcountymaine.gov
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: David Francoeur
drfrancoeur@yorkcountymaine.gov
Tactical Dispatch
Who: Professional dispatchers
Purpose: On-scene direct dispatcher, who deploy as a mobile unit in Command One to incidents
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
Office Hours : Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
EMA Duty Officer during non-business hours
207-324-1111