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Special Teams and Capabilities

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

nschools@buxtonfr.org​​​​​​​​

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​​​​​​ 

Policy: York County UAS Team Operating Policy

Team Chief: Marc Brunelle​

mrbrunelle@yorkcountymaine.gov​​​

Hazmat Team  

Emergency Communications Team

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 deploys as a mobile unit in Command One to incidents

Team Chief: Darcy Valido 
dlvalido@sanfordmaine.org

Command One Vehicle 

Mobile Command Center

Full suite of technology

Deployable asset to emergency incidents or sites

The only county in Maine to have such an asset 

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