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 supportTeam 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
Team Chief: Marc Brunelle
mrbrunelle@yorkcountymaine.gov
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: 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
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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