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emergency response seruices and act as incident command responding to emergency events <br />consistent with the National Incident Management Structure. The Department Incident <br />Commander shall inform the Board of County Commissioners as events unfold and advise the need <br />for expanding response. The Department Incident Commander will establish communications with <br />the County's Emergency Manager and advise the Board of County Commissioners if <br />implementation of the County's adopted Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan is likely. <br />2.48.046Incident Command - Powers, duties. <br />It shall be the duty of the appointed Director to empower response staff at the lowest possible level <br />responding to an emergency consistent with the adopted Comprehensive Emergency Management <br />Plan of the County. As events dictate and the need for additional response escalates, the <br />departmental chain of command will contact the appointed Director who is responsible for making <br />additional response activation decisions. As the situation dictates, the Director shall notice the <br />County Emergency Manager of escalating resource allocations. Once the decision is made to <br />activate the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, the appointed Director shall fully <br />cooperate with the Emergency Manager keeping the Board of County Commissioners advised as <br />departmental resource allocations are requested by the Emergency Manager. <br />ADOPTED this 20th day of September 2022. <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />COUNTY , WASHINGTON <br />Julie Kjorsvik <br />Cory Wright, Vice-Chairman <br />! Deputy Clerk of the Board- Mandy Buchholz <br />Brett Commissioner