10th ANNUAL NH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CONFERENCE

10th Annual NH Emergency Preparedness Conference

June 11, 2014

7:30am-4:00pm Location pending NH Governor & Council approval

Highlights include

~Over 30 educational sessions

~ Exhibitors

~ Time to Network with over 600 of your colleagues

~Complimentary registration includes access to all sessions and events, a continental breakfast, lunch and snacks throughout the day!

The NH Emergency Preparedness Conference is an annual event that brings together emergency responders from across our state to explore a wide spectrum of emergency management topics using an all hazards approach. The conference provides excellent opportunities for training and networking with local experts and practitioners from fields such as Emergency Management, Public Health, Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, Business, Healthcare, Local Government, Public Works, Schools, Social Services, and Volunteer groups.

The goal of the event is to offer a program that provides NH's emergency planners and responders with the opportunity to:

· learn new ideas and practices to meet emergency preparedness challenges,

· hear lessons learned from previous planning, response and recovery efforts; and

· connect with key individuals and organizations across the emergency preparedness spectrum.

Registration will be open in the spring.

For more information, please visit our website www.NHEmergencyPrepConference.com

Do you have an idea for a presentation?

Visit www.nhemergencyprepconference.com/Call_for_Presentations to download the call for presentations. Submission deadline is January 10, 2014

Exhibit Opportunities available! Visit www.nhemergencyprepconference.com/Exhibitor_Opportunities for further details.

LIVE AUDIO

The live audio is up and running off of a new scanner feed hosted by Broadcastify. One of our dispatchers is hosting this live audio through a scanner and laptop computer at this time. We hope to make some improvements as time goes on, but this feed is much better (you can hear it) then what we had. Thanks for your patience. Click on "Live Audio" at the top of this page.

FROM THE PAST - 1969

45 years ago from the Deerfield Valley News. Mount Snow’s Summit Lodge was destroyed in an early morning fire. Mount Snow employees discovered the fire at about 7:30 am when they got to the summit to begin the day’s lift operations. The building was already about 80% destroyed by the time lift workers got there, but they were able to extinguish a second blaze in an adjacent chairlift terminal. Fire officials estimated the blaze started around 5 am, but cloud cover on the summit concealed the flames from valley residents.

A BUSY FEW MINUTES AT THE DISPATCH CENTER

The fires in Bennington and Westmoreland came into the dispatch center 16 seconds apart! 22 minutes later, a first alarm was dispatched in Peterborough. With the Bennington fire already dispatched and mutual aid towns headed to Bennington the dispatchers had to "re-configure" the first alarm assignment for Peterborough and send Dublin and Jaffrey to the Peterborough fire instead of Antrim, Greenfield and Hancock. Great job by Lt. Kevin Kennedy, Dispatcher Kassie Dupre and Dispatcher Bob Maynard. The fires in Bennington and Peterborough held at first alarms.