Director Scott Parker

Phone: 207-743-6336

E-mail: oxctyema@megalink.net

Do the plans allow citizens to stay home (if they are informed), or can counties force evacuations?

For people to stay home, if they have resources necessary, that is the best place to be. If they don’t have those resources or that capability, we ask them to move to a Red Cross shelter or other local shelter. We have had forced evacuations because of flooding.

Are there provisions to absorb refugees from other emergencies (like Katrina) into each county?

Yes, we have mutual support agreements with adjacent counties. People are going to come north and west if something happens. We have a lot of summer camps in our county, and we have the Fryeburg fairgrounds, for example.

What will the revisions cost?

One of the biggest challenges in the EMA world is, as you know, there are two of us in the office. There are requirements being placed on state and county level, by 911, but funding and staffing has not changed.

What do you perceive to be the greatest natural or man-made threat to our counties?

Ice, snow and flooding. Chemical spill. We have several railroads that carry chemicals on a daily basis. Fortunately we don’t have major highways going through our counties. The chemicals are going to Newpage, IP in Jay, and there are other smaller mills that use certain hazardous chemicals. They are also passing to New Hampshire, to Berlin’s mill.

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