FRYEBURG – Oxford County Emergency Management Agency orchestrated a Fryeburg Fair table-top training exercise at the Fryeburg Fire Department on Aug. 5. A functional exercise will follow in February and a full-scale exercise in May at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds.

The Fryeburg-Saco Valley Fire Department Unified Incident Command developed courses of actions to deal with situations they were given.

The first responder leadership had to solve two scenarios: a mass casualty incident and a hazardous material incident. The two scenarios required the Fryeburg fire chief, who was incident commander, and staff to make some quick decisions on who, what, when, where and how to resource the incident.

The staff called for 12 mutually supporting fire departments, five ambulance service providers (Pace, United, Fryeburg, Stoneham Rescue, Conway Rescue), four law enforcement agencies (Fryeburg and Bridgton police, state police, sheriff’s department) and Fryeburg security chiefs, three hospitals (Stephens Memorial, Bridgton, New Hampshire), and the Fryeburg Fair medical staff supervisor.

Oxford County resources requested included the Dedicated Regional Communication Center support team, HAM operator teams, New Page regional hazardous response team, Decon Strike Team, Bridgton hazardous response team, the incident management assistance team with vehicle and the Community Animal Response Team chief.

Fryeburg was represented by local leadership, local EMA and community emergency response team members. York County Emergency Management Agency sent its new command vehicle for everyone to tour.

For more information on the exercise or future events, call the Oxford County EMA Office at 743-6336 or visit www.megalink.net/~oxctyema/.