Emergency management
Emergency management
February 23, 2021
West Tisbury Surveys Residents on Emergency Prep
In pursuit of an upcoming grant opportunity, the town's climate advisory committee is seeking residents' responses to a survey.
September 25, 2019
First Aid Training Saturday
The Aquinnah communty response team will host a free first aid training on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the town hall.
August 18, 2014
Emergency Response Team Regroups, With All Towns on Board
Emergency management leaders have been busy planning within their respective town boundaries, but coordinating an Islandwide response has been slower to get off the ground. Late last week about 50 people gathered to restart the effort among the six towns.
April 24, 2014
Tisbury Appoints New Emergency Services Director
Tisbury police Lieut. Eerik Meisner was appointed as new town emergency services director this week. His recommendation to the post came from town fire chief John Schilling.
March 31, 2014
Police Stage Emergency Drill at Edgartown School Saturday
Edgartown police chief Antone Bettencourt said the mass casualty drill will last about three hours and will likely close part of Edgartown-West Tisbury Road and Cooke street.
January 9, 2014
Who Ya Gonna Call? Era Ends as Oak Bluffs Safety Czar Steps Down
After 38 years of service, longtime Oak Bluffs emergency manager Peter Martell is stepping down from his post. His proudest accomplishment? "Nobody's died on my watch," he said.
October 31, 2013
Is the Island Prepared for the Next Big Storm?
One year after Hurricane Sandy dealt a knock-out punch to the mid-Atlantic and cast a glancing blow to the Vineyard, the question as to how New England will fare in the next great storm has been the subject of much discussion up and down the coast. The Vineyard has been lucky, said Dr. Jeffrey Donnelly, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. But eventually the Island’s number will come up.
Go back, for example, to the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.
August 15, 2013
Storm Response Team Strives To Improve Communication
Each morning when West Tisbury emergency management director John Christensen wakes up, he turns on his iPad and checks the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s weather forecast. It doesn’t matter if it’s the middle of winter or hurricane season.
April 28, 2013
Edgartown Unveils New Emergency Management Center
On Saturday afternoon the Edgartown Police Department held an open house, giving taxpayers a chance to see all the new bells and whistles.
Officers gave tours of the new Emergency Management Center and showed off the new emergency response boat.
Patrolman Jamie Craig, a member of the SWAT team dispatched to Watertown last week, talked about SWAT training procedures.
August 20, 2009
Town Ponders Stronger Safety Protocols on Atlantic Beaches
As Hurricane Bill threatened offshore and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency issued a warning to swimmers and boaters about high seas and strong currents this weekend, the town of Chilmark is considering changes in beach safety protocol in light of two swimmer deaths and several dramatic rescues in the past month.
Hurricane Bill yesterday was traveling north-northwest from off the east coast of Central America, spreading high swells over the western Atlantic and is projected to pass some 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts sometime on Sunday.
