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• “The All Hazards Consortium will play a significant role in assisting states and local governments in preparing for future emergencies, both man made and natural. Our ability to respond in the middle Atlantic area can no longer be confined by political/ geographic boundaries developed in the late 1700s. Preparedness, mutual aid, evacuations etc. must be planned and executed on a regional level. The Consortium will provide the opportunity to share ideas, best practices and foster the continued development of intergovernmental relationships in the Middle Atlantic Area.”

  Tom O'Reilly
  Former Director, Office Attorney General
  New Jersey

This group will focus on a wide variety of emergency management issues.  Since emergency management is a fairly well organized discipline within state government, this group will initially focus on the important topic of mass evacuation and catastrophic disaster planning.  This topic addresses many issues including transportation, communications, food, fuel, housing, public safety, public health, and the technologies and policies needed to support a multi-state coordinated evacuation.

Update October 2007:

In July of 2007, the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs And Public Safety began a project involving West Virginia University and the AHC to develop a modeling and simulation tool to support exercises and training for mass evacuations into and through the state of West Virginia.  Phase one of this effort produced a baseline report.  Phase 2 will involve additional development of user requirements and regional research as to modeling and simulation work that has already been done around the region in the public and private sectors, as well as in the university and research communities.  Additionally, the AHC is planning a regional workshop for the spring of 2008.  This workshop will bring together many states, along with DHS and FEMA, to discuss the many issues related to a mass evacuation.