May 5 :: 2009
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Registration & Coffee |
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| 09:15 |
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Welcome
Sally Sheen
Chief Executive of the Fire Service College, UK |
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| 09:30 |
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Opening address to meeting
Chief Paul Hayden - Chair of Meeting
CFO Hereford and Worcester FRS, Chief Fire Officers Association lead on Environment and Flooding |
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A description of the experiences of North Carolina in extreme weather related major flooding events. The aim will be to help share knowledge, understanding, information and learning, thereby assisting with identifying effective response strategies.
Chief Jon B Hannan
Charlotte Fire Service, NC, USA
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The business case for a National Flood Rescue Framework: the way forward in 2009 through 2010, culminating with amajor flood exercise in 2011.
Chief Paul Hayden
CFO Hereford and Worcester FRS, Chief Fire Officers Association lead on Environment and Flooding |
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| 11:00 |
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Networking Coffee Break |
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| 11:20 |
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Examining the Defra led project involving the UK SAR's Flooding Sub Group, this presentation will set out and discuss the short, medium and long term milestones and outputs.
Colin Berghouse
DEFRA - Flood emergencies programme manager |
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| 12:00 |
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From rainclouds to recovery, Flood Management in Australia: A New South Wales (NSW) State Emergency Service Perspective. The development of flood management in Australia, with particular focus on NSW. The key themes will be legislation, a concept of holistic flood management - from planning to recovery - flood rescue (training and equipment), strategic alliances and other prominent challenges (ie community engagement, floodplain development, climate change and volunteering).
Greg Slater
Deputy Director General, NSW State Emergency Service, Australia |
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| 12:30 |
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An Introduction into the Relationships Between Evacuation Planning and Planning for the (Worst Credible) Floods - This presentation will show the links in the relationships between evacuation planning and planning for the worst credible floods, drawing from lessons learned from Exercise Waterproof in the Netherlands, and from the speaker’s doctorate research work at the Free University of Amsterdam.
Bas Kolen
HKV Consultants and the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| 12:50 |
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Open Forum, Questions and Discussions and Summary |
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| 13:00 |
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Networking Lunch and Exhibition |
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| 14:20 |
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Integrating Weather and Environmental intelligence into operational planning and execution - This new £5m single national forecasting and alert service – the National Flood Warning Centre – places the Met Office and Environment Agency in the same room to warn and help to protect people and businesses from flooding and other extreme events.
Paul Davies
Deputy Head of the Flood Forecasting Centre (TBC) – The New National Flood Warning Centre |
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The National Procurement Process – An update on the national procurement process for the acquisition of vessels, training and equipment in support of the National Flood Rescue Framework project.
Terry Brewer
Chief Executive Officer, Firebuy
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| 15:20 |
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Networking Coffee Break |
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| 15:40 |
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The International Dimension to Flood and Disaster Response – Leader for EU Flood Exercise 2009, Netherlands – An examination of mutual aid, the EU Mechanism, multilateral/bilateral arrangements, the way forward using international response and an exercise in real time to test and rehearse responses, as well as the UK aspects for involvement in EU-Floodex.
Peter Glerum
Deputy Director, Project manager EU-Floodex, Leader for EU Flood Exercise 2009, Netherlands |
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| 16:20 |
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Managed Plenary Session – the consultative process, papers for gathering views distributed and Open Forum - discussions with the presenters and to facilitate consultation involvment |
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