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If you can't find what you’re looking for, please get in touch. contact us Socorro County InfoNet Emergency Management & GIS / Rural Addressing Emergency Management Operations & Plans Amateur Radio Emergency Service Community Emergency Response Team Training Programs Flood Plain Management GIS / Rural Addressing Hazard Mitigation Plan Hazard Mitigation Documents Local Emergency Planning Committee Emergency Planning Documents Socorro County Citizens Corp Council 198 Neel Avenue Socorro NM 87801 Gail Tripp Emergency Manager 575-835-2029 x1200 grogers@co.socorro.nm.us Elaine Briggs Torres GIS Specialist/Rural Addresser 575-838-5700 x1251 etorres@co.socorro.nm.us Jerry Wheeler Emergency Coordinator 575-835-2029 x1206 jwheeler@co.socorro.nm.us Jose Gonzalez Animal Control/Ordinance Officer 575-835-2029 x1207 jgonzalez@co.socorro.nm.us The Emergency Management Office is responsible for planning the responses to small- and large-scale emergency situations to save lives, reduce injuries, and preserve property. Emergencies and disasters, both natural and man-made, can affect every resident in Socorro County. Sometimes there are threats that we simply cannot control or prevent from happening, such as wildfires, hazardous-material spills, and riots. The office of Emergency Management includes the following departments & groups: Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) Socorro County Citizen's Corp Council (SCCCC) Floodplain Manager Fire Marshall's Office Firewise Program GIS/Mapping Department 911 Data Management Animal Control/Ordinance Compliance Related links: Ready America FEMA’s NIMS EPA Hotlines Pipeline & Hazmat Safety Red Cross New Mexico Emergency Management Operations & Plans Amateur Radio Emergency Service Socorro County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) has facilities in the Emergency Operations Center, 198 Neel Ave. in Socorro. Regular Nets: Local: Wednesdays at 8 PM, 146.68 (-123.0) except SARA meeting nights, 2nd Wednesday State: Alternate Sundays, 3939 LSB, 5 PM winter, 7 PM summer. Contacts: DEC (District Emergency Coordinator) Al Braun AC5BX — 575-835-3370 (w); 835-1061 (h) EC (Emergency Coordinator) Jim Lommen KC7QY — 575-838-0091 County Liaison: Bear Albrecht W5VZB — 575-835-2029 ext 1204 (office), 505-573-9350 (mobile) Community Emergency Response Team Geographical: Socorro County 87823, 87801,87011,87602,87828,87825,87028,87062 (Polvadera, San Antonio, City of Socorro, Magdalena, Veguita, La Joya, Claunch) Training Programs Local CERT Programs offer training to the general public and/or to particular groups in the community. This CERT Program holds classes for the following groups: General public / Open classes Language(s) in which the program conducts CERT training: English Supplemental Training This program offers & requires supplemental training in addition to the CERT Basic Training Course. The training conducted, recommended, and/or required for CERT members is: IS-100.a Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS) IS-200.a ICS for Single Resources IS-700.a National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction IS-800.b National Response Framework, An Introduction Additional CBRNE awareness Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Automatic External Defibrillation (AED) Basic first aid Open to all adults. Youth 12 to 17 may attend with parent or adult guardian. Oldest 87 at time of training, youngest 12. Supplemental training encouraged, but not required. County of Socorro Fire and Emergency Management 198 Neel Ave Socorro, NM 87801 575-835-2029 CERT Documents Flood Plain Management Mark Mercer Emergency Manager 575-835-2029 x1202 fax: 575-835-2700 mmercer@co.socorro.nm.us GIS / Rural Addressing Aerial photo of Black Mesa Elaine Briggs Torres GIS Specialist/Rural Addresser 575-838-5700 ext 1251 etorres@co.socorro.nm.us GIS and Rural Addressing Forms Hazard Mitigation Plan Socorro County Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan In 2009, Socorro County, the City of Socorro, the Village of Magdalena, and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology partnered together with State and Federal Emergency Management agencies to compile a comprehensive plan to reduce losses to property and injury to people in our community from the devastation caused by natural hazards. Utilizing publications from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) called “How-To Guides,” the Mitigation Planning Group organized into a cohesive unit and tackled the task at hand. They endeavored to identify all hazards; profile the hazard events; assess local vulnerabilities; estimate potential losses; assess capability of their organizations; and identify, analyze, and prioritize mitigation measures. The whole time they were gathering information by referencing the records, they also involved the public by gaining their knowledge of natural hazard events and their ideas on what could be done to alleviate their nefarious effects. A natural result of documenting all of this activity was the creation we now call the Socorro County Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan. Each of the organizations involved in the Plan showed they were serious about decreasing these losses by formally adopting the Plan into their official ordinances. Plan Update The Socorro County Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan seeks to identify the natural hazards that impact our community, identify actions to reduce losses from those hazards, and establishes a coordinated process to implement the plan. Plan partners are Socorro County, the City of Socorro, New Mexico Tech, the Village of Magdalena and Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. The Socorro County Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan, is a living document. It is more of a reflection of the concern of our communities’ elected representatives than it is merely words on paper. They saw - and were moved - by the damage; then they went about to diminish its painful effects. Periodic updates are patently a requirement. Due to the fact that the parameters of the Plan Update are numerous and complex, the same steps must be taken to gather the current information as were used in the outset. The Federal laws that govern Natural Hazard Mitigation Funding, The Stafford Act (as amended), and The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, require that Local Mitigation Plans be in place and updated every five years in order to receive Federal funding for hazard mitigation projects. The Mitigation Planning Group seeks the input and feedback of organizations and those living in Socorro County in order to properly update the Plan. This web page is one of the vehicles through which we can receive this valuable information from you. Please allow this Update to perform as it aspires by using this site to communicate with us. The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District has joined with the original four local partner organizations in their efforts to make natural disasters less severe. SOCORRO COUNTY Michael A. Hawkes County Manager mhawkes@co.socorro.nm.us Gail Tripp Emergency Manager grogers@co.socorro.nm.us Jerry Wheeler ES Coordinator jwheeler@co.socorro.nm.us NEW MEXICO TECH Rob Paoletti Senior Safety Officer robert.paoletti@emrtc.nmt.edu Lindsay Candelaria Director of Hazardous Waste lcandelaria@admin.nmt.edu Joe Franklin Director of IT jfranklin@admin.nmt.edu CITY OF SOCORRO Richard Rumpf Mayor magdalenafirechief@gmail.com Stephanie Finch City Clerk vom@gilanet.com MRGCD Yasmeen Najmi yasmeen@mrgcd.us John Romero Fire Management john@mrgcd.us Hazard Mitigation Documents Natural Hazards Local Emergency Planning Committee Meetings of the Socorro County Local Emergency Planning Committee are held in the west wing of the Socorro County Annex Building, 198 Neel Ave, at 10:00a.m. the third Thursday of every month. About the LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committees were mandated to exist by the 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) SARA Title III establishes requirements for Federal, State and local governments, Indian Tribes, and industry, regarding emergency planning and “Community Right-to-Know” reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals. The Community Right-to-Know provisions help increase the public’s knowledge and access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment. States and communities, working with facilities, can use the information to improve chemical safety and to protect public health and the environment. Background The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 to clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites and to provide for emergency response to releases of hazardous substances into the environment. CERCLA is also called Superfund, and the hazardous waste sites are known as Superfund sites. In response to continuing community concern regarding hazardous materials and chemical release tragedies, a reauthorization and expansion of Superfund was signed into law in 1986. It is known as the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA); Title III of SARA (“SARA Title III”) is the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA). While LEPCs are all specifically charged with dealing with hazardous materials, many if not most have chosen an “all hazard” approach. We have done so in Socorro County. The Socorro County LEPC came into being in 2003, at first largely driven by the Socorro Amateur Radio Association. Since that time members have come from a wide variety of agencies and organizations, and we have developed an Emergency Operations Plan. We invite your participation in keeping the Plan current. Acronyms Emergency Planning Documents Socorro County Citizens Corp Council The mission of the Socorro County Citizen Corps Council is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service in order to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to threats to the security and welfare of the community. Documents & Records Socorro County Government PO Box I Socorro NM 87801 575-835-0589 x1105 This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies. LEARN MOREGOT IT