Case Study: Clinton County EMA improves rural incident coordination with D4H Incident Management

Agricultural Traditions Meet Modern Day Hazards with Clinton County EMA

The Clinton County EMA, an emergency management agency in rural Ohio, faced challenges preparing for and responding to a wide range of incidents, from agricultural chemical spills to airport emergencies, with a very small full-time staff. To coordinate their limited personnel and volunteers effectively and gain better situational awareness during crises, they implemented D4H Incident Management software.

With the D4H solution, the EMA created customized status boards to track resources like emergency checkpoints during an exercise, visually displaying their status with color-coding and auto-plotting their locations on a digital map. This provided the team with a clear, real-time common operating picture, allowing them to better manage volunteer deployment and monitor the spread of an incident plume, thereby improving their overall emergency response coordination and decision-making.

Clinton County EMA

Thomas Breckel

Director