Emergency - major emergencies

What is an Emergency

Emergency - Any event (happening with or without warning) causing or threatening death or injury, damage to property or the environment, or disruption to the community, which because of the scale of its effects cannot be dealt with by the emergency services and local authorities as part of their normal day to day activities.

Major emergencies, by their nature, are low probability events they can not be predicted. The circumstances surrounding and causing a major emergency, the place and time it happens and a multitude of other causal and resultant factors means that action can not be predetermined.  The key to resolving any crisis is effective management.

Incidents

  • Severe Weather/ Flooding Riverside 1992
  • RAF Tornado Crash Glen Ogle 1 September 1994
  • Severe Weather/ Flooding December 1995
  • Dunblane School 13 March 199
  • Severe Weather/ Snow Ice 24 December 1996
  • Dunblane Gas Failure 3 November 1998
  • Fuel Crisis October 2000
  • Foot & Mouth 2001
  • Tigh Mhor Callander 30 July 2002
  • Fire Strike 18 October 2002
  • Mclaren Leisure Centre 16 January 2004
  • Lochearnhead Landslides 18 \19 August 2004
  • Severe Weather/ Flooding January 2005 

Management

  • emergency management is a corporate activity
  • it is planned and undertaken as an extension of normal day to day activities
  • planning for, and responding to, emergencies is an integral part of all Service delivery plans

The Council response to emergencies is based on the
principles of Integrated Emergency Management ( I E M )

  • We concentrate on the impact of the emergency NOT the cause
  • We respond to support the emergency services in their life saving phase
  • we also:
  • identify the most vulnerable in the community
  • prioritise the services they need
  • deliver those services in the most efficient, timely and effective way we can.