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Tyne and Wear Emergency Planning Unit
Tyne & Wear Emergency
Planning Unit, Pennine House, Washington, NE37 1LY, Tel: 0191-561
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Welcome to our site.
Tyne and Wear Emergency Planning Unit (EPU), located in offices near the Galleries shopping Centre in Washington, are a team of highly experienced Emergency Planning Officers and support staff, led by Val Bowman, Chief Emergency Planning Officer.
Tyne and Wear EPU in consultation with the five Councils and
a range of other partner agencies develops and maintains both
generic and specialist Major Incident Plans. These plans are
designed to assist the Local Authorities and responding agencies
in their efforts to effectively coordinate resources to minimize
the effect of a major incident. The EPU also provides additional
support to the Councils on a range of emergency preparedness
and response issues.
  
During an incident the EPU will act in an advisory role and
will also co-ordinate the efforts of any voluntary agencies
to assist the Local Authority. The EPU will also co-ordinate
any mutual aid arrangements from neighbouring Local Authorities
should the incident warrant such assistance.
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| Tyne and
Wear Emergency Planning Unit (EPU) provides an emergency
planning service to the five Councils of Tyne and
Wear. |
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 Major
incidents
The discovery of an unexploded German bomb in Hendon in 2002
serves as a reminder to us all that major Incidents occur,
for a wide variety of reasons.
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 Looking
back into relatively recent local history, the industrial
Fire at Distillex in North Shields in 2002, the tragic
loss of life in the Selby
train crash of February 2001 where 10 people lost their
lives and the devastating downing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie
in 1988 which claimed 270 lives.
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