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HVBF Monthly Meeting - Facilities,
Security, Transportation Roundtable Host: Loyola College in Maryland Attending: Steve Antonsen, Colliars Pinkard Lt. Marty Lurz, Assistant Commander, Cockeysville Precinct, Baltimore County Police Department, began our discussion on the effects of the events of September 11 on our security. Lt. Lurz introduced Sgt. Anthony Zelenka and Sgt. Cary Koch of the Baltimore County Police Department Community Outreach Team for an in-depth discussion on terrorism. Sgt. Koch told us that terrorism is an attack focused on significant targets. Secondary events normally follow an initial attack. The attack on Tower II following the attack on Tower I is an example. This exacerbates the effects of the attack because of our normal reaction to rush in to help after a disaster. Those who respond are then susceptible to the secondary event. Restraint before rushing in will allow time to consider the safest response. Sgt. Koch defined different types of attacks as biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical and explosive. He defined each type and likelihood of use. In the event of a suspicious event, you must determine at what point emergency services should be called. A credible event always warrants reporting. Events should be evaluated for credibility. Summoning emergency services for unlikely events places a burden on services that may make them less effective if a real event occurs. It is important that every company develop a plan in writing. This should be tested and practiced. A copy of the plan should be filed with the Baltimore County Police Department at Cockeysville. It should be clear about who calls for emergency services, who clears the premises and who secures the premises. Sgt. Koch offered the following:
David Malkowski, S.H.A., provided two helpful handouts, one from the U.S. Postal Service on use of the mail to transmit anthrax and the other a C.D.C. health advisory on anthrax. If you did not receive copies or did not attend (and you should), contact me with your fax number and I will send them to you. The Baltimore County Police Dept provided a hand out of their regular bulletin “Business Beat” which is available regularly on the web at www.co.ba.md.us/p.cfm/agencies/police/media/business_beat.cfm or go to www.co.ba.md.us home page search out the police department under agencies, click on Crime Prevention and end up at the Business Beat section. Business Beat is a regular advisory from Baltimore County Police. More information on Bio-defense can be found at www.hopkins-biodefense.org Jack Gurecki of AAI asks if some of us would like to meet on a weekly basis to discuss current security issues. Please indicate your interest to me. We intend to make security a regular monthly discussion event but you may want to be more timely focused. This summary will appear on our website www.hvbf.org, click on the EVENTS section and then on the event to see a summary. The next scheduled meeting of the Roundtable will be November 28 at the Graduate Center at Loyola College from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Elwood Banister, Cockeysville Volunteer Fire Company, will bring a guest from the Baltimore County Fire Department to discuss disaster issues with us. Please reply to me if you plan to attend. Subsequent meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of each month. Please advise me if there are others in your company who should receive these summaries and announcements at director@hvbf.org. |