Emergency Services Support Unit
and Mobile Communication Center
This trailer is set up, equipped and ready to respond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year should a WMD (weapons of mass destruction) event occur and any local hazardous emergency event that may happen within Pearl River County to include the city of Picayune and Poplarville. Any law enforcement agency, fire depts., EMS services and public works can call for the trailer any time it is needed. Also the trailer can be shown for schools, organizations, civic groups, businesses or public agencies who wish to go through it. If you have any questions or want to set up date and time for show and tell please call Emergency Management at 601-795-3058.
Pearl River County received a Homeland Security Grant through Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to purchase Specialty Equipment, Communication Equipment, Detection Equipment, Decontamination Equipment, Trailers, Medical Supplies, Bomb Detection Equipment, Surveillance Equipment and Prime movers which could support weapons of mass destruction should an event occur in the county. The plan behind the Homeland Security Grant is to help the local governments through out the United States to equip themselves with enough specific CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear, Explosive) equipment to sustain themselves for a period of 74 hours, until the State and Federal help can arrive. All this equipment has been purchased with a 100% Grant from the Federal Government and that NO local tax dollars is being spent on this Trailer and Truck to include all the Equipment.
