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Sarah will provide an overview of the Galpins Road incident, a gas explosion in a residential sheet and the response, issues, and lessons learned over a protracted response to the needs of the affected community.
Looking at immediate needs, medium- and long-term support, changing issues, obstacles, and solutions to facilitate residents return, ongoing needs, support, coordination and recovery.
After working for over ten years in the private sector facilities management arena, managing British Rail administrative buildings Sarah joined Merton Council as a Safety & Emergency Planning Adviser. Following the development and publication of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, Sarah took the lead for emergency planning, within the team.
Over the years Sarah has led on London wide projects for developing training modules and participated in many of the pan London work programs. Having spent over 25 years within Merton and experienced situations from sieges, fires, floods, and several pandemics, she has built a very reliable team of trained response officers, and they have far exceeded expectations at every instance. Sarah has had the benefit of developing close working relationships with many of the officers who respond to our incidents both locally and across London, which was very beneficial during our response to one of the most challenging incidents Merton has had to respond to within our boundaries.