IDF, police did not coordinate on Carmel fire
06/20/2012 18:59
The Defense Ministry’s National Emergency Administration failed to prepare
together with the IDF the defense establishment’s response to national disasters
like the Carmel Fire, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss wrote in his damning
report released on Wednesday.
In the report, Lindenstrauss said that the
NEA needed to prepare ahead of time a list of potential national disasters and
work together with the IDF to create various responses and solutions. The NEA
was established after the Second Lebanon War to coordinate between Israel’s
various emergency services in the event of large-scale missile attacks or
national disasters.
Lindenstrauss said that the fire demonstrated the
lack of coordination between the IDF and the Israel Police in home front crisis
management.
“The IDF and the police did not hold regular joint
assessments of the situation during the fire,” Lindenstruass wrote in the
report. “This was needed in order to properly manage the emergency efforts and
in order to see if the police was capable of managing the event or needed to
transfer responsibility to the IDF.”