EM Overview

Recovery

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Emergency Management Overview

Thank you!

Dana M. Carey

Yolo County OES

dana.carey@yolocounty.org

Office - (530) 406-4933

Duty Officer - (530) 867-3025

Lake County

What's one thing you're gonna try to do that you learned in this course?

Intro to EOC

Public Policy in EM

What is the purpose of an EOC?

Key Concept:

Emergencies should be managed at the lowest possible level

Tribal EOCs can monitor:

• Trust lands
• Fee lands
• Cultural monitoring areas

An EOC is:

• A designated location

where jurisdictional representatives:

• Coordinate allocating resources
• Analyze and share information
• Make policy decisions
• Communicate

to support an emergency response

What does it do?

What can you do to help?

• Establish strong working relationships
• Lead and encourage
• Support your EM Program
• Understand and implement laws and regulations
• Encourage community participation

Why are they activated?

• Field forces (Incident Command Post), a city, or a department needs additional support
• Resources are needed beyond discipline-specific mutual aid (i.e., Fire and Rescue, Law Enforcement), or scarce resources need to be prioritized
• The situation needs a multi-jurisdictional, coordinated effort
• Resources needs may exceed city or county capability
• Incidents are part of a larger event
• Advanced planning is necessary for an impending emergency/event

Public Expectations

What would you like from the EOC?

Build Tribal Relationships

High

Medium

Low

What's the difference between the field and the EOC?

• Citizens Alerted in Advance
• Magnitude Assessed Quickly
• Citizens Kept Properly Informed
• Dangerous Areas Safely Evacuated
• Citizens Relocated to Safe Place
• Services Rapidly Restored
• Recovery Assistance Provided
• Impact of Recurrence Mitigated

• Develop relationship with tribal governments
• Each tribe s uniquely different
• Respect tribal protocols and processes
• Make your intentions clear regarding partnering
• Respect tribal sovereignty

Field

EOC

Information in the EOC

• Preliminary Reports
• Situational Reports
• Flash Reports

What do you notice about these three systems?

Legal Basis for Emergency Management

What is Emergency Management?

ICS, SEMS, NIMS

• Local ordinance
• State constitutions, statutes, and Executive orders
• Tribal laws
• U.S. Constitution, Federal statutes, Executive orders, and regulations
• Case law (court decisions)
• Standards and guidelines
• Contract law principles

Incident Command System

Let's start with where EM comes from...

Features and Principles

Types of Command

Incident Management Teams

Area Command

• Standardization
• Command
• Planning / Organization Structures
• Facilities and Resources
• Communications & Information Management
• Professionalism

Unified Command

But what is it....

Think about it as function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to threats/hazards and cope with disasters

Five Major Management Functions

Coordination

Standardized Emergency Management System

Inter-Agency Coordination

Operational Area Structure

Proclamations 101

It seeks to promote safer, less vulnerable communities with the capacity to cope with threats and hazards

Federal

• National Forests
• Recreation Areas
• Federal Responsibility Areas (Fire)

The duly proclaimed existence of conditions of

disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor’s warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake... or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat…”

State

• State Forests
• Ecological Reserves
• Preserves
• State Responsibility Areas (Fire)
• Departments (CalOES, CDPH, EMSA, etc.)
• UC System

OA EOC Activation Criteria:

• A local govn't asks
• 2 or more cities proclaimed
• County & 1 city have proclaimed
• Governor's proc has been requested
• OA needs to request resources from outside it's boundaries
• An OA has rec'd requests from outside it's boundaries

Special Districts

• Lake Water & Wastewater Agency
• Yolo County Flood Control

So what are your roles in all that legal stuff?

Tribal Nations

• Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
• Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians
• Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake
• Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians

• Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians
• Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians
• Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians

Cities

• Clearlake
• Lakeport

Emergency Management - What would you like to see out of EM here?

State Master Mutual Aid Agreements

It protects communities through coordination and integration among multiple response partners.

Section 8558(c), Chapter 7 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the California Government Code

Incident Command System

National Incident Management System

Consider all hazards, all mission areas, all incident phases, all stakeholders and all impacts relevant to disasters

Authorizes the undertaking of extraordinary police powers

Provides limited immunity for emergency actions of public employees and governing bodies

Authorizes the issuance of orders and regulations to protect life and property

Activates pre-established local emergency provisions such as special purchasing and contracting

Declaration -vs- Proclamation

Days to ratify your Proclamation

1. Make your Decision

2. Collect your Initial Damage Estimate's

3. Draft your Proclamation

4. Set your Schedule

5. Make your Notifications

Days to Proclaim to be eligible

for California Disaster Assistance Act Funding (CDAA)

Days to renew your Proclamation