Learning the Hard Way –The Evolution of Emergency Management

Chief Tom Sampson

Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA)

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Strengthening and empowering partnerships to collaboratively build a

resilient Calgary.

Vision

Individual responsibility, Collective accountability

• One team, collective goals: collaboration for excellence.

Values

Mission

Calgary: A great place to make a living, a great place to make a life.

Common purpose

Making life better every day.

Comprehensive EM Model

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Clear Priorities

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1. Life Safety

2. Property (Critical Infrastructure)

3. Environment

4. Economy

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City Manager

PDA

Policy & Integration

Local Area Planning

Inspections & Permit Services

Assessment

Transportation

Transit

Roads

Transportation Infrastructure

Transportation Planning

UEP

Waste & Recycling

Water Resources

Water Services

E&SM

CS&PS

CNS

Recreation

Parks

Fire

ABS

Calgary Housing

CEMA

Corporate Services

OLSH

HR

IT

IIS

CPB

Fleet

CS&C

CFO

Finance & Supply

City Clerks Law

AHS

ATCO

School boards

EnvironmentCanada

ENMAX

External Members

Calgary Police

Severe summer storm

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I. The past

II. The world today

III. Drivers of change and the future

Agenda

Edmonton Tornado 1987

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Tornado Pine Lake 2000

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Slave Lake 2011

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Lost sales, production and reputation are additional costs.

Calgary Windstorm 2011

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Calgary Metals Fire 2012

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“We can no longer afford to work at the speed of government” LA Fire Capt.

Calgary Flood 2013

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Snowtember 2014

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DOWNTOWN POW2014ER OUTAGEDowntown Fire and Power Outage 2014

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Severe Weather Events 2015

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EM as a discipline

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Social and technological trends

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Economic and political trends

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Environmental trends

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Environmental trends

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DRIVERS OF CHANGEAND THE FUTURE

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When a defining moment comes along,

you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

A connected world

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A connected world

Public Alerting

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Drones

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Data

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Data

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The power of preplanning

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The power of preplanning

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Emergency and disaster relief volunteersOrganized volunteer groupsSpontaneous volunteers

Engaging volunteer organizations and citizens in providing support and assistance following a disaster

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

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Having our message heard

34% of Calgarians

48% of Calgarians

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READYCALGARY

A rapid deployment, all-hazards disaster response team available to assist local

authorities in large-scale emergencies and disasters.

Canada Task Force 2

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Executive Command Team

• Experienced emergency managers

– Multi-disciplinary

– Incident Command System trained

• Future of Executive Command:

– Steering Committee

– Multi-jurisdictional

– Common level of training

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EOC

Ops

Chief

Planning

Chief

Logistics

Chief

Finance/Admin

Chief

Liaison Communications

Safety

Local Authority

ExecutiveCommand

Team

CANTF2 as a Provincial IMT

• Available immediately

• Trained and experienced with demonstrated successes

• Leverage existing resource investments

• Opportunities for participation by all municipalities

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EOC Models

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Partnerships

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DRP

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Challenges to the Profession

I. Corner of the desk

II. Candidates of tomorrow

III. Tap into genius

IV. Response focused

V. No execution

VI. Selling

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Corner of the desk

Candidates of Tomorrow

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Tap into genius

Comprehensive EM Model – Response focussed

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No execution

CulturalTraditions

GeneticHeritage

New Information

PreviousInformation

Analysis &Synthisis

faster

and fasterAdapted from Wikipedia

OODA Loop

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Selling the program

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Leadership

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The only thing that is

constant is change.

~Heraclitus

Comments or Questions?

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