TOWN OF EPSOM

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

PURPOSE – ROLE – HISTORY – EMD DUTIESROLE OF THE EOC

LMK EMERGENCY PLANNING ASSOCIATESBow, New Hampshire

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Provide an overview of the role of Emergency

Management in the community.• Develop an understanding of the duties of the EMD.• Describe the role and functions of the EOC.

LMK Emergency Planning Associates

DEFINITION

A program that implements the mission, vision, and strategic goals and objectives, as well as the framework of an entity to support ongoing efforts to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from any kind of emergency.

PHASES OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

• MITIGATION: Activities taken to reduce the severity or consequences of an emergency.

• PREPAREDNESS: Activities, task, programs, and systems developed and implemented prior to an emergency.

• RESPONSE: Activities designed to address the immediate and short-term effects of the emergency.

• RECOVERY: Activities and programs designed to return conditions that are acceptable to the entity.

DISASTER/EMERGENCY DECLARATIONSNEW HAMPSHIRE

1986 - 2012

• EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS: 13• DISASTER DECLARATIONS: 21• TOTAL DIRECT ASSISTANCE: $90 MIL.• SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE: $40 MIL.

HISTORICAL FOCUS

• PRIOR TO 1970• 1970 TO 1980• 1980 TO 1990• 1990 TO 2001• 2001 TO PRESENT

NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(NIMS)

GOAL: Establishment of a single, comprehensive national system that links all levels of government in every State of the Union.

• Established the DHS and Secretary• Directed the development of the NRP• Emphasized the federal role• Makes federal grants contingent on compliance

HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS

• All incidents start locally.• State support is initiated upon request of local

government when they have exhausted their response capabilities.

• Federal assistance is initiated when state government has exhausted their response capabilities

• State of Emergency vs. Emergency/Disaster Declaration

Community Emergency Management Team

• Town Manager/Emergency Management Director

• Police Department• Fire/Rescue

Department• Highway Department• Health Officer

• Recreation Department

• Welfare Officer• Town Treasurer• Planning Board• Library Committee

EMD Duties

• Completion and updates of the National Incident Management System compliance tool (NIMSCAST).

• Update the Town EOP. • Updates of the Town Hazard Mitigation Plan.• Develop a communications plan for major incidents.• Update the alert and notification data basis.• Establish a schedule and conducting meetings with the

Emergency Management Team.• Maintain SOG’s/MOU/s with partner organizations.• Participation in the All-Health Hazards regional

planning effort.• Development and maintenance of the EOC to

accommodate an operational status.

Duties Cont.

• Identify and develop a special needs population data basis.• Up-date the town resource list.• Conduct an EOC tabletop exercise.• Recruit individuals to support EOC administrative operations.• Train individuals in the use of WEBEOC to support EOC

operation and the reporting of operational status to the state.• Establish a training schedule for NIMS compliance to include:• IS 100• IS 200• IS 700• IS 800• IS 400

COMMUNITYEMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (EOC)

PURPOSE OF THE EOC

The purpose of the Emergency Operations

Center (EOC) is to provide a central location where government at any level is able to provide inter-agency coordination and executive decision making for managing disaster response and recovery.

THE EOC SHOULD NOT BE:

• A place where uncomfortable officials:

* meet in unfamiliar surroundings,

* to play unfamiliar roles,

* making unpopular decisions,

* based on inadequate information,

* in too little time.

MULTIAGENCY COORDINATION SYSTEMS

• A combination of resources• Integrated into a common framework• Used to coordinate and support incident

management activities

MULTIAGENCY COORDINATION SYSTEMS(Continued)

• Support incident management policies and priorities

• Facilitate logistics support and resource tracking• Make resource allocation decisions based on

incident management priorities• Coordinate incident-related information• Coordinate interagency and intergovernmental

issues regarding incident management policies, priorities, and strategies

MULTIAGENCY COORDIANTION SYSTEMS EXAMPLES

• Local/State EOC’s• Regional Federal EOC• Public Health MACE• Wildfire MACG• Military MACG

EOC ORGANIZATION

EOC Manager

Coordination Communications

Resource Management

Information Management

EOC ORGANIZATION

Coordination

Resources Priorities Strategic coordination

Resources Priorities Strategic coordination

Multiagency Coordination

Entity

Incident Command/

Unified Command 1

Incident Command/

Unified Command 2

Situation status

Resource needs

Other Multiagency Coordination

Entities

AN EOC IS MADE UP OF:

• Facility (s)• People• Equipment• Supplies• Communications• Procedures• Documentation

MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF AN EOC

• Direction and control• Information collection, evaluation and display• Coordination• Establishment of priorities• Resource management

ACTIVITIES THE EOC OVERSEES

• Start-up• Administration and documentation• Resource management• Disaster analysis• Decision making• Recovery• Communications and Information Sharing

THE EOC IS THE VOICE OF GOVERNMENT

• To keep the people within your jurisdiction of responsibility unharmed, save lives, protect property, return the community to normalcy and rehabilitate its citizens.

Field operations Public

EOC

Other Media

levels of

government