Tropical Storm Ernesto

Tropical Storm Ernesto

Evening BriefingEvening BriefingAugust 28, 2005August 28, 2005

Please move conversations Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out into ESF rooms and busy out

all phones.all phones.

Thanks for your cooperation.Thanks for your cooperation.

Silence All Phones and Pagers

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• Medical

• Stress

• Severe Weather

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Safety Briefing

SEOC LEVEL

124-Hour Operations

EOC Staffing

• STATE COORDINATING OFFICER – Craig Fugate• SERT CHIEF – David Halstead• OPERATIONS CHIEF – Leo Lachat• ESF 5 CHIEF – Carla Boyce• LOGISTICS CHIEF – Chuck Hagan• FINANCE & ADMIN CHIEF – Suzanne Adams• PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER – Mike Stone• RECOVERY – Marcia Chiricos

State Coordinating Officer

Craig Fugate

Up Next – SERT Chief

David Halstead

Up Next – Meteorology

SERT Chief

Meteorology

Ben Nelson

Tropical Storm Ernesto – 40 mph

Steering Currents

Wind Shear

Water Temperatures

Afternoon Computer Models

Hurricane Ernesto – 5 PM Advisory

TS Force Wind Speed Probabilities

Hurricane Force Wind Speed Probabilities

Arrival of Tropical Storm Force Winds

Exit of Tropical Storm Force Winds

How Dry / Wet Are We?

Forecast Rainfall – Through Thurs AM

Storm Surge Forecast

Up Next – Information & Planning

Patrick Odom

Information & Planning

Up Next – Operations

Information & Planning

• Lead Planners have been embedded in Emergency Services & Human Services to facilitate communications and planning within the SERT and external partners

– Coordinate IAP, Branch/Section specialty plans, ESF/Branch

– Communicate needs, accomplishments, movements, information

– Focus on activities planned in the next 12 hours

Common Operational Picture

• Vulnerable population estimated at 1.6 Million– From Monroe to Flagler and includes populations

living in coastal surge zones, low lying areas and manufactured housing

• Planning for a paralleling category 1/2 storm• Track & intensity are still uncertain• Tropical Storm warnings posted from Vero

Beach South on the East Coast and Chokoloskee south on the West Coast including the Florida Keys and Lake Okeechobee

Planning Assumptions

• Occupied temporary housing – 3,568 within the area of interest

• Evacuation of SpNS residents & FL Keys patients began this morning @ 6am

• All NPP (Turkey Point, Crystal River & St. Lucie) are within the 3 day error cone

Planning Assumptions

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Washington

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Holmes Jackson

Calhoun

Liberty

Leon

Franklin

Wakulla

Gadsden

Gulf

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Madison

Taylor

Suwannee

Hamilton

Lafayette

Dixie

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Gilchrist

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Nassau

Duval

Baker

ClayUnion

Bradford

Alachua

Marion

PascoOrange

Seminole

St.

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Flagler

Putnam

Volusia

Bre

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Lake

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Osceola

Polk

Sum

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Charlotte

Desoto

Lee

Collier

Hardee

Hendry

Highlands

Okeechobee

Indian River

Palm Beach

Martin

Broward

Miami-Dade

Monroe

Glades

Manatee

Sarasota

St. Lucie

Ernesto Evacuations

Voluntary Evacuations

Mandatory Evacuations

Total Estimated at risk population:1.1 million

Broward effective Tuesday – MH and LLA and previously

Impacted homes from 2004/2005

Plans• Planning for support of elections is underway• Evacuation Plan developed• Next SERT IAP meeting at 6:30AM• 2 Additional planners reported today with 1 more expected

Tuesday

Reports• Situation report published at 1:30PM and 7:30PM• Intel Forecast report published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM and

11:30PM• Intel Critical Information published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM

and 11:30PM • Media Briefing report published at 9:00AM and 3:00PM

Up Next – Operations

Plans and Reports

Leo Lachat

Operations

Up Next – ESF 1&3

Up Next – ESF 1&3

General Operating Objectives

1. Evaluate vulnerable populations and the demographics/impacts of/to those populations (i.e. special needs, economics, ethnicity)

2. Determine potential impacts or consequences3. Determine affects on early elections already

underway 4. Continue staffing and deployment plans5. Support Evacuations6. Prepare for Impacts from Ernesto7. Continue financial management of operations8. Initiate Primary Response Operations

ESF 1&3Transportation & Public Works

Up Next – ESF 2

ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works

• Current Issues• TOLL STATUS• Tolls remain suspended until further notice as

follows:• Northbound Homestead Extension Florida

Turnpike (HEFT) from Florida City to Miramar


• Current Issues (Continued)

• Traffic Counters activated to monitor traffic in support of evacuation efforts

• Fuel at FDOT maintenance yards being filled and monitored

• SEOC Staffed for ESF 1 & 3 24hour Level 1 operations

• TEOC Staffed for operations

• Identifying VMB's, Cones and Barricades for MOT of DRC's


• Current Issues (continued) • Ground Recon teams identified

• Rotary Recon teams to be identified

• Tolls suspended on HEFT - From Florida City to Miramar, northbound only - to support evacuation efforts.

• Inventories taken for sandbags

• Inventories taken for generators


• Current Issues (continued)

• Army Corp of Engineers

• Sandbag Inventory identified

• Lake Okeechobee level at 12.13 ft• No issues anticipated


• Unmet Needs• None at this time

• Future Operations• Assist Department of State in Gen. power

for upcoming elections• Support mission under unified command

Up Next – ESF 2

ESF 2Communications

Up Next – ESF 4&9

ESF 2 – Communications

• Current Issues• Contacting/Coordinating with

Telecommunications Vendors- reports/standby• Responding and coordinating communications

requests for resources and equipment• Charging sat phones and cell phones for delivery

and pick-up• CSA's prepared for LSA Homestead and West

Palm Beach with phone lines and dsl connections (technicians dispatched)

• Coordinating contracts, agreements, etc for communications equipment services (i.e. cell phones, sat phones, sat links)

• Conference lines (Reservationless)

ESF 2 – Communications

Up Next – ESF 4&9

• Unmet Needs• Detailed information on communications

packages needed/requested for DRCs with location

• Future Operations• Continue to monitor storm and support

communications needs, restoration, resources requested as appropriate.

Up Next – ESF 6

ESF 4&9Firefighting and Search & Rescue

ESF 4&9 – Fire Fighting & Search & Rescue

Up Next – ESF 6

• Current Issues• Requested FEMA to federalize two USAR Task

Forces• * Other USAR teams have been identified as

state assets and are on standby pending storm development


• Future Operations• Continue to monitor Ernesto and respond to

Tracker request.

ESF 6Mass Care

Up Next – ESF 8Up Next – ESF 8

Up Next – ESF 8

ESF 6 – Mass Care

• Current Issues• Mobilizing resources and staffing to support evacuations

and reentry• Unmet Needs

• None at this time• Future Operations

• Has at least 100 ERV's staged and ready to move into Florida

• 4 Kitchens staged and ready to move into Florida• 400,000 Heater meals staged and ready to move into

Florida• 300,000 Blankets staged and ready to move into Florida• 200,00 Clean up kits staged and ready to move into

Florida• 20 Support trailers staged and ready to move into Florida

ESF 8Health & Medical


ESF 8 – Health & Medical

Up Next – ESF 10

• Current Issues• Total of 7 high risk patients transferred out of Monroe • One shelter (FIU) open with 4 patients and no caregivers• 9000 dialysis patients (keys to Volusia - of which 2792 are

in Miami) being dialyzed on a regular schedule - no problems anticipated

• Some hospitals seeing slight surge in asthmatic and respiratory distress

• Pre admitting brain and spinal cord and hospice high risk patients

• 2 DMAT's and 2 NDMS Strike Teams forward staging in Orlando


• Future Operations• Support local response as needed• Begin to move medical assessment teams forward to

Orlando on 29 August

ESF 10Hazardous Materials


ESF 10 – Hazardous Materials

Up Next – ESF 11

• Current Issues• Identifiying Personnel for Haz-Mat Teams • Communicating with EPA and U.S. Coast Guard• Contacted FlaWARN for Water Facility Response

Network• Monitoring Gyp Stack Impoundment Status• Established Cost Tracking


• Future Operations• U.S. Coast Guard Representatives to ESF 10 on

Tuesday• Preparing to assist Counties with Debris Staging

Site approval

ESF 11Food & Water


ESF 11 – Food & Water

Up Next – ESF 12

• Current Issues• LSA teams notified and on standby• Authorization to release Commodities in affected

counties has been issued• Water and ice being uploaded from state

warehouses• Unmet Needs


• Continue monitoring inventories• Continue to upload trucks of water and ice until

all trucks are loaded

ESF 12Energy


ESF 12 – Energy (Fuel)

• Current Issues• All ports are open

• 17 – 9000 gallon Tender tankers • 4 – 4500 gallon Tender tankers for search and rescue

are ready for deployment.• Retail fuel consumption has increased 10 fold, long lines

have been reported • Installed generators at retail petroleum stations:

• Florida Turnpike – All Service Plazas• Monroe County – 13 facilities• Dade County – 10 facilities• Broward – 18 facilities• Palm Beach County – 2 facilities


• Future Operations• Monitor fuel needs.

ESF 12 – Energy (Electric)

Up Next – ESF 13

• Current Issues (Electricity)• Coordinating efforts in trying to restore electric power at

early voting sites.• Monitoring nuclear power plant status.• No fuel generation problems per the Florida Reliability

Coordinating Council.• Unmet Needs


• Monitor current path of Ernesto.• Assist electric utilities in securing waivers and permits for

out-of-state crews. At this time FPL has 3,500 out-of- state personnel ready to assist in power restoration.

• Report outages and power restoration times after the storm passes.

• Coordinating efforts in trying to restore electric power on Tuesday, September 4 at voting sites.

ESF 13Military Support


ESF 13 – Military Support

Up Next – ESF 14

• Current Issues• On Duty: 146 Soldiers and Airmen

• Providing support to SEOC ESF's 5, 13, and Logistics• Providing LNOs to ESF 16 Multi-Agency Command

(MAC) in Miami• Activated 4 MACOM Planning Cells • EMAC request for Monroe County (C-130) cancelled • 3 RECON teams deployed to Ft. Myers area


• Future Operations• Establish/Support POD Operations • Establish LSA – Homestead AFRB• Provide LNO to County EOC’s – Dade, Broward, Monroe,

Palm Beach, Collier• Air Bridge to Keys (w/ USCG/Navy) if needed

Up Next – ESF 15

ESF 14Public Information

ESF 14 – Public Information

Up Next – ESF 15

• Current Issues• Continue to field press calls.• Continue to coordinate media availabilities.• FEIL has been activated. IRT has been

activated. • Unmet Needs


• Coordinate External Affairs Press Briefings and prepare for executive briefings.

ESF 15Volunteers & Donations

Up Next – ESF 16

ESF 15 – Volunteers & Donations

• Current Issues• Contacted county ESF 15 members in Miami-Dade,

Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe• Participated in the Miami-Dade Volunteer Organization

Active in Disaster (VOAD) conference call• Participated in the Florida VOAD conference call• Update the Volunteer Florida website to reflect ESF 15

disaster operations• Activated and staffed the Volunteers and Donation Hotline

– (800) FL-HELP1 or (800) 354-3571 – current hours of operations ( 8AM to 5 PM)

• Received an offer of hygiene kits and clean up kits from Church of Jesus Christ Later Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah

ESF 15 – Volunteers & Donations

Up Next – ESF 16


• Future Operations• Conference call with Florida Association of

Volunteer Centers (FAVC) and Florida VOAD• Updating draft press releases for distribution to

include:• How best to help?• Updating needs list• Post landfall activities

• Update AmeriCorps partners contact information and preparing to provide training to AmeriCorps programs

ESF 16Law Enforcement

Up Next – ESF 17

ESF 16 – Law Enforcement

Up Next – ESF 17

• Current Issues• LE-MAC established in Miami• State and Local LE for Mutual Aid Response

identified and prepared to respond.• Prison work camps in Keys closed and inmates

moved to institutional facilities.• State parks in keys closed and secured.


• Future Operations• Respond to and secure impacted area.• Assist with search and rescue

ESF 17Animals & Agriculture

Up Next – Finance & Administration

ESF 17 – Animals & Agriculture

Up Next – ESF 18

• Current Issues• ESF17 Incident Management Team (IMT)

activated• State Agricultural Response Team (SART)

participating agencies contacted and assisting• Monitoring Tracker


• Future Operations• Mobilize IMT• Perform damage assessments

ESF 18Business & Industry


ESF 18 – Business & Industry


• Current Issues• None at this time


• Future Operations• ESF 18 Conference Call with local Economic

Development Partners for local status/activity scheduled for 10 am 8/29.

• Logistics/ESF 18-FRF Conference Call with FRF members scheduled for 1:30 pm 8/29 for store status/COOP implementation

• ESF 18 Conference Call with Tourism Industry local partners at time to be determined on 8/29

Finance & Administration

Up Next – Logistics

Finance & Administration

Up Next – Logistics

• Current Issues• Funding codes have been established for TS

Ernesto• Emergency Purchasing Cards have been

activated• State Agency Finance Officers have been notified

to begin tracking costs related to TS Ernesto• Several Purchase Requisitions have been

submitted to support Logistics• Assisting with travel for deployments


• Future Operations• Continue to support EOC operations

Unified Logistics Section

Up Next – RecoveryUp Next – EMAC Mutual Aid

Unified Logistics Section

• Uploading water, ice and tarps from state warehouses.

• Will establish State LSA's at Palm Beach Fairgrounds (PRIME POWER TASK FORCE with USACoE) Wednesday AM

• Will establish a joint State / Federal LSA / FOSA at Homestead ARB Wednesday AM

• Heavy equipment package ordered• Prepared to support county PODs. Will deliver

commodities to CSAs in most counties vs POD direct

• Total of 46 PODS identified by counties

Unified Logistics Section (cont)

Up Next – EMAC Mutual Aid

• 3 Monroe• 3 St Lucie• 1 Highlands• 14 Dade• 9 Broward• 16 Palm Beach• FLNG to directly support 7 PODs• 2 Type I Base Camps and 1 Type V Mobile Base

Camp on stand-by• Working close with FEMA on pre-staging additional

resources fir the State. • Working with USACoE to establish typical State /

Federal Prime Power Task Force as in the past.• 10 Each Mobile DRC packages available

EMAC Mutual Aid

Up Next – Recovery

EMAC Mutual Aid

Up Next – Recovery

• Current Issues• EMAC A-Team from Kentucky (arriving 8/29/06)• Planner from Santa Rosa County (arriving 8/29/06)


• Future Operations• Continue to work mission requests as required• Coordinate with unimpacted counties/cities for in-state

resources• Coordinate with FNG for EMAC resources• Reminder: Anticipate staffing needs and requests for

federal assistance• (see me if you need the current Action Request Form or

ARF)

Recovery


Recovery


• Current Issues• Mobilizing DRC /CR resources and staff is briefed and on

standby for possible deployment.• 24 hour staffing roster completed• Personnel briefed• Housing Staff is supporting SERT Liaison Mission in

South Florida• Compiling the latest list of mobile home parks within the

projected impacted counties• Working with FEMA counterparts on Emergency Federal

Declaration• Unmet Needs


• Monitor/track Storm• Finalize roster for PDA Team

SERT Chief

David Halstead

Next Briefing

August 29 at 0800 AMBranch Briefing

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