State Agricultural Response Team

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State Emergency Operations Center and Animal
Response

• FVMA 2005 Annual Meeting

Thomas J. Holt, DVM State Veterinarian and
Director Florida Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services, Division of Animal Industry
State Agricultural Response Team
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Florida Statute Chapter 252

• State Emergency Management Act

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State Emergency Management Act
Provides for
Department of Community Affairs Division of
Emergency Management
Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)
State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) and the
State Emergency Response Team (SERT)
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Division of Emergency Management

• Department of Community Affairs
• Mission Statement
• Ensure that Florida is prepared to respond to
  emergencies, recover from them and mitigate their
  impact

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Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan

• Provides guidance to state and local officials on
  procedures, organization and responsibilities
• Adopts a functional approach that combines the
  types of assistance to be provided under each
  Emergency Support Function

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State Emergency Response Team

• Made up of state and volunteer agencies
• Grouped by emergency function
• 17 emergency support functions (ESF)
• Emergency Coordinating Officers (ECO)

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SEOC Tracker

• Tracker is a mission management system that
  captures and tracks an incidents lifecycle
• Messages placed in tracker allow authenticated
  users to monitor an event as it unfolds either
  from within the SEOC or via the internet

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Requests for Resources

• Who wants what, where, why,
• how many, when, for how long
• Who
• (County, ESF, Branch Chief, Red Cross, FEMA)
• What
• (generator, ice, water, food, documentation
  specialist)
• Where
• (Orlando Regional Hospital, 2555 Shumard Oak
  Blvd, SEOC)
• Why
• (Need to power 1500 bed hospital, support 200
  patient dialysis center

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Requests for Resources

• How many
• (500 cases individual bottles, 2000 gals, 2
  specialists)
• When
• (ASAP, within 48hrs, No later than MM/DD/YY)
• How long
• (weeks, months)

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State Emergency Operations Center
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Built 1992, as a result of Hurricane Andrew
Built to withstand 200 MPH winds
Back-up water/electrical and communications
systems
Serves as Cabinet Operations Center during time
of peril
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State Warning Point
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SEOC War Room
State Warning Point
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SEOC Activation Levels

• Level 3 Monitoring
• Level 2 Partial Activation
• Level 1 Full-Scale Activation

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SEOC Chain of Command
Governor
State Coordinating Officer
State Emergency Response Team Chief
Operations
Planning
Logistics
Finance/Adm.
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Operations Section Emergency Services Branch
Human Services Branch Infrastructure
Support Branch Operations Support Branch
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Emergency Support Functions

• ESF 1 Transportation (DOT)
• ESF 2 Communications (DMS)
• ESF 3 Public Works (DOT)
• ESF 4 Fire Fighting (DOI)
• ESF 5 Info and Planning (DCA)

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Emergency Support Functions

• ESF 6 Mass Care (DBPR)
• ESF 7 Resource Support (DMS)
• ESF 8 Health and Medical (DOH)
• ESF 9 Urban Search and Rescue (DOI)
• ESF 10 Hazardous Materials (DEP)

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Emergency Support Functions

• ESF 11 Food and Water (FDACS)
• ESF 12 Energy (PSC/DCA)
• ESF 13 Military Support (DMA)
• ESF 14 Public Information (DCA)

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Emergency Support Functions

• ESF 15 Volunteers and Donations (FCCS)
• ESF 16 Law Enforcement (FDLE)
• ESF 17 Animal Agriculture Issues (FDACS)

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ESF 17 Responsibilities

• ESF17 is responsible for all animal and
  agricultural emergency management issues
• Animal issues include livestock, companion
  animals, exotics and wildlife
• Other responsibilities include aquaculture issues
  and mosquito spraying
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Hurricanes
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Wildfires
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Natural Disasters
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Terrorism
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Floods

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Foreign Animal Disease
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Domestic Animal Disease
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Plant Disease
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Plant Disasters
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Mosquito Spraying
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State Agricultural Response Team
SART supports the SEOC/ESF17 with personnel and
resources
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For more information about Floridas Division of
Emergency Management
www.floridadisaster.org
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Thank You!