Chain of Events in an Emergency

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• Chain of Events in an Emergency
• Responsibilities in a Disaster

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Terminal Learning Objective The participant will
discuss concept of R-A-I-N in dealing with
agricultural incidents, list who should be
contacted in an agricultural emergency, increase
knowledge of chain of events that occur when an
agricultural incident is reported, identify
appropriate responses to a foreign animal or
plant disease outbreak, describe how the incident
command system could function in an outbreak,
outline tasks necessary to prepare your local
community to handle an agriculture and food
emergency. Enabling Learning Objectives 1.1
Discuss concept of R-A-I-N in dealing with
agricultural incidents. 1.2 List who should be
contacted in an agricultural emergency. 1.3
Increase knowledge of chain of events that occur
when an agricultural incident is reported. 1.4
Identify appropriate responses to a foreign
animal or plant disease outbreak. 1.5 Describe
how the incident command system could function in
an outbreak. 1.6 Outline tasks necessary to
prepare your local community to handle an
agriculture and food emergency.
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Objectives for Participants

• To review the concept of R-A-I-N in dealing with
  agricultural incidents
• To determine who should be contacted in an
  agricultural emergency
• To become familiar with the chain of events that
  occur when an agricultural incident is reported
• To review appropriate responses to a foreign
  animal or plant disease outbreak

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Objectives for Participants

• To become familiar with how the incident command
  system could function in an outbreak
• To begin thinking about how prepared your local
  community is to handle an agriculture and food
  emergency

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Initiation of Chain of Events

• All emergencies begin at the local level
• Starts when one person notices something unusual
  and TAKES ACTION
• Rapid detection and notification is critical
• Alert passed on to local, state or federal
  officials

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At the local level

• Recognize
• Avoid
• Isolate
• Notify

R-A-I-N
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What happens next?

• Depends on type of hazard
• If FAD or FPD suspected, state and
  federal officials operate joint command
• If also agroterror event, law enforcement in
  charge of crisis management and other agencies
  manage consequences

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Chain of Events

• Local resources used and overwhelmed
• Assistance requested from state government
• State resources provided usual and customary
• Governor declares a state of emergency all
  state resources
• State resources overwhelmed
• Assistance requested from federal government
• Federal resources provided usual and customary
• Secretary of Agriculture extraordinary emergency
  declaration with FAD or FPD
• President declares state of disaster - all
  federal resources

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Exceptions

• Certain steps may be circumvented to expedite
  response
• For example
• FAD outbreak immediately results in federal
  involvement with request for Secretary of
  Agriculture to declare extraordinary emergency

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Special Declarations

• State
• Governor Declaration
• State of Emergency public health, public safety
• U.S. Dept of Agriculture
• Secretary of Agriculture Extraordinary Emergency
• Example FAD or FPD
• U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, FEMA
• Presidential Disaster Declaration
• State monetary losses reach 1 per capita, or
• Mass casualties or mass fatalities, or
• To save life and property

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Response to a Foreign Animal Disease

• Quarantine
• Depopulation
• Disposal
• Cleaning Disinfecting
• Ring vaccination
• Repopulation

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Dispatch Foreign Animal Disease Diagnosticians
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Georgia State Operations Center (SOC)
Request Governor to Declare Emergency
Activate State Resources
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Rule Out Agroterrorism FBI Assumes FAD is
Agroterror until determined otherwise 1st
Crisis Management FBI/GBI Lead Agencies 2nd
Consequence Management GEMA GDA SARTS Support
Agencies
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Response to a Foreign Plant Disease

• Destroy infected plants, followed by moratorium
  period
• Switch to non-host crop
• Apply herbicides to destroy alternate hosts
• Apply insecticides to kill insect vectors
• Apply pesticides to plants/soil to inhibit or
  kill the pathogen
• Develop long-term control measures to manage
  disease
• Increase monitoring

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Incident Command System - FAD
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State Agriculture Response Team(s)
State Agriculture Response Teams 8 GEMA Areas
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Next Steps
How prepared is your county to handle an
agriculture or food emergency?
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For Activities 5,6, 7 and 8
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Reference List For More Information

• See Your Textbooks
• Protecting Georgias Agriculture and Food
  Agrosecurity. Chapters 2, 3 and 4.
• Protecting Americas Agriculture and Food
  Agrosecurity. Chapter 5.

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