Emergency Preparedness: Planning for the Inevitable

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Emergency Preparedness Planning for the
Inevitable

• August 24, 2006
• League of Arizona Cities Towns

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My mission By using lessons learned, current
policies, procedures, and expected actions,
identify your role as the Local Chief Executive
Officer during a disaster.
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Mrs. Smith
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DisastersNaturalTerrorismPublic Health
EmergenciesOther Types
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You own every disaster in your jurisdiction.
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Jurisdictional Capabilities State
Capabilities Federal Government
Capabilities Activation Procedures Leadership

What do you need to know?
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Coordination and CollaborationNational Response
Plan (NRP)
Coming together is a beginning keeping together
is progress working together is
success. Henry Ford
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Local Chief Executive Officer

• Coordinating Local Resources
• Prevent
• Prepare
• Respond
• Recover

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Local Chief Executive Officer

• Relax or strengthen local laws
• Suspend/relax local laws/ordinances
• Establish curfew
• Direct evacuations
• Order a quarantine

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Local Chief Executive Officer

• Provide Leadership
• Communicate to the public
• Help citizens, businesses, and organizations
• Ensure citizen and community welfare

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Leadership

• Uncomfortable officials in unfamiliar
  surroundings, playing uncomfortable roles, making
  unpopular decisions, with inadequate information
  in far too little time.

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Local Chief Executive Officer

• Mutual-aid agreements
• Negotiates
• Authorizes
• Resources sharing
• Infrastructure services
• Continuity of operations needs
• Recovery needs

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Local Chief Executive Officer

• Request assistance
• Local level
• County resources
• State resources
• Federal resources

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How do I improve my role?

• Collaboration
• Coordination
• Communication
• Guidance from plans
• Training/education
• Practice through exercises

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How to be successful

• Gerry Hoetmer, Public Entity Risk Institute
• Remove the stovepipe mentality
• Understand your role as mayor
• Coordination between governments
• Communication and training
• Better leadership, training, and communication
  will pave the way to improved preparedness.

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Additional Thoughts

• Effective leadership makes or breaks the outcome
  of a disaster
• Must have a good foundation
• Capabilities
• Leadership
• Training is critical
• Local officials
• First responders
• Emergency management managers

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Local Foundation Elements

• Good Incident Management System
• Lines of authority
• Current plans for disasters
• Good media relations
• Knowing the State, county, and local agencies,
  operations, and capabilities

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Local Plans

• NFPA 1600
• Strategic Business
• Emergency Operations
• Mitigation
• Continuity of Operations
• Recovery

• NRP
• Emergency Operations
• Multihazard Mitigation
• Continuity of Operations
• Recovery

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Healthcare Emergencies

• Establish a healthcare emergency coordinating
  committee
• Public health emergency plan
• Integration of State, regional, local, and tribal
  plans
• Formalize agreements
• Psychological support
• Develop a plan for responders, government staff,
  and their families

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Healthcare Emergencies

• Identify the authority to declare a public health
  emergency.
• Understand the process for requesting,
  coordinating, and approving requests.
• Communicate prevention measures.
• Identify the at-risk population in your
  community.
• Ensure plan is current.
• Exercise the plans.

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Summary

• What you need to know
• Your role as identified in the NRP
• How to be successful
• Types of plans
• Healthcare emergencies

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Thank You
For your time and attention