NORTH CAROLINA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

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• NORTH CAROLINA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

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Presenters

• Scot Brooks, Emergency Manager Moore County
• Steve Powers, Central Branch Office Manager -
  NCEM
• Janie Pinkston Sutton, Assistant Director of
  Field Operations NCSBI
• Freddie Johnson Jr., Captain of Field Operations
  - NCSHP

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Planning Process

• Planned, organized, and implemented by senior
  leadership from multiple agencies operating under
  Unified Command.
• Complete buy-in from the top to the bottom that
  this was a major event for North Carolina and
  that it was going to be successful.

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Moore County Responsibilities

• Public Safety Coordination Plan
• Incident Communications Center
• Incident Command System
• Medical Plan
• Fire Plan
• Disaster Plans
• Severe Weather Plan
• Mass Casualty Plan
• Decontamination Plan
• Public Health Plan
• Evacuation Plan
• Geographical Information Mapping System

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Incident Communications Center
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Medical Plan

• Bicycle Paramedics

• Medical Cart Paramedics

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Medical Report

• 2121 patients seen in the medical tents
• 313 patients treated by the Bike Team and Med
  Carts (24 patients transported)

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Fire Plan

• Inspections
• Fire Watch
• Fire Carts
• Apparatus Staging
• Parking Areas
• Ingress / Egress
• Corporate Village

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Our thoughts on Success

• Our Management Team

• Our Management Philosophy

So thats exactly what we done!
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NC Emergency Management

• The NC Department of Public Safety, Emergency
  Management Division was involved in the planning
  process early.
• They attended every meeting and were engaged at
  all levels in the overall planning process.
• NCEM staff participated in the planning,
  development and delivery of a multi-agency,
  multi-hazard, pre-event Tabletop Exercise.

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NC Emergency Management

• A standby All Hazards Incident Management Team
  was developed by the Central Branch Manager for
  the duration of the event.
• The Accountability of emergency Responders was
  managed by NCEM Logistics staff and Area
  Coordinators utilizing the state owned Salamander
  System.

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NC Emergency Management

• NCEM and MCPS staff managed all Briefings,
  Debriefings, WEBEOC updates, Situation Reports,
  daily Weather Bulletins, etc..
• NCEM was instrumental in the overall management
  of the incident via the Incident Command System.
• An Incident Action Plan was completed for each
  operational period.
• Direct video / data / voice link with the state
  EOC in Raleigh.

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NC Office of EMS

• Surge Capacity at Moore Regional Hospital in
  conjunction with the RACS (M8)
• Ambulance Strike Team Plan

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NC Public Health

• Managed by the Moore County Health Department in
  conjunction with the NC Department of Public
  Health.
• Food Protection
• Disease Epidemiology
• Surveillance

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NC Public Health - Surveillance
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NC Public Health Environmental Health

• Extensive training for event volunteers related
  to food handling/preparation with catering
  companies
• Over 350 concession site inspections
• over 250 instances of non-compliance
• Delegation of Authority agreements with Moore
  County and neighboring counties

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NC Law Enforcement

• NCSBI
• NCALE
• NCSHP
• Law Enforcement portions of this presentation
  have been removed.

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• Our first major event after full VIPER
  implementation.
• Complete interoperability between agencies.
• Plenty of talk groups and handheld radios
• Redundant infrastructure

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NC Department of Transportation

• Road Signage
• Responsiveness to traffic and road conditions.
• Participation in the planning and management
  process

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Federal Agencies

• Federal Bureau of Investigations
• United States Postal Inspection Service
• Federal Aviation Administration / Federal Air
  Marshal
• United States Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
• 42nd Civil Support Team
• United States Department of Homeland Security

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Geographical Information System Plan

• Managed by the Moore County GIS Department.

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Strengths

• Working Relationships
• Large scale incident experience
• Live fire testing of staff, plans, processes,
  equipment.

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Questions

• Thank You