Regional Domestic Security Task Force RDSTF

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Regional Domestic Security Task ForceRDSTF

• Erika Wiker, RDSTF IV Planner

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What is the RDSTF

• Established as a direct result of the attacks of
  September 11th and the October anthrax attacks in
  Boca Raton
• Tampa Bay is known as RDSTF IV, made up of 8
  counties.
• Multi-disciplinary group made of public and
  private sector partners.

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Current Projects

• All Hazards Incident Management Team
• Regional Response
• Catastrophic Planning
• 5-Year Training and Exercise Plan
• Area Maritime Security Exercise
• 2008 RDSTF Exercise (August Council Briefing)
• Active Shooter Exercise (October Council
  Briefing)
• State-wide Exercise and Training Subcommittee
• Urban Area Security Working Group
• Super Bowl Planning

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Tampa Bay RDSTF LEPCBiennial
Exercise9709May 6-8, 2008
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Objectives

• Objective 1 Test activation protocols
• Objective 2 Evaluate the Incident Management
  Structure (ICS) within responding agencies
• Objective 3 Demonstrate the ability to
  establish and maintain multi-disciplinary/
  jurisdictional communications network
• Objective 4 Test adherence to pre-established
  evidence management guidelines
• Objective 5 Test the capability and adequacy of
  agency plans for responding to a chemical hazard.

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Scenario

• Intel reports indicate that significant threat of
  terrorist activity. Law Enforcement and Fire
  placed on heightened alert.
• Suicide Bomber hijacks a PSTA bus heading to
  Tyrone Mall in St. Petersburg.
• At 1210 p.m. bus slams into Tyrone Mall
  exploding a bomb.
• Aftermath
• 48 dead
• 125 critically injured
• 220 wounded

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Players

• Pinellas County Emergency Management
• Pinellas County Sheriffs Office-FRT
• Pinellas County HAZMAT
• Hillsborough County Emergency Management
• Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office
• Region IV AHIMT
• FDLE Composite FRT Team
• ATF
• FBI
• Florida DEP
• Region IV RDSTF
• Tampa Bay LEPC District VIII

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Suspect
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Strengths

• Existing working relationships among the
  responding agencies was evident.
• Specialty teams demonstrated the ability to
  activate, mobilize, and operate successfully in
  response to the incident.
• Emergency management staff in Hillsborough and
  Pinellas County successfully demonstrated the
  ability to activate and operate their respective
  EOCs.
• First time a connection between FBI and local
  asset was established providing both a secured
  and open channels.

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Conclusions

• Overall, the exercise was very successful.
• Subsequent Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
  updates and future exercises should include a
  focus on the aforementioned areas for improvement
  as well as the continued implementation of NIMS.
• Cycle of Planning, Training, Exercising, and
  making improvements is key to continued success
  in an emergency response to a large-scale incident

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Questions