New York State Emergency Management Office

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New York State Emergency Management Office

• David A. Paterson
  John R. Gibb
• Governor
  Director

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Mission

• To protect the lives and property of the citizens
  of NYS from threats posed by natural and man-made
  events.
• This is achieved via coordinating preparedness,
  response and recovery activities with local,
  state and federal agencies as well as volunteer,
  faith-based and private sector partners.

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Disaster PreparednessCommission Agencies
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• In 1996, Executive Order No. 26 established ICS
  as the States standard command and control
  system for emergency operations.

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Emergency Management in New York State

• All Hazard/All Disciplines
• 62 Counties
• 57 County and NYC OEMs
• Home Rule State

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Public Expectations

• Alerted in advance
• Magnitude assessed quickly
• Kept properly informed
• Dangerous areas safely evacuated
• Citizens relocated to safe place
• Services rapidly restored
• Recovery assistance provided
• Impact of recurrence mitigated

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Major Programs

• Communication Warning
• Planning
• Hazard Mitigation
• Emergency Public Information
• Chemical Emergency Preparedness
• Disaster Recovery Assistance

• Emergency Operational Support
• Radiological Emergency Preparedness
• Emergency Stockpile Equipment
• Training / Exercises

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All Disasters Are Local

• SEMOs Role
• Maintain a 24/7/365 Common Operating Picture
• Coordinate State response and resources
• Support to local government
• Coordinate damage assessment
• Advise Governor / Staff
• Prepare information for public release
• Request and facilitate coordination of Federal
  response

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Since 1954...

• 56 Presidential Declarations in New York State
• 56 Major Disasters, including
• 33 Named Flooding Events
• 8 Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
• 2 attacks on World Trade Center (1993 and 2001)
• 18 Emergencies, including
• 11 Snow
• 2 Love Canal
• 1 West Nile Virus Vector Control
• 1 Power Outage (2003)
• 2 Fire Management Assistance
• West Point complex (1999)
• Sunrise Fires, Long Island (1995)

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• Texas 81
• California 73
• Florida 59
• New York 56
• Oklahoma 54
• Louisiana 53
• Kentucky 46
• Alabama 46
• Illinois 44
• Ohio 43
• Missouri 43
• Pennsylvania 42
• Mississippi 42
• Arkansas 42
• Washington 41
• West Virginia 40
• Minnesota 40
• Virginia 39
• Tennessee 39

• Wisconsin 31
• Maine 31
• Georgia 31
• Alaska 31
• South Dakota 27
• Oregon 25
• Vermont 24
• New Jersey 24
• Michigan 24
• Hawaii 23
• Massachusetts 21
• Puerto Rico 20
• New Mexico 20
• Idaho 20
• Arizona 20
• New Hampshire 19
• Maryland 18
• Nevada 17
• Montana 17

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Disaster lossesin New York State since
1995have exceeded

• 5.3 Billion
• (Federal and State Disaster Payments)

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NY-ALERT

• New York State Emergency Management Office 

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History of Alerting

• Nations first alerting system.
• Instructed to ride on 18-19 April 1775 to warn
  John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British
  movement.
• Sexton Robert Newman and Capt. John Pulling set
  the lanterns in the Old North Church.
• By the end of the night, more than 40 riders were
  spreading the message to patriots.

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• Proliferation of Night Watchmen
• C. Clement Moore (1779 1863)
• Summer estate Chelsea - (now 15th St. 34th
  St./Hudson to 6th Ave.)
• 1940s-1990s Manhattan Project (tons of Uranium
  stored for nuclear weapon testing)

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• Control of Electromagnetic Radiation (1951-1963)
• Use of radio and television stations to confuse
  Soviet bombers
• Disseminate information to the public quickly

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• Emergency Broadcast System (1963-1997)
• Emergency Alert System (1997 present)
• Jointly coordinated by FCC, FEMA and NWS.
• "If This Had Been an Actual Emergency..."
• Expanded use for weather and local emergencies.
• Added cable, digital t.v., satellite radio and
  other digital broadcasters (2006).

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• What is NY-ALERT?
• NY- ALERT is the New York State All-Hazards
  Alert and Notification System.
• This web-based portal offers one-stop access
  through which state agencies, county and local
  governments, emergency service agencies and
  institutions of higher learning can provide
  emergency alerting information and routine
  notifications to a defined audience (local,
  county, regional or statewide).

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NY-Alert ActiveNotification Gateways
Alerting and notification through the use of FAX
Servers.
Alerting and notification through the use of SMS
(Simple Message Systems)
Emergency alert notification through traditional
EAS
NY-ALERT
Alerting and notification through the use of a
web site and RSS Readers (Really Simple Syndicate)
Alerting and notification throughthe use of SMTP
Simple Mail Transport Protocol)
Alerting and notification through the use of
phone dialers.
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OverviewNY-Alert Flow
Public/notification groups are contacted via
respected gateways.
Upon activation time, notification gateways
activate, allowingmessage to be disseminated.
Authorized Users, through the use of the
internet, access NY-Alert.
Auth. User crafts message for either public
alertor private notification.
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NY-Alert Capabilities

• NY-ALERT, with its existing infrastructure, can
  store over 25,000,000 civilians within the
  database. 
• NY-ALERT can have over 1 million notification
  groups created.
• NY-ALERT is housed and activated (hot synced)
  within two disparate SEMO data centers. This
  allows NY-ALERT to be fully disaster recoverable.
• NY-ALERT can open over 40,000 email connections
  per site for delivery.
• Depending upon provider and cell tower coverage,
  10 SMS per second.
• NY-ALERT has 5,000 dialers.
• Registered with 26 anti-spam sites registered
  as a .gov
• NY-ALERT can support up to 14,000 Authorized
  Users concurrently within the system at any given
  time.

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NY-Alert Phase 13rd Party Plug-ins
NWS National Weather Services events can also
trigger remote notifications.
RSS FeedsUnit will be monitoring and subscribe
to 3rd party RSS feeds for notification.
Siren Controllers Activation of the notification
system through Indian Points Siren system.
EAS ENDEC EAS activation will also be monitored
and reported within the Portal.
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NY-Alert Phase 2New Notification Gateways
Notification and dissemination across the
popular IM technology.
IM
NY-Alert
Notification and dissemination based on the
proximity of a cell tower.
Notification and dissemination across the
popular Satellite Radio and Navigation systems.
Satellite
Cell Casting
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Counties Status

• Broome
• Chautauqua
• Clinton
• Cortland
• Dutchess
• Erie
• Essex
• Madison
• Nassau
• Orange
• Putnam
• Rockland
• Schoharie
• Suffolk
• Sullivan
• Steuben
• Ulster
• Wayne
• Wyoming

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State Agencies Status

• Department of Corrections
• Division of Military/Naval Affairs
• Department of Transportation
• Empire Dev. Corp
• Department of Labor
• Department of Housing
• Insurance Department
• New York State Police
• Office of Homeland Security

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NY-Alert Sign-Up
www.nyalert.gov
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NY-DELIVERS

• New York States Emergency Management
  Public-Private Initiative

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NY-DELIVERS

• Business typically responds better than
  government in crisis situations because
  successful executives are used to taking risks
  and being the first to produce new products
  government officials tend to wait for broad
  consensus to emerge.
• - The Politics of Disaster, Marvin Olasky

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NY-DELIVERS

• One way then to improve disaster relief is to
  find ways for major companies to serve greater
  humanitarian purposes without breaking their
  business charters.
• - The Politics of Disaster, Marvin Olasky
• private sector preparedness is not a luxury it
  is a cost of doing business in the post 9/11
  world. It is ignored at a tremendous potential
  cost in lives, money and national security.
• - 9/11 Commission Report

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Federal Support for Public-Private Initiatives
(www.LLLIS.gov)

• Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)
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• tasks the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  and various federal agencies with coordinating
  information sharing and other protective measures
  with the private sector.
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9
• establishes public-private information sharing as
  part of a national policy to protect the nations
  agriculture and food systems.
• The National Preparedness Standard on
  Disaster/Emergency Management and Business
  Continuity
• recommends cross-sector cooperation on a number
  of issues.
• The National Response Plan
• outlines the roles and responsibilities of the
  private sector in emergency response, including
  coordination with public sector responders.

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Federal Support for Public-Private Initiatives
(www.LLLIS.gov)

• The National Strategy for Homeland Security
• government at the federal, state, and local
  level must actively collaborate and partner with
  the private sector.
• The National Strategy for the Physical Protection
  of Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets
• local communities play critical roles in
  engaging their public and private leadership in
  the development of coordinated local and regional
  plans to assure the protection of residents and
  businesses.
• The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
• identifies public-private partnerships as a key
  component of cyber-security.

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NY-DELIVERS Chaos Theory

• Just in Time inventories
• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing
• Increased fragility in supply chains
• Increased vulnerability to natural or man-made
  disturbances
• Result Interdependencies exist therefore
  cooperation is needed.

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NY-DELIVERS ASSUMPTIONS

• Businesses are the economic backbone of our
  communities.
• Businesses need access to as near-real time
  intel/info to minimize negative impact.
• Businesses can provide near-real time intel/info
  to government entities.
• Business will be there whether the integration
  is in place or not better to have it in place.

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NY-DELIVERS

• Goals
• Promote corporate business continuity planning,
  mitigation strategies and employee education.
• Minimize damage and down time for NYS
  businesses.
• Expedite the return to normalcy following an
  untoward event.
• Reduce the reliance upon government to fill in
  the gaps.
• Identify synergies and best-practices between
  business and government to provide relief
  supplies, supply chaining, and infrastructure
  restoration.

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Business Operations Center

• Build out at NYSEMO HQ complete.
• Allows for staffing by individual business and/or
  association members representing large sectors.
• Will serve as real-time information sharing
  center between NYS government and private sector.
• Envisioned as a Value Networking Center rather
  than a traditional Emergency Operations Center.

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NY-DELIVERS SNAP SHOT START

• Initiate Outreach Establish Relationships
• Major Players
• Walmart, DHL, Home Depot, CVS, Target, etc.
• Contingency Planning Groups
• CPE, Clearing House, PhARMA, BENS, etc.
• Share Data
• Meetings, GIS, SOGs, discuss strengths and
  weaknesses, etc.
• Identify Best Practices
• Business Other States Initiatives
• Encourage Businesses to Do Business with NYS

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• Gregory T. Brunelle, MS
• Deputy Director Preparedness
• New York State Emergency Management Office
• Building 22, Suite 101
• 1220 Washington Avenue
• Albany, New York 12226
• 518.292.2252 office
• 518.596.0101 mobile
• greg.brunelle_at_semo.state.ny.us