TSA G HUREX 09 Goals and Objectives

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TSA G HUREX 09 Goals and
Objectives

• Standup on May ?????
• State HUREX 09
• Exercise May 5-7, 2009

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Scenario

• Based on a H-120 Timeline
• Start time Landfall
• End time H72
• Hurricane Size Strong Category 3
• Strength of Storm Surge
• Lake Sabine Study area affected
• Location of Landfall path overland
• Eye strikes High Island
• How long to exercise? 2 Days

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Master Scenario Events List (MSEL)

• Two Inject methods
• General provide exercise play to all
• ---Weather Advisory
• ---State Situation Report
• Specific inject that exercises specific
  jurisdiction or agency
• ---County Judge wants to know what state
  is telling citizens about pet evac

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Target Capabilities List

• Isolation quarantine
• Communications
• Volunteer donation management
• Triage pre-hospital treatment
• Animal health emergency support
• Mass care supply distribution

• Emergency Operations Center
• Evacuation
• Structural damage assessment
• Search rescue
• Mass care
• Fatality management
• Environmental health
• Medical surge

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INJECTS

• Two inject methods
• General provide exercise play to all
• ---Weather Advisory
• ---State Situation Report
• Specific inject that exercises specific
  jurisdiction or agency

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INJECT Coordination Control

• Access to your local Emergency Operations Center
  (EOC)
• Your capability to
• Coordinate staffing
• Evaluate situational awareness (locally and
  regionally)
• WebEOC
• EMSystem
• HURREVAC
• Any other communication tool

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INJECT Evacuation

• Assess capability to execute the safe, managed
  evacuation of your facility
• Determine effectiveness of tracking system for
  incoming/outgoing patients
• Ability to support evacuation hub/staging areas

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INJECT Evacuation (cont)

• Assess ability of jurisdictions EOC to
  coordinate with medical operations
• Assess the MACC capabilities to coordinate with
  local operation centers DDC for response
  re-entry activities
• Assess ability to maintain flow of critical
  information
• Assess ability to incorporate alternate
  communications (ARES, RACES)

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INJECT Evacuation (cont)

• Assess ability to disseminate critical
  information regarding threats, health, safety
• Ability to establish a Joint Information Center
  (JIC) coordinate information
• Evaluate community informational structure to
  educate inform public of events

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INJECT Shelter

• Assess capability of effective shelter-in-place
  operations
• Assess EOC capability to activate, control,
  communicate, etc., activities for event
• Assess MACC capabilities for same plus coordinate
  with DDCs
• Assess ability to maintain communication,
  continuous flow of information for duration
• Assess DDCs capabilities to activate, etc with
  SOC and MACCs

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INJECT Shelter (cont)

• Assess jurisdictions situational awareness thru
  use of WebEOC, HURREVAC, etc
• Assess ability to disseminate critical
  information regarding threats, health, safety
• Ability to establish a Joint Information Center
  (JIC) coordinate information
• Evaluate community informational structure to
  educate inform public of events

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INJECT Shelter (cont)

• Assess capability to provide related sheltering
  services, i.e., food, first aide etc.
• Assess entitys ability to maintain, manage
  distribute medical pharmaceuticals
• Ability to coordinate medical support personnel
  as needed in community
• Ability to disseminate unsolicited donations in
  support of a hurricane event

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INJECT Shelter (cont)

• Assess the ability to coordinate and implement
  tracking accountability of patients
• Ability to manage medical pharmaceuticals
• Coordination of medical support, staff
  personnel
• Capability to effectively coordinate the
  management of unaffiliated volunteers
  unsolicited donations

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INJECT Re-entry/Repatriation

• Assess ability to receive and transmit critical
  information regarding threats, health, safety for
  the sight and hearing impaired as well as
  non-English speakers
• Evaluate ability to coordinate short long-term
  recovery mitigation processes
• Evaluate ability to immunize emergency
  responders, staff, volunteers, etc.
• Ability to disseminate unsolicited donations in
  support of a hurricane event

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INJECT Re-entry/Repatriation (cont)

• Ability to coordinate Environmental Health
  support for issues that could affect re-entry
• Assess ability to coordinate storage
  documentation of mass fatalities including
  personnel effects
• Ability to coordinate isolation/quarantine to
  contain spread of disease
• Assess plans for credentialing re-entry support
  teams

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INJECT Re-entry/Repatriation (cont)

• Evaluate capability to manage restoration of
  essential services
• Assess response in managing consequences of a
  hazardous material release

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PROPOSED ACTIVITIES

• Repatriation of medical special needs
• Animal evac/shelter operations
• Public information
• Emergency info management
• Continuity of ops
• Patient evacuations

• Resource tracking
• Special needs evacuee tracking
• Resource distribution
• Damage assessment
• Responder support
• Volunteer mgmt
• Repatriation security

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TSA G PLANNING STAGE

• Objectives from jurisdictions due March 15
• Hospitals
• Public Health
• Emergency management
• Volunteer organizations

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DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS