Snoqualmie Tribe

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Snoqualmie Tribe

• What we have done and where we are going.

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Service Area

• The Snoqualmie EM Dept. serves
• The Reservation and 7 facilities
• 600 Tribal Members
• Approx. 60 Employees, growing to 900 by Fall of
  2008
• The 7 facilities are spread across 3 cities
• Many of the Tribal Members are spread out over
  approx. 175 Sq. Miles

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7 Facilities

• The 7 Facilities, including 2 medical clinics and
  the Tribal Administration buildings are served by
  2 different Fire depts. And 3 different Law
  Enforcement agencies.
• Our EOC is located in my office w/back up power.
• We have an MOU with the City of Snoqualmie to
  share there EOC if ours is damaged, or shut down
  for some reason.

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What are we working on now

• Currently installing Back up Gens. at our 2
  Clinics and the Tribal Admin. building
• We have just received 5 more 800MHz. Radios and
  we will be getting them distributed in about 2
  weeks to our Disaster Team members. We also have
  a few employees that take radios home with them
  and provide road reports on winter weather days,
  that I use to inform Members and employees, via
  e-mail about reporting to work.

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What we are working on now

• We also have VHF back up radios in 4 of our
  facilities and a mobile unit in the Directors
  car.
• We have just received a CEMNET radio from state
  EMD, which will be installed in the new Mobile
  EOC, which we have applied for.
• We have 4 HAM radio technicians, with more ready
  to go thru the training, as soon as we can get
  one set up.

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MRC Disaster Team

• We have started our Medical Reserve Corp (MRC)
  and will be working closely with the NWTEMC-MRC
  as we train and build our MRC
• Our volunteer Disaster Team is in place and we
  are almost finished equipping them. They are
  continuing to take extra training like CERT and
  Red Cross shelter set-up.

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Oil Spill Containment Boom

• The Disaster Team has been trained to deploy an
  800 ft. oil containment boom, for spills in
  rivers and watersheds.
• We obtained the self contained trailer from EPA
  and co-trained with ESFR, Fall City Fire, Duvall
  Fire and the KC Dive team.
• We have worked out all the call out protocols via
  an MOU.

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Plans

• HIVA
• EOP
• Fleet Safety
• Pan- Flu
• Health and Human Services Response Plan
• Resource Manual for local suppliers
• Employee Call Down list for disasters and bad
  weather days
• Working on our CEMP, to tie it all together

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Staying Involved

• Continuing to gather Best Practices from our
  partners. No need to re-invent things
• Regionally the Tribe is working with the
  following work groups
• NWTEMC
• EMAC
• Sheltering/Staging/PODs
• VPAT/PH-SKC (IMOU on NWTEMC website)
• Resource Typing

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Sharing

• We need to continue to work together and share
  our ideas, plans and information.
• If there is anything that we can help with please
  let me know.
• We were able to have a DVD on preparedness
  produced, while it is Pan Flu centered there are
  many good ideas on it. We hope to have it on our
  website soon
• www.snoqualmienation.com

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Prepare Now