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Local Emergency Management Planning and the Post-Katrina Reform Act

Local Emergency Management Planning and the Post-Katrina Reform Act. William Wright Dr. Paul Williams Dr. Bill Thomas Don Hamilton. SHSP Grant. All agriculture programming funds are local MOU with ACCG Deliverables Local planning templates Planning support through exercises

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Local Emergency Management Planning and the Post-Katrina Reform Act

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  1. Local Emergency Management Planning and the Post-Katrina Reform Act William Wright Dr. Paul Williams Dr. Bill Thomas Don Hamilton

  2. SHSP Grant • All agriculture programming funds are local • MOU with ACCG • Deliverables • Local planning templates • Planning support through exercises • Risk assessment of agriculture & food • Building capacity • Training • Equipment

  3. SART • State Agricultural Response Team • One Type III team in state • Responsibilities • Foreign animal disease • Foreign plant disease • Food incidents • Natural disasters • Support to agriculture • Emergency food and food stamps • Companion animals

  4. What to Expect • SART will manage foreign animal disease • High Path Avian Influenza • Foot & Mouth Disease • Could be mobilized by GEMA for any incident • NIMS requires participation of local EMA • Possible Unified CMD (local’s call) • Need support of local resources

  5. Euthanize Unique Components to Agricultural Disease Events at a Glance Decontamination Disposal Protestors Quarantine Enforcement Quarantine Media

  6. ESF 11: Food & Water

  7. ESF 8: Vector Control

  8. ESF 13: Security

  9. ESF 8 & 11: Surveillance

  10. ESF 1: Transportation

  11. ESF 10: DECON

  12. ESF 5: Mobile CMD Post

  13. ESF 3: Disposal

  14. ESF 5: Public Safety

  15. SART Strike Teams • Specialized Strike Teams for Type III & IV incidents • Farm & Food Animals • Food • Companion animals • Requested through EOC • Fall in under OPS Section of your IC

  16. ESF 11 • Food Assistance • Food Stamps • Emergency Food & Water • Animal & Plant Diseases • Food Safety • Natural Resources & Historic Places • Companion Animal Sheltering

  17. PETS EVACUATION and TRANSPORTATION STANDARDS (PETS) ACT • 358 M pets, 63% of households • Katrina showed 61% of people with pets did not evacuate • Companion animals not included in plans • Limited number of pet friendly shelters

  18. PETS Act • Require local and state emergency preparedness authorities include plans for pets and service animals in their disaster plans; • FEMA has authority to assist in developing disaster plans to accommodate people with pets and service animals; • Authorizing federal funds to help create pet-friendly emergency shelter facilities; and • Allowing FEMA to provide assistance for individuals with pets and service animals, and the animals themselves, following a major disaster.

  19. Types of Shelters • Pre Impact/ Evacuation Shelters (Pet Friendly) • 72 Hours • Associated with Red Cross Shelters • Have to consider Special Needs • Limited Size 100-150 pets • Rescue Shelters • Post Impact • Large scale (400+) • Last up to one month

  20. Types of Shelters • Hurricane Impact Counties • Sheltering in place • Host Counties • Far enough in to not be victims • Pre-impact shelter could turn into longer term shelter • Local Disasters • Tornadoes • Floods • Ice/Snow • Terrorism

  21. Step by Step • Assistance available for local planning using the HSEEP exercise process: • Review/revise agriculture part of LEOP as needed • Develop/revise animals in disaster plan • Validate plan with table top exercise • Assistance available for animal shelter volunteer training

  22. Peach County • EMA Director, Jeff Doles, contacted • Initial planning meeting set • Doles set meeting of key players • UGA works with Peach contacts to develop their plan (app. 60 days) • Plan validated with table top (+90) • Parts of plan revised if necessary

  23. Peach County • Based on plan & situation • Assistance in organizing CART • Training for volunteers • Training for shelter managers (when developed)

  24. Equipment

  25. Planning DecisionsforAnimal Shelters

  26. Who will manage?

  27. What animals?

  28. Where?

  29. What care to provide?

  30. How to Dispose?

  31. Hall County • ESF 11 divided into functions • Animal Control is Animal Disaster Manager • CERT • XX people trained • CART • Work under animal control • Vet as leader/planner • XX people recruited

  32. Hall Issues • Approval by County Commission • Buy-In by animal control • Training volunteers • Equipment

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