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Pierce County Emergency Operations

Pierce County Department of Emergency Management *EMAP Accredited* . Pierce County Emergency Operations. Presented by Ken Parrish Pierce County Emergency Management . Emergency Management . Services Offered: 5 Divisions: Emergency Management, Fire Prevention, Communications, US&R, E9-1-1.

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Pierce County Emergency Operations

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  1. Pierce County Department of Emergency Management*EMAP Accredited* Pierce County Emergency Operations Presented by Ken Parrish Pierce County Emergency Management

  2. Emergency Management Services Offered: • 5 Divisions: Emergency Management, Fire Prevention, Communications, US&R, E9-1-1. • 24/7 Alert & Warning, PCWARN, PC Alert. • 24/7 Emergency Duty Officer coverage. • Activation of the EOC to support response & recovery. • Deployment of MOCC, TACC1 or other response Command, Communications, Control Assets, Trained Incident Management Team.

  3. Pierce County EOC Project • $12.1 Million Dollar Project • State-of-the-art, survivable facility, rated in the top five EOC’s nationally by DHS • Multiple systems redundancies • Regional and mobile integration and interoperability • Will support multiple, simultaneous events • Backup E-9-1-1, and Law and Fire Dispatch capability, and back-up State EOC • Backup Cascade Volcano monitoring, and master site for Public Safety Radio Comms.

  4. Pierce County EOC

  5. Pierce County EOC

  6. Mobile Operations Command & CommunicationsMOCC

  7. Helping Neighbors Help Themselves

  8. Neighborhoods • Recognized as National “Best Practice” by US Congressional award. • Defined as a typical Block Watch group of 25 to 50 homes. • Program can build on established programs such as Block Watch, Safe Streets, Weed & Seed, neighborhood associations, etc. • No special skills or equipment are required to participate.

  9. PC-NET Neighborhoods • Plan ahead of time how to respond as a group to a disaster. • Neighbors… • sign up for teams, • gather supplies and • practice with drills. • No special skills or training are required except first aid. • This is a program that pays for itself through Neighbors who learn they can make a difference, if they have a plan.

  10. PC-NET is easy, fun and very rewarding!

  11. Public Education

  12. Children to Seniors • Civic Groups • Senior Centers • Assisted Living Apartments -- Residents / Staff • Churches • Schools -- Staff Mtgs / PTA • Pre-Schools-- Staff Mtgs • Head Start/E-CAP -- Parent Mtgs • Safety Fairs • Fire Department Open House • Other Events • AARP

  13. What Does This Give You? For the Children: • 9-1-1 Training • Earthquake and other Hazards Training For the Adults: • All-Hazards Preparedness Presentation • 9-1-1 Informational Presentation • Any important issues of the day

  14. Mitigation

  15. Hazard Mitigation? Actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to people, property, or the environment from hazards and their effects. • Hazardous Area Regulations • Property Buy-Outs • Elevating Homes • Flood Control Dams • Structural Seismic Retrofit • Non-Structural Seismic Retrofit

  16. Plans

  17. All–Hazards Emergency Planning • County, City, and Regional comprehensive emergency management / response plans (CEMP) • Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP) • Hazard identification and risk assessment

  18. Training Visit http://www.piercecountywa.org/index.aspx?NID=104 to learn about all of our Training and Public Education Opportunities.

  19. Response/Recovery Training • All Phases of Response & Recovery • EOC Sustainment • Elected Officials Training • DEM University • Technical skills for First Responders (fee) • Multi-Hazard workshop for schools • Emergency Preparedness • ICS/EOC Interface Workshops • ATC-20

  20. Recovery

  21. Disaster Recovery • Recovery is both a short-term activity intended to return vital life-support systems to operation, and a long-term activity designed to return infrastructure systems to pre-disaster conditions.

  22. Damage Assessment • Determine Losses • Collate Information • Coordinate with State, Local, and Tribal Agencies Presidential Disaster Declaration

  23. Recovery Programs • Stafford Act and Small Business Administration • Public Assistance • Human Services • Mitigation • Low Interest Loans

  24. Thank You! Pierce County Department of Emergency Management2501 South 35th Street Tacoma, WA 98409-7405 (253) 798-6595PCEMERMGMT@co.pierce.wa.us http://www.piercecountywa.org/index.aspx?NID=104

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