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Community Disaster Preparedness Update
: Matt Brisbois :
Community Preparedness Coordinator
October 10, 2006 : City Council Study Session
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Backciround
Hired as Seasonal Ocean Lifeguard (1996)
• Hired as Community Preparedness Coordinator (June 24,
2006)
As Community Preparedness Coordinator, responsible for
all community outreach programs related to disaster
preparedness.
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Disaster Preparedness Mailer
• City-wide mailer sent to all 54,000
residential addresses in Newport
Beach
• "Partners in Preparedness"
• What residents can do before,
during, and after a disaster occurs
• Directions on how to create a
Disaster Supply Kit
• Tsunami Safety Rules
• Fire Department training
opportunities for residents
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Community Outreach Programs
Basic Disaster
Preparedness
Presentation
Neighborhood
Disaster
Preparedness Course
• Community
Emergency Response
Team (CERT)
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Basic Disaster Preparedness
Presentation
• Most commonly requested presentation
• Target audience: Presentation available to any
requesting group (home owners associations,
businesses, civic groups, etc.)
• Presentation tailored to groups request /needs
• Presentation time varies depending upon request /needs
(usually 30 minutes to 1 hour)
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Neiqhborhood Disaster
Preparedness Course
• Target Audience- home owners associations and civic
groups
• Half -day (3 hour) or full -day (6 hour) course, free of
charge to all groups
• Teaches residents basic disaster preparedness, family
emergency planning, and home safety measures
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Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT)
• Target audience- all 83,361 Newport
Beach residents
• Nationally recognized 24 -hour FEMA
training program (10 week course)
Free of charge to all residents, schools,
and businesses in Newport Beach
Course topics include: Intro. to Disaster
Prep., First Aid /CPR, Light Search and
Rescue, Fire Suppression, and Disaster
Psychology
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Future Proiects
• Continued expansion of CERT course offerings
Market and teach Neighborhood Disaster Preparedness
Course
• Creation /development of Business Disaster Preparedness
Program
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City Emergency Preparedness /Tsunami
Preparedness Update
: Katie Freeman :
Emergency Services Coordinator
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Background
Hired as Administrative Analyst in (2004)
Promoted to as Emergency Services Coordinator
(September 30, 2006)
As Emergency Services Coordinator, responsible for all
City planning, training, and grants related to emergency
preparedness.
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City Disaster Preparedness
Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Drill
• Annually
• Different hazard ex. Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Tsunami.
Emergency Management Plan (EMP) which includes:
• All hazards
• All functions
• All response organizations
• States how the City will operate in a disaster
• Updated every 3 years, next update 2007
Ensure Employees meet all Federal and State Training
Requirements
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• 825 full time Employees have completed all the requirements
Monthly Training for all new City Employees
• Disaster Service Worker (DSW) responsibilities
• City's role in a disaster
• Basic disaster preparedness
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City Disaster Preparedness
• Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC)
• The City Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC)
has been established as an informal group to provide
information, tools, solutions, and the forum to solve
problems and issues resulting from emergencies.
• Representative from every department
• Meets monthly
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Tsunami Warning
• Tsunami Warning
• Occurred on June 14th
• Offshore 90 miles off the coast of Crescent City
• Standard Tsunami Warning was issued to the
California coast due to the magnitude of the
earthquake
• Non Event
• Police Dispatch received over 600 calls
• Lifeguards cleared the beaches as a precautionary
measure
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Response to Tsunami Warning
• Tsunami Incident Action Plan (IAP) which
includes:
• Response for the first 12 hours of a tsunami warning.
• Instructions on how the City will receive a tsunami
warning.
• How public safety and key personnel will respond:
• Evacuation
• Alerting & Warning
• Sheltering
• Maps of evacuation routes, inundation areas,
employee inbound routes.
• Tsunami tabletop exercise was held on May 4, 2006
to test the plan.
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Tsunami Ready Program
• Tsunami Ready Program
• A National Weather Service (NWS) initiative that
promotes tsunami hazard preparedness as an active
collaboration among federal, state, and local
emergency management agencies, the public, and
the NWS tsunami warning system.
• This collaboration supports better and more
consistent tsunami awareness and mitigation efforts
among communities at risk.
• The main goal is improvement of public safety during
tsunami emergencies.
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Tsunami Ready Program
• What makes a community Tsunami Ready?
2 Establishing an Emergency Operations Center
a Ability to disseminate a Tsunami Warning (sirens, local
media)
o Tsunami Hazard Plan
21 Community awareness program
2 Multiple ways to receive NWS tsunami warnings
a NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)
❑ Signs on evacuation routes and beaches
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Total: 11 Signs
*All beaches
*Placed near
Lifeguard Towers
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Total: 21 Signs
*Superior Ave.
*Newport Blvd.
*Jamboree RD.
•Macarthur Blvd.
•Marguerite
*Newport Coast Dr.
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Future Projects
• Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Required by FEMA
• Mitigating hazards before a disaster
• Pandemic Plan /Continuity of Government
• Identifying critical city functions
• Possible 40% absentee rate
• No mutual aid
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• Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Required by FEMA
• Mitigating hazards before a disaster
• Pandemic Plan /Continuity of Government
• Identifying critical city functions
• Possible 40% absentee rate
• No mutual aid
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