los angeles county office of emergency management

Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management

Review of Identified Threats to LACO

• Civil Unrest• Climate Change• Cyber-security• Earthquake• Lone Wolf

Attacks

• Wildfire• Pandemic and

emerging infectious diseases

CEOC Emergency Activation

• The County EOC will activate when:– A City activates its EOC and requests support

from the Operational Area

– Two or more cities have proclaimed a local emergency

– The County proclaims a local emergency

During an LACO EOC Activation

• OEM monitors escalating incidents

• OEM ensures that responding agencies get incident information

• OEM distributes incident information to BOS and EM partners

• OEM keeps the State informed about response actions & capabilities

• OEM coordinates with Sheriff’s Department in activating CEOC

• OEM staffs key CEOC positions and provides liaisons to other EOCs, as necessary

• OEM collects cost and damage information to support requests for State or Federal assistance

2014 Winter Storm

• Facilitate daily stakeholder conference call

• CEOC Activated in support of the cities

• Processed Proclamations

• Expedite damage claims w/ State

Damage Assessments

• Initial Damage Assessment (IDA’s); Private property and small businesses

• Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA’s)-Cal-OES and FEMA

• Public Assistance-$33M Threshold per incident

Emergency Proclamations

• Must be declared W/I 10 days of event

• Grants certain legal immunities

• Enables local agencies to request State Assistance

2014 Winter Storm

• Facilitate daily stakeholder conference call

• CEOC Activated in support of the cities

• Processed Proclamations

• Expedite damage claims w/ State

Supporting Homeless Individuals During El Niño

Extending winter shelter operational period

Funding additional beds at winter

shelters

Engaging homeless individuals living in flood control areas

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Coordinating Public Preparedness and Safety Messages

Ongoing Operational Area Adverse Weather Planning

Conference Calls

One Voice County Public

Information Officer Task Force

Convened

One Webpagefor El Niño County Information

Coordinated and

accessible public

information

One Voice Twitter Hashtag

for El Niño:#LARain

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Centralizing Access to County Messages on El Niño

http://www.lacounty.gov/elnino

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Preparedness Messaging

Public Social Media Messaging

Gatorade Mission Control Center

Two-way Messaging• What others are saying

about you.• Counter messaging to

refute rumors• Re-sent by “trusted

agents”• Outpaces Press

Releases

Equal, Meaningful Access?

Jeff L. Reeb

jreeb@ceooem.lacounty.gov323-980-2261