tropical storm ernesto
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Tropical Storm Ernesto. Evening Briefing August 28, 2005. Silence All Phones and Pagers. Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out all phones. Thanks for your cooperation. Fire Medical Stress Severe Weather Parking. Safety Briefing. SEOC LEVEL 1 24-Hour Operations. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Tropical Storm Ernesto
Evening BriefingEvening BriefingAugust 28, 2005August 28, 2005
Please move conversations Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out into ESF rooms and busy out
all phones.all phones.
Thanks for your cooperation.Thanks for your cooperation.
Silence All Phones and Pagers
• Fire
• Medical
• Stress
• Severe Weather
• Parking
Safety Briefing
SEOC LEVEL
124-Hour Operations
EOC Staffing
• STATE COORDINATING OFFICER – Craig Fugate• SERT CHIEF – David Halstead• OPERATIONS CHIEF – Leo Lachat• ESF 5 CHIEF – Carla Boyce• LOGISTICS CHIEF – Chuck Hagan• FINANCE & ADMIN CHIEF – Suzanne Adams• PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER – Mike Stone• RECOVERY – Marcia Chiricos
State Coordinating Officer
Craig Fugate
Up Next – SERT Chief
David Halstead
Up Next – Meteorology
SERT Chief
Meteorology
Ben Nelson
Tropical Storm Ernesto – 40 mph
Steering Currents
Wind Shear
Water Temperatures
Afternoon Computer Models
Hurricane Ernesto – 5 PM Advisory
TS Force Wind Speed Probabilities
Hurricane Force Wind Speed Probabilities
Arrival of Tropical Storm Force Winds
Exit of Tropical Storm Force Winds
How Dry / Wet Are We?
Forecast Rainfall – Through Thurs AM
Storm Surge Forecast
Up Next – Information & Planning
Patrick Odom
Information & Planning
Up Next – Operations
Information & Planning
• Lead Planners have been embedded in Emergency Services & Human Services to facilitate communications and planning within the SERT and external partners
– Coordinate IAP, Branch/Section specialty plans, ESF/Branch
– Communicate needs, accomplishments, movements, information
– Focus on activities planned in the next 12 hours
Common Operational Picture
• Vulnerable population estimated at 1.6 Million– From Monroe to Flagler and includes populations
living in coastal surge zones, low lying areas and manufactured housing
• Planning for a paralleling category 1/2 storm• Track & intensity are still uncertain• Tropical Storm warnings posted from Vero
Beach South on the East Coast and Chokoloskee south on the West Coast including the Florida Keys and Lake Okeechobee
Planning Assumptions
• Occupied temporary housing – 3,568 within the area of interest
• Evacuation of SpNS residents & FL Keys patients began this morning @ 6am
• All NPP (Turkey Point, Crystal River & St. Lucie) are within the 3 day error cone
Planning Assumptions
Esc
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San
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osa
Walton
Oka
loos
a
Washington
Bay
Holmes Jackson
Calhoun
Liberty
Leon
Franklin
Wakulla
Gadsden
Gulf
Jeff
erso
n
Madison
Taylor
Suwannee
Hamilton
Lafayette
Dixie
Col
umbi
a
Gilchrist
Levy
Nassau
Duval
Baker
ClayUnion
Bradford
Alachua
Marion
PascoOrange
Seminole
St.
Joh
ns
Flagler
Putnam
Volusia
Bre
vard
Lake
Hernando
Citrus
Pin
ella
s
Hill
sbor
ough
Osceola
Polk
Sum
ter
Charlotte
Desoto
Lee
Collier
Hardee
Hendry
Highlands
Okeechobee
Indian River
Palm Beach
Martin
Broward
Miami-Dade
Monroe
Glades
Manatee
Sarasota
St. Lucie
Ernesto Evacuations
Voluntary Evacuations
Mandatory Evacuations
Total Estimated at risk population:1.1 million
Broward effective Tuesday – MH and LLA and previously
Impacted homes from 2004/2005
Plans• Planning for support of elections is underway• Evacuation Plan developed• Next SERT IAP meeting at 6:30AM• 2 Additional planners reported today with 1 more expected
Tuesday
Reports• Situation report published at 1:30PM and 7:30PM• Intel Forecast report published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM and
11:30PM• Intel Critical Information published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM
and 11:30PM • Media Briefing report published at 9:00AM and 3:00PM
Up Next – Operations
Plans and Reports
Leo Lachat
Operations
Up Next – ESF 1&3
Up Next – ESF 1&3
General Operating Objectives
1. Evaluate vulnerable populations and the demographics/impacts of/to those populations (i.e. special needs, economics, ethnicity)
2. Determine potential impacts or consequences3. Determine affects on early elections already
underway 4. Continue staffing and deployment plans5. Support Evacuations6. Prepare for Impacts from Ernesto7. Continue financial management of operations8. Initiate Primary Response Operations
ESF 1&3Transportation & Public Works
Up Next – ESF 2
ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works
• Current Issues• TOLL STATUS• Tolls remain suspended until further notice as
follows:• Northbound Homestead Extension Florida
Turnpike (HEFT) from Florida City to Miramar
ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works
• Current Issues (Continued)
• Traffic Counters activated to monitor traffic in support of evacuation efforts
• Fuel at FDOT maintenance yards being filled and monitored
• SEOC Staffed for ESF 1 & 3 24hour Level 1 operations
• TEOC Staffed for operations
• Identifying VMB's, Cones and Barricades for MOT of DRC's
ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works
• Current Issues (continued) • Ground Recon teams identified
• Rotary Recon teams to be identified
• Tolls suspended on HEFT - From Florida City to Miramar, northbound only - to support evacuation efforts.
• Inventories taken for sandbags
• Inventories taken for generators
ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works
• Current Issues (continued)
• Army Corp of Engineers
• Sandbag Inventory identified
• Lake Okeechobee level at 12.13 ft• No issues anticipated
ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Assist Department of State in Gen. power
for upcoming elections• Support mission under unified command
Up Next – ESF 2
ESF 2Communications
Up Next – ESF 4&9
ESF 2 – Communications
• Current Issues• Contacting/Coordinating with
Telecommunications Vendors- reports/standby• Responding and coordinating communications
requests for resources and equipment• Charging sat phones and cell phones for delivery
and pick-up• CSA's prepared for LSA Homestead and West
Palm Beach with phone lines and dsl connections (technicians dispatched)
• Coordinating contracts, agreements, etc for communications equipment services (i.e. cell phones, sat phones, sat links)
• Conference lines (Reservationless)
ESF 2 – Communications
Up Next – ESF 4&9
• Unmet Needs• Detailed information on communications
packages needed/requested for DRCs with location
• Future Operations• Continue to monitor storm and support
communications needs, restoration, resources requested as appropriate.
Up Next – ESF 6
ESF 4&9Firefighting and Search & Rescue
ESF 4&9 – Fire Fighting & Search & Rescue
Up Next – ESF 6
• Current Issues• Requested FEMA to federalize two USAR Task
Forces• * Other USAR teams have been identified as
state assets and are on standby pending storm development
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Continue to monitor Ernesto and respond to
Tracker request.
ESF 6Mass Care
Up Next – ESF 8Up Next – ESF 8
Up Next – ESF 8
ESF 6 – Mass Care
• Current Issues• Mobilizing resources and staffing to support evacuations
and reentry• Unmet Needs
• None at this time• Future Operations
• Has at least 100 ERV's staged and ready to move into Florida
• 4 Kitchens staged and ready to move into Florida• 400,000 Heater meals staged and ready to move into
Florida• 300,000 Blankets staged and ready to move into Florida• 200,00 Clean up kits staged and ready to move into
Florida• 20 Support trailers staged and ready to move into Florida
ESF 8Health & Medical
Up Next – ESF 10Up Next – ESF 10
ESF 8 – Health & Medical
Up Next – ESF 10
• Current Issues• Total of 7 high risk patients transferred out of Monroe • One shelter (FIU) open with 4 patients and no caregivers• 9000 dialysis patients (keys to Volusia - of which 2792 are
in Miami) being dialyzed on a regular schedule - no problems anticipated
• Some hospitals seeing slight surge in asthmatic and respiratory distress
• Pre admitting brain and spinal cord and hospice high risk patients
• 2 DMAT's and 2 NDMS Strike Teams forward staging in Orlando
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Support local response as needed• Begin to move medical assessment teams forward to
Orlando on 29 August
ESF 10Hazardous Materials
Up Next – ESF 11Up Next – ESF 11
ESF 10 – Hazardous Materials
Up Next – ESF 11
• Current Issues• Identifiying Personnel for Haz-Mat Teams • Communicating with EPA and U.S. Coast Guard• Contacted FlaWARN for Water Facility Response
Network• Monitoring Gyp Stack Impoundment Status• Established Cost Tracking
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• U.S. Coast Guard Representatives to ESF 10 on
Tuesday• Preparing to assist Counties with Debris Staging
Site approval
ESF 11Food & Water
Up Next – ESF 12Up Next – ESF 12
ESF 11 – Food & Water
Up Next – ESF 12
• Current Issues• LSA teams notified and on standby• Authorization to release Commodities in affected
counties has been issued• Water and ice being uploaded from state
warehouses• Unmet Needs
• None at this time• Future Operations
• Continue monitoring inventories• Continue to upload trucks of water and ice until
all trucks are loaded
ESF 12Energy
Up Next – ESF 13Up Next – ESF 13
ESF 12 – Energy (Fuel)
• Current Issues• All ports are open
• 17 – 9000 gallon Tender tankers • 4 – 4500 gallon Tender tankers for search and rescue
are ready for deployment.• Retail fuel consumption has increased 10 fold, long lines
have been reported • Installed generators at retail petroleum stations:
• Florida Turnpike – All Service Plazas• Monroe County – 13 facilities• Dade County – 10 facilities• Broward – 18 facilities• Palm Beach County – 2 facilities
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Monitor fuel needs.
ESF 12 – Energy (Electric)
Up Next – ESF 13
• Current Issues (Electricity)• Coordinating efforts in trying to restore electric power at
early voting sites.• Monitoring nuclear power plant status.• No fuel generation problems per the Florida Reliability
Coordinating Council.• Unmet Needs
• None at this time• Future Operations
• Monitor current path of Ernesto.• Assist electric utilities in securing waivers and permits for
out-of-state crews. At this time FPL has 3,500 out-of- state personnel ready to assist in power restoration.
• Report outages and power restoration times after the storm passes.
• Coordinating efforts in trying to restore electric power on Tuesday, September 4 at voting sites.
ESF 13Military Support
Up Next – ESF 14Up Next – ESF 14
ESF 13 – Military Support
Up Next – ESF 14
• Current Issues• On Duty: 146 Soldiers and Airmen
• Providing support to SEOC ESF's 5, 13, and Logistics• Providing LNOs to ESF 16 Multi-Agency Command
(MAC) in Miami• Activated 4 MACOM Planning Cells • EMAC request for Monroe County (C-130) cancelled • 3 RECON teams deployed to Ft. Myers area
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Establish/Support POD Operations • Establish LSA – Homestead AFRB• Provide LNO to County EOC’s – Dade, Broward, Monroe,
Palm Beach, Collier• Air Bridge to Keys (w/ USCG/Navy) if needed
Up Next – ESF 15
ESF 14Public Information
ESF 14 – Public Information
Up Next – ESF 15
• Current Issues• Continue to field press calls.• Continue to coordinate media availabilities.• FEIL has been activated. IRT has been
activated. • Unmet Needs
• None at this time• Future Operations
• Coordinate External Affairs Press Briefings and prepare for executive briefings.
ESF 15Volunteers & Donations
Up Next – ESF 16
ESF 15 – Volunteers & Donations
• Current Issues• Contacted county ESF 15 members in Miami-Dade,
Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe• Participated in the Miami-Dade Volunteer Organization
Active in Disaster (VOAD) conference call• Participated in the Florida VOAD conference call• Update the Volunteer Florida website to reflect ESF 15
disaster operations• Activated and staffed the Volunteers and Donation Hotline
– (800) FL-HELP1 or (800) 354-3571 – current hours of operations ( 8AM to 5 PM)
• Received an offer of hygiene kits and clean up kits from Church of Jesus Christ Later Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah
ESF 15 – Volunteers & Donations
Up Next – ESF 16
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Conference call with Florida Association of
Volunteer Centers (FAVC) and Florida VOAD• Updating draft press releases for distribution to
include:• How best to help?• Updating needs list• Post landfall activities
• Update AmeriCorps partners contact information and preparing to provide training to AmeriCorps programs
ESF 16Law Enforcement
Up Next – ESF 17
ESF 16 – Law Enforcement
Up Next – ESF 17
• Current Issues• LE-MAC established in Miami• State and Local LE for Mutual Aid Response
identified and prepared to respond.• Prison work camps in Keys closed and inmates
moved to institutional facilities.• State parks in keys closed and secured.
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Respond to and secure impacted area.• Assist with search and rescue
ESF 17Animals & Agriculture
Up Next – Finance & Administration
ESF 17 – Animals & Agriculture
Up Next – ESF 18
• Current Issues• ESF17 Incident Management Team (IMT)
activated• State Agricultural Response Team (SART)
participating agencies contacted and assisting• Monitoring Tracker
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Mobilize IMT• Perform damage assessments
ESF 18Business & Industry
Up Next – Finance & Administration
ESF 18 – Business & Industry
Up Next – Finance & Administration
• Current Issues• None at this time
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• ESF 18 Conference Call with local Economic
Development Partners for local status/activity scheduled for 10 am 8/29.
• Logistics/ESF 18-FRF Conference Call with FRF members scheduled for 1:30 pm 8/29 for store status/COOP implementation
• ESF 18 Conference Call with Tourism Industry local partners at time to be determined on 8/29
Finance & Administration
Up Next – Logistics
Finance & Administration
Up Next – Logistics
• Current Issues• Funding codes have been established for TS
Ernesto• Emergency Purchasing Cards have been
activated• State Agency Finance Officers have been notified
to begin tracking costs related to TS Ernesto• Several Purchase Requisitions have been
submitted to support Logistics• Assisting with travel for deployments
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Continue to support EOC operations
Unified Logistics Section
Up Next – RecoveryUp Next – EMAC Mutual Aid
Unified Logistics Section
• Uploading water, ice and tarps from state warehouses.
• Will establish State LSA's at Palm Beach Fairgrounds (PRIME POWER TASK FORCE with USACoE) Wednesday AM
• Will establish a joint State / Federal LSA / FOSA at Homestead ARB Wednesday AM
• Heavy equipment package ordered• Prepared to support county PODs. Will deliver
commodities to CSAs in most counties vs POD direct
• Total of 46 PODS identified by counties
Unified Logistics Section (cont)
Up Next – EMAC Mutual Aid
• 3 Monroe• 3 St Lucie• 1 Highlands• 14 Dade• 9 Broward• 16 Palm Beach• FLNG to directly support 7 PODs• 2 Type I Base Camps and 1 Type V Mobile Base
Camp on stand-by• Working close with FEMA on pre-staging additional
resources fir the State. • Working with USACoE to establish typical State /
Federal Prime Power Task Force as in the past.• 10 Each Mobile DRC packages available
EMAC Mutual Aid
Up Next – Recovery
EMAC Mutual Aid
Up Next – Recovery
• Current Issues• EMAC A-Team from Kentucky (arriving 8/29/06)• Planner from Santa Rosa County (arriving 8/29/06)
• Unmet Needs• None at this time
• Future Operations• Continue to work mission requests as required• Coordinate with unimpacted counties/cities for in-state
resources• Coordinate with FNG for EMAC resources• Reminder: Anticipate staffing needs and requests for
federal assistance• (see me if you need the current Action Request Form or
ARF)
Recovery
Up Next – SERT Chief
Recovery
Up Next – SERT Chief
• Current Issues• Mobilizing DRC /CR resources and staff is briefed and on
standby for possible deployment.• 24 hour staffing roster completed• Personnel briefed• Housing Staff is supporting SERT Liaison Mission in
South Florida• Compiling the latest list of mobile home parks within the
projected impacted counties• Working with FEMA counterparts on Emergency Federal
Declaration• Unmet Needs
• None at this time• Future Operations
• Monitor/track Storm• Finalize roster for PDA Team
SERT Chief
David Halstead
Next Briefing
August 29 at 0800 AMBranch Briefing