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WatchtowerTexas Emergency Manager Conference April 17, 2019
Presented by:
Andy Cardiel - City of New Braunfels Office of Emergency Management
Lisa Rubey – New Braunfels CERT Program Manager
Session Topics
Introduction
NBCERT Program
01Developing Watchtower
02Watchtower in Action
03
This is us:
Andy CardielNew Braunfels OEM
Lisa Rubey NBCERT Program
Manager
NBCERT Structure Sponsored by: City of New Braunfels Fire Department
Office of Emergency Management: Andy Cardiel, EMC
Managed by: NBCERT Program Manager, Lisa Rubey
Our Branches:
Event & Emergency Response: Damage Assessment,
Shelter, Outreach
Medical: First Aid Events
Search & Rescue: NASAR Credentialed Team
Incident Management Team: Support EOC & Operations
Training: Develops members skills
Logistics: Support our operations
PIO: Manages our NBCERT message
NBCERT Program Structure
Public Service Events First Aid Events EOC Operation Search & Rescue CERT/SAR Training Service & Support
Emergency Events Watchtower
Shelter IAP
Damage Assessment Coms
Moulage
Public Information
Officer
Vickie Adams
Ruby Moseley
Event/Emergency
Response Branch
Jennifer Pfannstiel
Deputy - OPEN
Medical
Team Branch Paul Ericksen
Deputy - OPEN
IMT Branch
Nadine Carlson
Corey Carlisle
Deputy
Jeri Burgess
Search & Rescue
Team Branch
Paul Ericksen-Capt
Lisa Rubey - Lt
Training Branch Mary Liebermann
Deputy
Corey Carlisle
Logistics Branch Dan Platzer
Deputy
Joan Sizelove
OEM - NBFD
Andy Cardiel EMC
NBCERT PROGRAM
MANAGER
Lisa Rubey
New Braunfels CERT
Foundation
Jay Hidalgo COO
NBCERT By the Numbers Est 2011 32,000+ Volunteer Hours
Emergency Events
EOC Operations
Harvey, Local Flooding,
Winter Storm
Damage Assessment
Wimberly & Local Flooding
events
Search Team Response
Bexar County Lost Person,
NBPD Evidence, Rebecca
Creek
Shelter Operations
Local events & Point to
Point events
.
Public Service Events
First Aid
Disaster Preparedness outreach
Exercise Events
Teen Outreach
100 Active Members
Trained over 500 persons
Wimberly, TX Damage
Assessment May 2015
Public
Events
Training
Watchtower
activates for all
events
Why talk about
structure
before
Watchtower
Without a defined structure you won’t have a good
disaster response or watchtower program.
All Along the Watchtower
Defining
01Developing
02Engaging
03Activating
04
Watchtower: A tower that is used by a person who guards or watches a place…an elevated observation point
SO WHAT IS IT in NBCERT and to YOU
An INTEL strategy
Engaging volunteers by monitoring from home or on site
Real time data
In support of the EOC, an Event or Operation.
Defining YOUR Watchtower
Need for Watchtower
Team support the plan
What INTEL
When will you provide Watchtower
Developing
YOUR
Watchtower
Program
WHO
Define Customer
Your Team Stakeholders
What
Can you help Customer
NeedsIntel
Support
When
Will you help Customer
Where
Home/Location
How
Methods
Engaging VolunteersEquals
Retaining CERT Volunteers
Volunteer options
Have a job for everyone
Learn their interests
Volunteers given diverse avenues of training and response are more engaged
Watchtower Fosters Ownership
Diversetraining avenues
& response
Maximizing
Interests
Training GoalsEncouragesIndependent
Study
Families Volunteering
Together
All InclusiveVolunteerOptions
Supporting your Stakeholders
Documents Process
Actionable Intel
Aids in decision making
Provides INTEL requested
Activating YOUR
Watchtower
Deploying Watchtower
How Deploy
Requested or self
activate
Do you deploy
when team does
Equipment needs
Reporting Watchtower
What Intel needed
Who receives
reports
What standard
sites
Example Standard sites
Weather
https://www.weather.gov/ewx/
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.as
px https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epac
https://texasstormchasers.com/radar/
https://www.iweathernet.com/lightning/latest-lightning-strikes-on-google-maps
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=KBAZ&num=48&banner=gmap&raw=0&w =325.
Traffic
https://drivetexas.org/#/7/32.340/-99.500?future=false
http://newbraunfels.maps.arcgis.com/apps/SimpleViewer/index.html?appid=1e68f804626d4eb59de03 813a0b92170
http://its.txdot.gov/ITS_WEB/FrontEnd/default.html?r=SAT&p=San%20Antonio&t=cctv
Google: Comal County Road Conditions
Power Outageshttp://outages.nbutexas.com:8080/ http://outages.gvec.org/ https://outages.pec.coop/dmsoutagemap/default.html http://outagemap.cpsenergy.com/CPSStaticMapsEXT/CPSStaticMapV2_EXT.html
Examples Social Media Sites
Nextdoor
SnapChat -
https://onemilliontweetmap.com/?center=
29.707474822310246,-
98.11902523040773&zoom=15&search=&ti
meStep=0&timeSelector=0&hashtag1=&has
htag2=
&hashtagBattle=0&timeRange=0&timeRang
e=25&heatmap=0&sun=0&cluster=1 -
https://getlatlong.net/ -
TWEETDECK
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=ne
ar%3A%2231.11765528473561,-
100.1123046875%22%20within%3A194.18mi
HOW TO USE TWEETDECK
There are 3 main components to using tweetdeck.
Make sure that you are in the actual tweetdeck (site
and not just on your normal twitter page.
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
Geocoding the specific radius around address that you
want to monitor.
https://getlatlong.net/
One million tweet map.
https://onemilliontweetmap.com/?center=29.72666953
3022612,-
98.11546325683595&zoom=13&search=&timeStep=0&ti
meSelector=0&hashtag1=&hashta
g2=&hashtagBattle=0&timeRange=0&timeRange=25&hea
tmap=0&sun=0&cluster=1
Example of intel report WATCHTOWER REPORT FORMAT
Send this format as email to [email protected] –[email protected], [email protected] –[email protected]
Report made by_Lisa Rubey_______________________ Date_4/7/19_______Time 0700
Report number:__Initial #1_________Number:__(order after 1)__________ Final end of shift:_YES / NO
Weather Report: USE: National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio or NWS CHAT (if you have it)
NWS Updates: Give the latest NWS Area Forecast Discussion Summary: Severe thunderstorm warning until 0745 High winds gust to 60mph, hail
Weather: Use this link: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=KBAZ&num=48&banner=gmap&raw=0&w=325
Date____4/7/19____Time___0700____Temp_____69__________Wind Direction/Speed______S 7mph__
Weather:_Hvy Rain Thunder Shwr, Mist_1hour Precip__0.28_3hour Precip_NA_6hour Precip_0.28
River Gauges:
Link: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=ewx
4/7/19 0400 to 0600 reported levels Initial report on rivers for start point
SRGT2 – Guadalupe near Spring Branch Feet _____4.2 ft____Flow_____1200CFS_ EXAMPLE
SMCT2 – Guadalupe river @ Canyon Lake Feet___908.98 ft___________Flow_____NA________
STLT2 – Guadalupe river @ Sattler Feet___5.03__FT_________Flow___234CFS__________
GRTT2 – Guadalupe river @ 3rd crossing Feet___4.42 Ft__________Flow____NA_________
NBRT2 – Gualdaupe river above comal Feet___2.39 _ft_________Flow_____NA________
NBCT2 – Comal river @ New BraunfelsFeet___4.38__ft_________Flow_____________
GBCt2 – Guadalupe river below comal Feet____9.89 Ft__________Flow_____________
NBDT2 – Dry Comal @ 337 Feet_____5.76 ft_________Flow_____________
Any Additional Notes that are needed:
Social media not monitored currently
Comments:
Wanted an initial river report as storm tracking into the area currently for a base line.
Reports to be emailed: Initial start of shift the top of hour - every 2 hours after initial unless conditions warrant sooner updates. Then go to every hour or follow new update instructions.
WATCHTOWER IN ACTION
Harvey
01Watchtower
02Summary
03
Hurricane Harvey
Watchtower Monitoring
NBCERT Intel Support Service
Members worked from home
Started Watchtower when storm
named TS1 AUG 21,2017
Sit-reps 2x daily report to
coincide with
NOAA Hurricane Hunter
flights
Start asking for members to
take assignments to monitor
Initiated during preplanning
sessions
Watchtower SupportNBCERT Members monitored from home and reported to
the EOC in hourly sit reps
Real time Traffic on Evacuation routes
River Hydrology – Comal County rivers
Power Outages in our local area and in Victoria
TX area (for damages around the eye as it pushed
inland)
Social Media
4 Members were on shifts 24/7 during entire EOC
operations providing intel
Summary- Harvey City of New Braunfels takes a proactive approach
to Emergency Management
Watchtower an engaging way to utilize NBCERT Volunteers
If event continued need for more Watchtower trained NBCERT personnel
NBCERT had 35 volunteers put in 464 hours in 2 days, that could be used for matching PA funds.
58 hours – Watchtower EOC Support
35 hours – Watchtower Pre-Support
Remaining hours - Shelter, EOC and Call Center
Watchtower at Wurstfest
New Braunfels largest annual
event
10 day event – large crowds
EOC activated through out the
event
Supporting Festival Operation
Watchtower monitors
Social media
Weather
Road traffic
Other
Watchtower
uses
Local festivals & events
Pre-planning
Training & exercises
You name it
Watchtower
Flexible Effective Intel Program
Volunteer Friendly
Work from home
Work at event
Easy to manage
QUESTIONS
Andy Cardiel
City of New Braunfels Emergency Manager
550 Landa St
New Braunfels, Texas 78130
830-221-4270
Lisa Rubey
NBCERT Program Manger
550 Landa St
New Braunfels, TX 78130
830-221-4223
Contact Information
Thank you for your time
today. We appreciate it.