PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

KELLEN MCKINNEY, MS
DOUGLAS PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK
FOUR PHASES, MANY SYSTEMS

• Mitigation • Response
• Geographic Information System (GIS) • Emergency Operations Center Systems
• Raptor (EOC)
• OpsCenter
• Preparedness
• WebEOC
• Emergency Alert System (EAS)
• Social Media
• Table Top Exercises
• Disaster Resistant Communities Group • Recovery
• Social Media
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEM
You are
• Raptor– State tool HERE!
• Used for real-time assessment
• Used for planning and mitigation
• Weather

• Earthquakes

• Flooding

• Fire
PREPAREDNESS: EAS & EXERCISES

Emergency Alert System (EAS)

Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
PREPAREDNESS: EAS & EXERCISES

• Disaster Resistance Community Group

• Table Top Exercises (TTX)
• Homeland Security Exercise and
Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
• After Action Reports (AAR)
• Onyx System
• Online/Virtual
• Up to 200 groups and unlimited
participants
RESPONSE: WebEOC

WEB EOC
• Used by:
• City of Portland • FEMA Region X
• Multnomah County
• ODOT, Port of Portland, TriMet
• State of Washington
• Washington County • State of Idaho
• Columbia County
• Crisis information management system
• 211 Info
• Portland Public Schools • Provides instant situational awareness
• *Red Cross
RESPONSE: OpsCenter

• Used by Oregon Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

• Local jurisdictions
• Tracks of the status of incidents in Oregon
• Provides monitoring, alerting and reporting
• Resource requests
RECOVERY: SOCIAL MEDIA

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST)
• Harness the power of social media
ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Coordination, integration and planning

• Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)
• No “stove-piping”
• Interoperability
• Common operating picture

• Data identification and sharing

• System redundancies
• Reporting system
ROLE OF IT CONT.

• Communications and infrastructure

• Deployable communications
• Tracking assets
• Standardized formats

• Training, expertise and personnel tracking

• Better logistics

• Simulation and modeling (Jefferson, 2006)

• Better modeling (forecasting for storms, etc.)
Q&A