2012/13 Pre Season Briefings

SCC Version 2.0 - September 2012

Opening Message

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2011/12 Fire Season Review

Significant rainfall throughout 2011 contributed to the potential for an elevated grassfire risk- the same is expected for 2012/13 Total Fire Bans were declared in parts of the state on 9 days (3 of these were revoked) Significant Incidents
NuPlex Industries chemical incident (Wangaratta): 19 December 2011 Port of Portland Hazmat Incident: 18 February 2012 Floods (North East and Gippsland): March 2012

2011/12 Post Season Review Report

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Bureau of Meteorology Outlook

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Seasonal Outlook
Seasonal Outlook
Spring outlook available on the BoM website Drier and warmer than normal season expected Summer outlook issued by BoM in November Refer to BoM website and FireWeb for latest information prior to and during Fire Danger Period.

Bushfire CRC Fire Note - Southern Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2012-13
Available on the Bushfire CRC website Southern Australia is likely to have normal or above normal fire activity during the 2012-13 fire season.

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FireWeb
Weather Section

Register

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Command and Control Arrangements

Major changes Preparedness (seasonal) and Readiness (short term) arrangements separated and clarified

The arrangements are generic and the arrangements of individual agencies are not included (e.g. role of Duty Officers)
State and Regional Control Teams now include the Recovery Coordinator/Manager and the SES Commander Emergency Management Teams at each tier (incident, regional and state) specifically include the Health Commander.

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Standard Operating Procedures

Revised Joint SOPs:
J2.03 IMT Readiness Arrangements J3.01 Determining the Control Agency J3.08 Appointment of Incident Controllers J4.01 Incident Warnings and Advice

Revised FSC SOP 02/2012- Reporting of Significant fires/emergencies to Fire Services Commissioner

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Justin Kibell FSC/SCC

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SCC Changes
New Management 1st July 2012 - SCC management transition to the Fire Services Commissioner Key drivers for change Consistent structures in room between fire, SES and DOT SEMD Develop and share good practice within Victoria and Nationally Closer alignment with future direction of AIIMS 4.0 & VICPOL ICCS Better support to decision makers and key stakeholders (SEMT, Regional Control) Critical information flow, situational awareness and information gathering State Controllers (Fire, SES, DOT), and agency Chief Officers endorsement
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SCC Changes
New structures and functions SCC to embrace an Intelligence culture creation of new Intelligence Function and Strategic Risk and Consequence Function
Consolidate SCC products, improve briefings, daily battle rhythm Refocus units such as Situation and Planning more operational focus Mapping catalogue, intelligence collection matrix / decision support tools

Implementation from 1st November 2012 Will be embedded into training and exercises, scenario test
Working groups forming e.g. Social Media Monitoring

SCC layout and refit to support drivers for change

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New SCC Readiness / Activation Levels

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SCC Refurbishment

Will occur between 19th October 2012 and 20th November 2012
During this time SCC will operate from the redundancy site at CFA HQ Burwood. The refurbishment will see some units in the room move to improve information flow and their reporting arrangements change. AV / Displays will be upgraded to improve information / situational awareness in the room. Desk and chairs will be upgraded to address OH&S concerns Review of security arrangements and access will be undertaken including process of sign in at reception.

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SCC Preparedness Levels

Functional Unit Training is in October/November, you should nominate and book via your agency representative, details on the SCC extranet
http://www.scc.vic.gov.au/calender.html

On the 26th November 2012 there will be a full activation fire exercise in the SCC Exercise Waller

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Peter Luckock FSC / SCC

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eMap
Replaces FireMap and EIMS Mapper on a common platform
Uses Australian All Hazard map symbols Includes Phoenix, Firescan and satellite hot spots Includes field data capture (offline) tools Live data feeds including road closures, weather, resource tracking and river heights

New map backdrop used (Mapscape)

High quality map printing

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State Resource Request System

Resources Unit members at Incident, Regional and State level can submit, action and track requests for additional resources during major incidents and planned burning. All Resources Unit personnel, as well as those involved in the dispatch of appliances, must complete an online training session to ensure that they are familiar with the system. For further information (including access) refer to page 46 in the Handbook

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Luke Heagerty - CFA

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Provision of Warnings to the Community

24/7 warnings support via the SCC (03) 9262 8779

Location based Emergency Alert- Telstra only for 2012/13

OSOM multilingual warnings
Greek Chinese Italian - Arabic - Vietnamese

CFA/RFS cross border messaging

Vulnerable persons register

Web based registers Available by Summer 2012 Accessible to Victoria Police

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Sirens
In May 2012 the State Government released a policy for the Use of Sirens for Brigade and Community Alerting Under the Policy, if a siren is activated, the sound will have one of the following meanings:
BRIGADE - A short, 90-second signal will alerting fire brigade members to attend emergency callouts. COMMUNITY - A prolonged, 5-minute signal will indicate an emergency in the local area and people should seek further information

A pilot will be undertaken at selected sites this summer (locations still being decided) The focus is to provide the ability for three levels of activation:
Automatically through OSOM or EA warnings platforms EAS paging system Manual activation

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Rory McKenzie - DSE

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Fire Behaviour Analysts (FBANS)

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Aircraft
State Fleet comprises 42 contracted aircraft
Includes three contracted Light Fixed Wing recce aircraft

Nominated Operational Bases (NOBs) selected based on matching

aircraft with risk

Aircraft will position to Fire Readiness Locations as needed based on forecast outlook and localised risk. For further information on Aircraft for this season please contact: Adam Lawson Manager State Aircraft Unit

(03) 9412 4888

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Fire Agency Access Through TMPs

White CFA Volunteer stickers are no longer available and replaced by CFA Member photo ID cards Bushfire Information Card has been reissued with no changes CFA-DSE Formal Identification Sheet has been re-issued with no changes Guidelines for the Operation of TMPs during bushfires has been re-issued with no changes

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Paul King - CFA

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Community Information Guides (CIGs)

Formerly known as Township Protection Plans Current TPPs remain valid for distribution Future guides and those available on the CFA website will be updated to CIGs Also available by calling VBIL

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Local Response Plan- Bushfire

Combines existing Bushfire Response Plans and Township Planning Factors into one document to reduce duplication. Developed by brigades with support from the local Group, CFA regions, other emergency services and the municipality

Contains local information to enhance initial bushfire or grassfire operational planning, preparedness and response
Located on the X drive (CFA ICC drive) and the Emergency Management Drive (R Drive) reference/documentation/region/Township Planning Factors.
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Community Fire Refuges

Community Fire Refuge pilot underway Three pilot sites at East Warburton, Millgrove and Ferny Creek (all in District 13, all using new structures on primary school campuses) Pilot to test policy, practices, procedures, building performance, operational issues, community engagement

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Steven Riley - FSC

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Additional Information
Victorian Fire Agency Bushfire Handbook- Edition 2

IMT Toolbox
FireWeb Agency Intranet sites

FSC website
SCC Extranet Pre Season Update

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Safety

The fireground is an OH&S workplace of the control agency- but safety is everybodys responsibility.
Actively manage safety. At large and level 3 incidents: Appoint a safety officer Establish the Medical Services Unit so that OHS incidents and reports are promptly addressed Specifically address safety in the Incident Action Plan and every briefing Watchout for unacceptable risk and put controls in place. Unacceptable risk may include: Crews working near areas of hazardous trees Using crews unfamiliar with local or general bushfire risks Long hours and tours of duty

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Safety @ SCC

Safety issues in SCC should be reported to the SCC Duty Manager

Issues can be lodged under SCC Extranet OH&S Section

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Designated Work Group State Control Centre OH&S Reporting and Monitoring
Manager State Control Centre
Nominated Management Representative

The day to day management of issues relating to OH&S in the SCC is coordinated by the Deputy Manager SCC. Duties include: Coordinating regular OH&S meetings Ensure appropriate structures are in place to support OH&S requirements When the SCC is activated (TIER 1-3), all OH&S issues identified with the SCC room and expansion areas are to be brought to the attention of the rostered SCCDM. It is the responsibility of the SCCDM to take the appropriate action to rectify or escalate to the SCC Deputy Manager and facilitate to ensure the completion of appropriate agency or departmental paperwork. If the issue is related to field operations then the SCCDM will consult and inform the rostered State OH&S Executive Advisor.

Deputy Manager State Control Centre

SCC OH&S Coordinator Deals with day to day OH&S issues associated with the SCC

SCC Duty Manager (SCCDM)

Deals with OH&S issues when activated

Designated Work Group

FSC, CFA, DSE, MFB, DoT, VicSES
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Further Information
A follow up survey will be emailed to you about 1 week after this briefing. This presentation will be available on the FSC website and the Emergency Management Drive (R drive). For further information, please contact:
CFA (Jane Schendzielorz j.schendzielorz@cfa.vic.gov.au) DSE (Gary White gary.white@dse.vic.gov.au) MFB (Mark Swiney mswiney@mfb.vic.gov.au) SCC (Cain Trist - cain.trist@firecommissioner.vic.gov.au) FSC (Tony Murphy tony.a.murphy@firecommissioner.vic.gov.au)

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Questions?