1. Alberta-A Province Prepared Alberta Emergency Management Agency- Provincial Services

2. Alberta-A Province Prepared Outline Concepts and Principles Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) Hazardous Materials-CBRNER Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) Joint Provincial Emergency Response capacity

3. Alberta-A Province Prepared Concepts and Principles There are clearly response requirements that outstrip the capacity of a single community or regional partnership to develop and/or deliver The Province has an essential role in ensuring this capacity exists and is available when needed

4. Alberta-A Province Prepared Concepts and Principles Many ways to deliver this-partnerships, agreements, direct service provision, etc. Must be collaborative approach There are other service delivery groups and agencies that must be linked to community response

5. Alberta-A Province Prepared Concepts and Principles Whatever is built must support and join up local response agencies to higher level skills and equipment to ensure mission success Must identify a clear role for the Province Must link or “join up” all aspects of the response including community, provincial and federal

6. Alberta-A Province Prepared GSAR Integrate GSAR community into the emergency management framework –Revise GoA Support Plan for SAR (1990) –Establish GSAR Steering Committee –Develop Working Groups

7. Alberta-A Province Prepared Agency Support to GSAR –Develop and Test Protocols and Policies for GSAR that harmonize with CERP, JPERT –Integrate a GSAR Database into the Emergency Management Decision Support System (ARRC) –Incorporate training needs assessments and stakeholder input to support GSAR training program

8. Alberta-A Province Prepared Hazardous Materials Includes CBRNER No Provincial strategy/policy that will ensure an effective deployment of resources

9. Alberta-A Province Prepared Hazardous Materials Focus has been on CBRNER but the real day to day risk is a major Haz Mat incident Capacity exists in varying degrees in communities across Alberta with no link to ensure response outside their jurisdictions We have communities with identified needs trying to establish capacities likely beyond their ability to sustain

10. Alberta-A Province Prepared Hazardous Materials No costing formula Needs to involve ASERT, EUB, etc Must link all levels of response-first response-community, industry, and provincial response We are pulling a working team together to evaluate the issue, assess the risk and develop recommendations to address it

11. Alberta-A Province Prepared Haz Mat Review Evaluate the current CBRNE response system in Alberta and identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen capacities. Develop recommendations for presentation to the Managing Director of AEMA for systemic improvements to include areas such as funding, service delivery, training, and clarification of the GoA role.

12. Alberta-A Province Prepared HUSAR Is much more than a building collapse capacity Offers up logistics and command support functions to a wide range of emergency and non-emergency activities Might even be looked at as a recruitment and retention tool Can be scaled to support large or smaller events

13. Alberta-A Province Prepared HUSAR Is a critical provincial response asset Is a center of excellence that can help improve the capacity of day to day routine responses across Alberta by engaging other response agencies in the system We have been observing other models to learn what the Provincial relationship to the capacity might look like

14. Alberta-A Province Prepared HUSAR Missing partner has been the province We are working with CFD, STARS and other new potential partners to develop this capacity and make it available to all Albertans

15. Alberta-A Province Prepared Post Incident Analysis New role and new ways Current methodologies and reporting systems don’t capture everything nor do they provide the information needed SIITeam

16. Alberta-A Province Prepared Post Incident Analysis Broader Base All Incident We are pulling together a working group to look at all aspects of this.

17. Alberta-A Province Prepared JPERC Joint Provincial Emergency Response Capacity A joined up response capacity addressing key response areas using existing response agencies, industry, GOA Ministries and others to ensure an effective, coordinated response to events in Alberta

18. Alberta-A Province Prepared JPERC A partnership Responding to events, emergency and non-emergent

19. Alberta-A Province Prepared JPERC Making effective use of key response capacities Joining up the Fire and Emergency Management System This is what we are building, with you for Albertans and our guests.

20. Alberta-A Province Prepared JPERC Supporting and enhancing community capacity –Flood response, –Wildfire response –DG-CBRNE –HUSAR –GSAR –????

21. Alberta-A Province Prepared Questions? Ernie.Polsom@gov.ab.ca http://www.aema.alberta.ca/