San Bernardino County OES PRESENTS: Role of Local Government Agencies in Disaster Response, Relief and Resilience

LEGAL BASIS FOR SEMS Senate Bill 1841 Now in Law: Government Code § 8607 INTENT: To Improve Coordination of State & Local Emergency Response in California.

SEMS WAS DEVELOPED TO IMPROVE : Flow of information and resources Coordination between responding agencies Rapid mobilization, deployment and resource tracking

FIVE SEMS ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS: FIELD LEVEL LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL OPERATIONAL AREA LEVEL REGION LEVEL STATE LEVEL

FIELD LEVEL : The level where emergency response personnel and resources carry out TACTICAL missions, activities, and decisions in direct response to an INCIDENT.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL : Cities, Counties, & Special Districts Local governments MANAGE and COORDINATE the OVERALL emergency response and recovery activities in their jurisdictions

OPERATIONAL AREA LEVEL : County and ALL political sub-divisions Coordinates information, resources and priorities among all local governments Is the intermediate level between Region and Local Government

REGION LEVEL : Coordination between Operational Areas in each Mutual Aid Region Coordination between Operational Area and State Level Coordinates overall State Agency Support within the Region Southern Region Inland Coastal

Pre-Recovery HMP Hazards Flood Energy disruption Fire Earthquake Hazardous material emergency Flood Energy disruption Fire Food and agricultural emergency Landslide Civil unrest Dam and levee failure Pandemic and epidemic Severe weather Terrorist attack Tsunami Failure of critical infrastructure

Recovery Support Functions Community Planning and Capacity Building Economic Health and Social Services Housing Infrastructure Systems Natural and Cultural Resources

Planning and Capacity Building Promote government and business continuity Promote mitigation and reconstruction activities Re-establish parks, recreation centers, and entertainment for communities Reunite families and children Reunite household pets and other animals with their owners Support community services Support food, housing, and shelter Support mass fatality services Support public health, medical care, and mental/behavioral health services Support public safety and security of residents and workforce Support re-establishment of commerce

Short Term Recovery Essentials: Medical Food Water Shelter Family Reunification Mental Health Animal Care Volunteer (limited) Mass Fatality Mitigation

Where do they go?

Long Term Recovery Business / Economic Recovery Government and Business Continunitty Re-establish parks, recreation centers, and entertainment for communities Support public safety and security of residents and workforce Utilities restoration and monitoring Organizing churches, schools, voluntary organizations, local or State VOADs, faith-based organizations, local or municipal government, housing authorities, financial or budgetary departments, and healthcare providers

Long Term Recovery Establish workforce development projects Housing Supply routes Utility Infrastructure Coordinating Local, State and Federal Assistance Centers (LAC)

Community Resilience Continuity resilience must encompass business as well as information technology operations and recognize the importance of partnerships and interrelationships. It can be thought of as spanning six discrete layers: 1) Strategic planning and procedures; 2) Organization/community (people); 3) Core business processes; 4) Communications and information technology (systems/applications), 5) Essential/vital records (data/records management) 6) Facilities and security.

Research Needed Evacuation Trends Stand and Fight or Cut and Run Sustaining the Comeback