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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

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

13. Where do they go?

14. 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

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

16. 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.

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