1. Georgia Department of Agriculture
All-Hazard Response: Utilizing the RRT in a
Foreign Animal Disease Response
Brandon Sauceda, MPH
RRT Coordinator
Georgia Department of Agriculture
February 2, 2016
11:00am

2. High Pathogenic Avian Influenza
21 states with AI—231 premises

3. Flyways

4. Georgia Poultry Statistics
$28 billion to the state economy
Largest segment of Georgia Agriculture: Poultry is 48% of ag economic sector (65%)
#1 in the U.S. & #7 in the world for broiler production

5. Foreign Animal Disease Response Requirements
Incident Management
Operations
Incident Command
Resource Management
Biosecurity
Surveillance & Epidemiology
Public Information
Cleaning and Disinfection
Disposal
Depopulation
Vaccination
Quarantine and Movement Control

6. Response preparations
Weekly HPAI planning meetings with state and federal staff
Validating participants for IMT: partnership with Georgia Forestry Commission
GEMA Executive Briefing: WebEOC dashboard created regarding HPAI
ESF 11 Support Agency Briefing
Partnership with industry: “All in, All Gone” media campaign
Just as the integrated food safety system says. A true multi-agency and integrated team is necessary. Noted: many of the same partners from the RRT, and those that are new or from different programs of an agency we already had contacts from RRT to make those connections.

7. Public Information & Risk Communication
Relevant, Timely, Accurate
The first step in prevention
Virtual Joint Information Center established
GDA HPAI Hotline & Call-Center established
Biosecurity messaging to public & industry
Messaging to partners and officials
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Same as in food safety, must communicate risk and preventive measures.
This is where it begins to cross over in the other standards as well.

8. PIO/Risk Communications
JIC Established: PIO Manual, FAQ, Biosecurity Pamphlet: 5 languages
Call Center Preparations: Hotline developed & Call Center Training
Chicken is safe
to eat!!!
Website
Economic message as well. Be mindful of a public health vs economic decision making. The world we live in we must be mindful of all of our surroundings and unfortunately sometimes includes politics.

9. Excellent way to get your point across
Excellent way to get your point across. Lesson learned for food safety and public health communication. Example is CDC using the zombie outbreak for emergency prepardness.

11. 4 branches
7 groups
30+ strike teams / task forces with 1-6 people each + resources

12. Lessons Learned Using ICS Planning P E I-Suite Software
Pre-Fill as much as possible!
Planning P
Timeline
ICS 230 (Daily Meeting Schedule)
Meeting Agendas

13. Our RRT has been trained in ICS and have completed the all-hazards IMT training, which puts us on the path to become a typed federal resource.

14. E I-Suite Uses Auto Generates ICS Forms and IAP
202 Objectives
203 Assignment List
204 Group Assignments
205 Comm Plan
206 Med Plan
Attach More
Electronic Check-in & Checkout Process
ICS 211 & 221
Library of Resources
Resource Management
Travel Requests (for demob)
Checkout plan & form
E is the enterprise version.

15. Lessons Learned Managing a Large Incident
Resources
Remote Check-In & Check-Out
Maintaining Situational Awareness
SitRep
ICS 214s
We can create a good plan but if we cant execute it, manage our resources, and gather information to improve it; the plan will fail

16. Resource Needs
Each house in MN our team worked required about 10,000 gallons of water or a large tanker truck. Foam, PPE (and trained), food, biosecurity equip, etc. Personel!!!

18. How do we check many people in
How do we check many people in? Applies to food emergencies when we may be out in different places (ie a natural disaster). Created a plan for mobile check-in.

21. Final Thoughts
Plans, Finance/Admin, Logs all need PUSH PACKS to perform response activities, just as vital as Ops Push Packs/Go Kits
Documentation and Accountability begins Day 1!
No Cost Contracts: Nothing is free. Get it in writing!
Cost Spreadsheet for ALL equipment
Documentation/accountability – especially for us in public health. Document everything who you talked to during that inspection what information you learned. It helps cover you.

22. Thank You Brandon Sauceda, MPH RRT Coordinator
Georgia Department of Agriculture