Disaster Katrina

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Disaster Katrina

• The
• Michigan
• Response

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Katrina

• On August 29th the States of Louisiana,
  Mississippi and Alabama were hit by a category 4
  hurricane
• Largest hit in United States history
• 140 mph winds
• Rainfall at 1 inch per hour-up to 15 inchs
• 1.7 million customers without power
• Secondary disaster occurred when flooding began
  and levee broke causing mass flooding and damage

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Gulf Map

• Hurricane path through Gulf States

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USA Map

• Hurricane tracking from Bahamas to Gulf States..

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What Government is doing

• Federal disaster declarations are covering 90,000
  square miles of affected areas.
• More than 75,800 response, rescue, recovery and
  law enforcement personnel are working around the
  clock to bring critical aid and support to the
  Gulf Coast region.
• National Response Plan mobilizes resources of the
  entire federal Gov't. to support response and
  recovery.
• 32,000 lives have been saved
• 35,000 evacuations have been made from New
  Orleans
• Commodities delivered to date include o 11.3
  million MREs, 18 million liters of water, 1.7
  million pounds of ice, More than 600 buses to
  transport evacuees
• 559 shelters with a population of 182,000. This
  number fluctuates daily.
• The U S Coast Guard saved 32,291 lives to date,
  more than 4 times the number of lives saved in
  all of 2004.
• The Amer. Red Cross, in coordination with the S.
  Baptists, are serving nearly 500,000 hot meals
  each day.
• 42,000 National Guard are on the ground in three
  states.
• 200 Border Patrol agents, 200 additional law
  enforcement officers from other Louisiana
  jurisdictions and 2,000 officers from neighboring
  states are assisting in restoring order in the
  streets of New Orleans.
• Nearly 500 U.S. Corps of Engineers civilians and
  soldiers are working on the New Orleans levee
  breach and coordinating the transport of ice and
  water.
• All patients and staff from the 11 top priority
  hospitals in the New Orleans area have been fully
  evacuated. Three other hospitals in the area are
  fully functioning with fuel and power and have no
  need to evacuate.

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Katrina vs. Kalamazoo

• Local Disaster ?
• or
• Local Mission ?

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Definitions

• Local Disaster Any happenings that cause great
  harm or damage
• Local Mission A sending out or being sent out
  to perform a special duty
• Bottom line We work with what we have

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Backwards or Forwards

• Normal Forward Process of Occurrence
• A few additional steps occurs.
• Backwards Process of Occurrence

Local Disaster Occurs.
First Responders Arrive and Assess Incident.
EOC Opened, Request Mutual Aid from State
A Presidential declaration is Declared
State / Governor Declare State of Disaster
FEMA / States request help to handle
State manages the disaster
Local EM assist in gearing up a response
Presidential Declaration is approved
Disaster occurs in an other state
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Notification

• Katrina State Police District Coordinator
  contacts local EM Director. State has been
  handling this already for a few days before
• we were notified
• Normally The EM Director is contacted by our
  Dispatch Center and told of the incident after
  the first responders give size-up report
• Locally we call up our staff / teams depending
  what is needed

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Operations

• We knew our mission and prepared for that
  assignment. Handled as a regional response since
  it was occurring in multiple jurisdictions
• The up and down of the operation came from so
  much false information required set-up occurred
  almost each day until the fourth day (Monday 9/5)
• Our mission was to greet, treat, secure and house
  the evacuees

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Evacuee Assistance Step 1

• Airport
• Welcomed
• 1st Medical screening
• Any Medical Issues Hospitals
• Limited Medical Issues Fort Custer
  
• Transported to Fort Custer

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Arrival in Michigan

• Patient arrival of third aircraft into W.K.
  Kellogg Airport
• First responders waiting to evaluate

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Initial Survey

• First Aircraft arrival had several people with
  handicaps and photo shows a Doctor, Nurse and
  Volunteer evaluating a patient
• Anyone showing any health issues was immediately
  sent to one of the trauma centers

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Evacuee Assistance Step 2

• Fort Custer
• Armory
• Welcome package
• Photo ID
• Base Instructions
• Housing
• 2nd Medical Screening
• Housing Assignments

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Secondary Survey

• Decon tent used as a portable evaluation center
  at Fort Custer
• County owns two of these complete systems

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Quick Overview

• 9/2 Friday 1st awareness of operations
• 9/3 Saturday Up / down each day based on
  information received from FEMA
• 9/5 Monday Arrival of 289 Evacuees
• 9/6 Tuesday Up / down each day based on
  information received from FEMA
• 9/9 Friday Arrival of 40 Evacuees
• 9/15 Thursday Only 120 people left
• Current Reducing staffing as evacuees have been
  placed.
• 9/18 Sunday 77 evacuees remaining

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Local Assets

• Workers
• Emergency Management Kalamazoo EMD, Calhoun EMD
  and Battle Creek City EMD
• Law Enforcement Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff, Calhoun
  Sheriff, Battle Creek City, and Michigan State
  Police.
• Medical 5th District Medical Coalition
• Human Services Regional Counties and State
• Mental Health Services Regional Counties and
  State

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Local Assets Part 2

• Equipment
• Fort Custer Base, and Buildings
• Medical Supplies, and Ambulances
• Emergency management Decon Units, Communication
  equipment
• Human Services Supplies
• Fire Fire trucks
• Complete list is unknown unit re-imbursement is
  completed.

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Cost

• Reimbursement On 9/21 Emergency management will
  be receiving their marching orders from the state
  on how, who and what is going to be re-reimbursed
• Presidential declaration meaning 100

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Final Report

• It will be some time before we have a final
  report on Michigans response
• Locally we say it went great and as we have
  trained region wide
• We have learned a few lessons and are in the
  process of reviewing our plans and our regional
  response

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Closing

• Questions?
• Contact
• Lt. Paul R. Baker, Director
• Kalamazoo County Emergency Management
• Office 269-383-8712
• Email prbake_at_kalcounty.com
• Presentation on website www.kalamazooemergencyma
  nagement.org