# Preparing Texas Today... Orientation to State Emergency Preparedness & Response

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges **Governor’s Division of Emergency Management Office of the Governor** 

# Threats to Texas Emergency Management of Texas Texas Rapid Response & Recovery - “Single Focus” Summary / Discussion Agenda

#  Hurricane  Tornado  Flood/Flash Flood  Winter Storm  Power Outage  Water Shortage  Wildfire  Mass Fatality  HazMat or Chemical  Terrorist Act  Hostage/Stand - off  Earthquake  Oil Spill  Economic Loss  Communications  Urban Fire  Building Collapse  Utility Outages  Drought  Disease/Human/Animal  Rail/Pipeline  Others? Threats to Texas

# Preparing Texas Today... 

# How Do We Prepare Texas ?

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges

# To develop a fully synchronized preparedness program that has a “Single Focus” . And “Unity of Effort” that fully supports the Governor’s Strategic Plan 2005 - 2010. Preparedness is defined as all programs that provide funding to Texas for Planning, Organization, Training, Exercises and Equipment. Total Focused Effort:  

# Near / Mid / Long Term  

# Economy and Efficiency of Resources  

# Doctrinal Adherence  

# Joint Integration of Local, State, Federal and Private Capabilities and Capacities. 

# Purpose

# Combine the efforts of the State Administrative Agency (SAA), ODP, and SAA CDC.  

# Joint Language Grant Guidance  

# Joint Program Execution  

# Joint Publication of Guidance Develop Regional Response Plans  

# Focused on direction and control, Regional Unified Command, Interoperable Communications and Mutual Aid  

# Focused on all Capabilities and Capacities of the Region 

# “HOW”

# Develop five year preparedness plan:  

# Quarterly Scheduling Workshops  

# Include all Major Players:  COG’s  State Agencies  Federal Agencies  Transit Authorities  Ports  UASICs  Hospitals  MMRS  Schools (ISD)  VOAD  Mass Care 

# “HOW” continued

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

# Plan: Enhance operational plans, procedures, and implementing documents that support Prevention, Protection, Response and Recovery. 

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

# Organize: Enhance organizations which are structured to most efficiently and effectively Prevent, Protect Respond and Recover. 

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

# Equip: Identify necessary equipment and technological resources required. Decide - Order - Ship - Receive - Use 

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

# Train: Develop and deliver highly focused training to private, local, state and federal responders in an expedited and integrated effort . 

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

# Exercise: Develop and conduct exercises that FOCUS ON existing plans and procedures for the Prevention, Protection, Response and Recovery from of a terrorism incident involving a WMD with the outcome of enhancing those plans and procedures and understanding how organizations contribute to the prevention of the incident **.** 

# State of Texas Preparedness Objectives

## Texas Homeland Security Strategic

Plan State of Texas Emergency Management Plan

Rick Perry, Governor


# City County 

# LEVELS OF PLANNING

Mayor County Judge 

# Regional

# • Provides Governor’s Intent

– Leadership

– Organization

• Establishes Three Attainable Goals

– Prevent terrorist attack within Texas.

– Protect by reducing vulnerability to Terrorism

– Prepare to respond and recover

• Defines Four Critical Task

– Intelligence and Warning

– Protecting Critical Infrastructure

– Emergency Preparedness and Response

– Border Security Texas Homeland

Security Strategic Plan Part I Rick Perry 

# Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan (Part I) The Vision

# Prepare Pre - deployment
• Resources
• Personnel Pre - establishment
• ICPs
• JFO Evacuation and

protective
• sheltering
• mass care Respond Immediate Mass Care
• Housing
• food & water Search and Rescue Evacuation Emergency medical

services Decontamination Emergency restoration

of critical services Recover Repair/replacement
• damaged public facilities Debris cleanup &

removal Temporary housing Restoration of public

services Crisis counseling Economic Renewal Prevent Implement Countermeasures
• Infrastructure Protection Conduct tactical operations
• interdict
• disrupt Conduct Surveillance
• immunizations
• quarantine
• biological threats Use Proven Technologies
• TDex
• Livescan 

# Prevent - Prepare - Respond - Recover Prevent Prepare Respond Recover

# Texas Homeland Security Strategic

Plan State of Texas

Emergency Management Plan

Part II Rick Perry 

# Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan (Part II) State of Texas Emergency Management Plan

• The State Operational Plan

• Addresses all phases of emergency management operations, response &recovery

• Addresses all hazards

• Plans for comprehensive use of resources

• Uses a functional approach

• Provides for coordinated information management

• Provides for graduated problem solving

• Plans for catastrophic disaster operations

# • Adjutant General’s Dept.
• American Red Cross
• Department of Information Resources
• General Land Office
• Governor’s Division of Emergency Management
• Office of Rural Community Affairs
• Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Railroad Commission of Texas
• Salvation Army
• State Auditor’s Office
• State Comptroller of Public Accounts
• TX Animal Health Commission
• TX Attorney General’s Office
• TX Building and Procurement

Commission
• TX Commission on Environmental

Quality • TX Commission on Fire Protection
• TX Dept. of Agriculture
• TX Dept. of Criminal Justice
• TX Dept. of Housing and Community

Affairs
• TX Dept. of Insurance
• TX Dept. of Public Safety
• TX Dept. of State Health Services
• TX Dept. of Transportation
• TX Education Agency
• TX Engineering Extension Service
• Texas Forest Service
• TX Health and Human Services Commission
• TX Dept. of Family & Protective Services
• TX Parks and Wildlife Dept.
• TX Dept. of Assistive and Rehabilitation Services
• TX Workforce Commission 

# Governor’s Emergency Management Council

# • Warning
• Security
• Law Enforcement
• Communications
• Search & Rescue
• Evacuation
• Health & Medical
• Human Services • Shelter & Mass Care
• Engineering Services
• Air Operations
• Crisis Counseling
• Fire Suppression
• Transportation
• Food & Water
• Direction & Control Types of State Assistance & ResponseDallam Lipscomb
Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoakum Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher
Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves Loving Winkler Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity

Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan Falls Shelby Nacogdoches San Augustine

Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim Hogg Smith Henderson

Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina Newton

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin
Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford Stephens

Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher

Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca
Jackson Wharton Colorado

Austin
Fort Bend Brazoria

Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes

Caldwell Guadalupe Gonzales

DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell



# Sub 2B 5B

5A

4A 4B

Sub 4A Sub 4B 6B

3B

8B 3A

8A Sub 2C 6A Sub 5A Sub 1A 1A
1B

6C

2C
2A 2B

8B 

# Texas Disaster DistrictsDallam Lipscomb
Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoaku Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher
Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves Loving Winkler Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity

Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan Falls Shelby Nacogdoches San Augustine

Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim Hogg Smith Henderson

Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina Newton

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin
Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford Stephens

Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher

Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca
Jackson Wharton Colorado

Austin
Fort Bend Brazoria

Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes

Caldwell Guadalupe Gonzales

DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell 

# Regional Liaison Officer (RLO) Areas of Responsibility

As of 2/20/07 5B

5A

4B

4A 6B 1B

2B

3A

8A 3B 1A

2C 6A

2A 6C Sub 5A Sub 1A

Sub 4B

8B Del Rio



# 8B Laredo 

# Sub 4A Sub 2B

Sub 2C Sub 2A Sub 5B

3C

# Texas Regional Response Plan Regional

# • Local community “owns” the incident - first 12 - 24 hours are critical to success

• Plan on regional support for first 48 - 72 hrs

• Factor in “real world” response timelines

• Define resource “needs”

• Know resource availability

• Know “how” to request help 

# Response Realities

# • Applies to all jurisdictions located within the geographic region defined by the Councils of Government (COG)

• Establishes operational concepts, identifies tasks and lists responsibilities required to carry out a regional response to catastrophic incident

• Provides framework for overwhelming regional response of critical resources to an area within the region affected by a catastrophic event or disaster situation 

# Texas Regional Response Plan

# Councils of Government Areas

# • Focus is on all hazard missions: Prevent, Prepare, Respond, Recover

• Leverages region’s ability to provide overwhelming response to a catastrophic incident

• Does not replace existing local emergency plans

• Incorporates existing Mutual Aid Agreements with other cities/counties within or outside the region

• Resource oriented

– equipment, supplies, personnel, and special areas such as power, evacuation, special needs, continuity of government 

# Texas Regional Response Plan

# • Establishes a Regional Planning Working Group (RPWG) to develop, refine, manage and guide regional response

• Establishes a Regional Unified Command (RUC) to manage resources identified and organized for mutual support of jurisdictions within region [changing to Multi - Agency Coordination Center (MACC)]

• Includes provisions for flexibility of methods, operations, and actions needed to facilitate efforts of regional and local governments in accomplishing emergency management objectives 

# Texas Regional Response Plan

# • Manages regional resources (equipment, personnel, facilities, special needs) in support of incident

• Maintains regional strategic view of incident

• Establishes priorities for employment of regional resources

• Provides “one - stop shopping” for EOCs

• Works closely with DDC for resource identification and commitment, insuring timely response 

# RUC [MACC] Functions

# City / County EOC Dallam Lipscomb
Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoakum Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King

Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman

Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher

Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves

Loving Winkler

Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy

Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan

Falls Shelby Nacogdoches

San Augustine
Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim

Hogg Smith Henderson Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin

Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford

Stephens Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco

Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca

Jackson Wharton Colorado Austin
Fort Bend

Brazoria Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes Caldwell Guadalupe

Gonzales DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell 5B

5A

4A 4B

Sub 4A 4A Sub 4B 6B

3B

Sub 8A 3A

8A Sub 2C 6A Sub 5A Sub 1A 1A
1B

6C

2C
2A 2B

Sub 8A Dallam Lipscomb

Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoakum Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King

Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman

Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher

Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves

Loving Winkler

Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy

Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan

Falls Shelby Nacogdoches

San Augustine
Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim

Hogg Smith Henderson Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin

Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford

Stephens Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco

Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca

Jackson Wharton Colorado Austin
Fort Bend

Brazoria Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes Caldwell Guadalupe

Gonzales DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell 5B

5A

4A 4B

Sub 4A 4A Sub 4B 6B

3B

Sub 8A 3A

8A Sub 2C 6A Sub 5A Sub 1A 1A
1B

6C

2C
2A 2B

Sub 8A 

# Disaster District Committee

Governor Federal Government Incident Command Post

Governor’s SOC 

# Requesting Assistance - Current

# City / County EOC

Dallam Lipscomb
Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoakum Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King

Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman

Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher

Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves

Loving Winkler

Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy

Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan

Falls Shelby Nacogdoches

San Augustine
Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim

Hogg Smith Henderson Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin

Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford

Stephens Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco

Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca

Jackson Wharton Colorado Austin
Fort Bend

Brazoria Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes Caldwell Guadalupe

Gonzales DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell 5B

5A

4A 4B

Sub 4A 4A Sub 4B 6B

3B

Sub 8A 3A

8A Sub 2C 6A Sub 5A Sub 1A 1A
1B

6C

2C
2A 2B

Sub 8A Dallam Lipscomb

Moore Hemphill
Potter Gray

Parmer

Cochran
Yoakum Hall
Hale Motley

Lubbock Dickens

Andrews King

Terry Sherman Hansford Ochiltree

Hutchinson Wheeler
Randall Armstrong Donley
Castro Briscoe Childress
Cottle Hardeman

Foard Hartley Roberts
Oldham Carson
Deaf Smith Collingsworth

Bailey Swisher

Lamb Floyd Hockley Crosby

Gaines Knox Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall

El Paso Hudspeth Culberson

Jeff Davis Reeves

Loving Winkler

Ward Ector Dawson
Martin

Zavala Uvalde Kinney Edwards Val Verde Presidio Brewster

McMullen La Salle Dimmit

Jim Wells Webb

Brooks Kenedy

Starr Hidalgo Willacy Cameron Bowie Cass Camp TitusFranklinMorris Rains Marion Kaufman Harrison Panola Gregg Rusk

Bell Williamson Milam Sabine Trinity Upshur Wood Van Zandt
Navarro Hill Cherokee Freestone McLennan

Falls Shelby Nacogdoches

San Augustine
Jasper

Jefferson Tyler Walker Polk Robertson Madison Brazos Hardin San Jacinto Grimes Liberty Chambers Montgomery Burleson Lee Ellis

Goliad Bee Live Oak Maverick Refugio

Nueces San Patricio Kleberg Duval

Zapata Jim

Hogg Smith Henderson Anderson

Leon Limestone

Travis Hays Comal Houston Angelina

Orange Cooke Grayson Fannin

Collin Denton Hunt Lamar Delta Hopkins
Dallas Red River

Rockwall

Nolan Baylor

Jones Shackelford

Stephens Archer Young

Taylor Fisher Haskell Throckmorton

Callahan Eastland Howard Borden Parker

Erath Palo Pinto Montague Clay Wichita Wilbarger

Wise Jack

Upton Brown Coleman Runnels Coke Sterling Glasscock Midland Crane

Menard McCulloch Concho

Sutton Schleicher Tom Green

Crockett Pecos Irion Reagan Comanche Hood
Bosque Somervell

Hamilton

Kimble Mason Mills San Saba

Blanco

Burnet Lampasas Johnson

Gillespie Terrell Llano Coryell Tarrant

Washington Fayette

Lavaca

Jackson Wharton Colorado Austin
Fort Bend

Brazoria Harris Bastrop

Matagorda Kerr Real
Bexar Wilson Karnes Caldwell Guadalupe

Gonzales DeWitt Waller

Calhoun Victoria Kendall

Atascosa Frio Medina Bandera Galveston

Aransas Scurry
Mitchell 5B

5A

4A 4B

Sub 4A 4A Sub 4B 6B

3B

Sub 8A 3A

8A Sub 2C 6A Sub 5A Sub 1A 1A
1B

6C

2C
2A 2B

Sub 8A 

# Disaster District Committee Governor Federal Government Regional RUC /MACC Incident Command Post

Governor’s SOC 

# Requesting Assistance - New

# • Obtain Stakeholder Agreement

• Identify Regional Planning Working Group (RPWG)

• NERRTC provides dedicated planner

• RPWG and NERRTC draft plan

• RPWG and Elected Officials review and approve

• Timeline: All plans due by 2006 

# How Do We Get There...

# • Identification of RPWG members

– the right people

• Resources (communications, personnel) needed to support RUC

• Location of RUC/MACC

– fixed or mobile?

• Training of RUC/MACC personnel

• Regional coordination and cooperation

• Timeline for completion 

# Issues

# Preparing Texas Today...

**Governor’s Division of Emergency Management** 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenge 

# State Operations Center (SOC)

#  Texas Fusion Center  Staffed 24 hours per day  Routine / emergency events monitored  State Council/Agency contacts maintained  Central crisis management / coordination accomplished State Operations Center (SOC)

# Local Law Enforcement

Governor’s Division of Emergency Management Statewide Amber Alert Network Emergency Management Officials National Weather Service Critical Infrastructure

Protection Council Agencies

Radio and TV Stations

County Judge and Mayors Emergency Alert System Department of Homeland Security

Federal Bureau of Investigation State Leadership and Legislature Health Alert Network Emergency Response Network

Homeland Security Information Network 

# State SOC

# Level I: Emergency Conditions AHS Level: Red (Severe Risk of Attack) Level II: Escalated Response Conditions AHS Level: Orange (High Risk of Attack) Level III: Increased Readiness Conditions AHS Level: Yellow (Significant Risk of Attack) Blue (General Risk of Attack) Level IV: Normal Conditions AHS Level: Green (Low Risk of Attack) 

# Levels of Activation

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges 

# TEXAS RESPONDS....... “A Single Focus” State Capabilities

# • Coordination Conference Calls

• VTC with data transmitting capability to 27 sites around the state

• State Incident Management Team (IMT)

• State Emergency Response Team (SERT)

• Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU)

• Texas National Guard Response Task Force

• Texas Task Force One (Search & Rescue)

• Texas Joint Air - Ground Coordination Team 

# Agenda

# • Coordination Conference Calls

• Video Teleconferences

• State Incident Management Teams (IMT)

• Immediate Mass Care Strike Teams

• Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU)

• Texas National Guard Response Task Force

• Texas Task Force One (Search & Rescue)

• Texas Joint Air - Ground Coordination Team

• 6 th 

# Civil Support Team

• Texas Parks & Wildlife Special Boat Crews 

# Response & Recovery Capabilities

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges 

# State Incident Management Team (IMT)

# • Developed after 9/11(State Catastrophic Team)

• It’s purpose.......To provide immediate on - site incident management support in the areas of operations, planning, logistics, and finance

• Validated during Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster in February 2003

• Highly trained, highly skilled, highly motivated group of professionals Background

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges 

# Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU)

# • Consists of functional teams

• Uses both State & Regional staffs

• RAU uses TXARNG/TFS Air/Ground assets to collect and report information Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU)

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges 

# Texas Army National Guard Response Task Force

• Aviation
• EOC/Communication Support
• Evacuation Support
• Traffic Control Support
• Search and Rescue (ground)
• Emergency Debris Removal

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges 

# Texas Task Force One (TTF - 1) Search and Rescue

# Preparing Texas Today...

A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges TTF - 1 Search and Rescue Capabilities:

• Urban SAR • Flood Rescue • Swift Water Rescue • WMD Environment Capable

# Preparing Texas Today... 

# Texas Joint Air - Ground Coordination Team (TJAGCT)
A Texas Community Partnership 

# ...for Tomorrow’s Challenges

# • A Team composed of Local, State and Federal responders, with the mission of providing effective and rapid Search and Rescue during a catastrophic event

• Team has three components:

– Incident Command Team

– Air Coordination Team

– Ground Coordination Team Texas Joint Air Ground Coordination Team (TJAGCT)

# Discussion/Q&A