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Tropical Storm Ernesto

Tropical Storm Ernesto. Evening Briefing August 28, 2005. Silence All Phones and Pagers. Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out all phones. Thanks for your cooperation. Fire Medical Stress Severe Weather Parking. Safety Briefing. SEOC LEVEL 1 24-Hour Operations.

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Tropical Storm Ernesto

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  1. Tropical Storm Ernesto Evening Briefing August 28, 2005

  2. Silence All Phones and Pagers Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out all phones. Thanks for your cooperation.

  3. Fire Medical Stress Severe Weather Parking Safety Briefing

  4. SEOC LEVEL124-Hour Operations

  5. EOC Staffing • STATE COORDINATING OFFICER – Craig Fugate • SERT CHIEF – David Halstead • OPERATIONS CHIEF – Leo Lachat • ESF 5 CHIEF – Carla Boyce • LOGISTICS CHIEF – Chuck Hagan • FINANCE & ADMIN CHIEF – Suzanne Adams • PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER – Mike Stone • RECOVERY – Marcia Chiricos

  6. State Coordinating Officer Craig Fugate Up Next – SERT Chief

  7. SERT Chief David Halstead Up Next – Meteorology

  8. Meteorology Ben Nelson

  9. Tropical Storm Ernesto – 40 mph

  10. Steering Currents

  11. Wind Shear

  12. Water Temperatures

  13. Afternoon Computer Models

  14. Hurricane Ernesto – 5 PM Advisory

  15. TS Force Wind Speed Probabilities

  16. Hurricane Force Wind Speed Probabilities

  17. Arrival of Tropical Storm Force Winds

  18. Exit of Tropical Storm Force Winds

  19. How Dry / Wet Are We?

  20. Forecast Rainfall – Through Thurs AM

  21. Storm Surge Forecast Up Next – Information & Planning

  22. Information & Planning Patrick Odom Up Next – Operations

  23. Information & Planning Common Operational Picture • Lead Planners have been embedded in Emergency Services & Human Services to facilitate communications and planning within the SERT and external partners • Coordinate IAP, Branch/Section specialty plans, ESF/Branch • Communicate needs, accomplishments, movements, information • Focus on activities planned in the next 12 hours

  24. Vulnerable population estimated at 1.6 Million From Monroe to Flagler and includes populations living in coastal surge zones, low lying areas and manufactured housing Planning for a paralleling category 1/2 storm Track & intensity are still uncertain Tropical Storm warnings posted from Vero Beach South on the East Coast and Chokoloskee south on the West Coast including the Florida Keys and Lake Okeechobee Planning Assumptions

  25. Occupied temporary housing – 3,568 within the area of interest Evacuation of SpNS residents & FL Keys patients began this morning @ 6am All NPP (Turkey Point, Crystal River & St. Lucie) are within the 3 day error cone Planning Assumptions

  26. Jackson Holmes Santa Rosa Escambia Okaloosa Walton Gadsden Nassau Washington Calhoun Hamilton Jefferson Leon Bay Madison Duval Columbia Wakulla Suwannee Baker Liberty Taylor Union Clay Gulf Lafayette Franklin Bradford St. Johns Gilchrist Alachua Putnam Dixie Flagler Levy Marion Ernesto Evacuations Volusia Citrus Lake Seminole Sumter Hernando Orange Pasco Brevard Osceola Pinellas Polk Hillsborough Voluntary Evacuations Indian River Manatee Hardee Okeechobee St. Lucie Highlands Desoto Sarasota Martin Mandatory Evacuations Glades Charlotte Lee Hendry Palm Beach Broward effective Tuesday – MH and LLA and previously Impacted homes from 2004/2005 Broward Collier Miami-Dade Monroe Total Estimated at risk population:1.1 million

  27. Plans Planning for support of elections is underway Evacuation Plan developed Next SERT IAP meeting at 6:30AM 2 Additional planners reported today with 1 more expected Tuesday Reports Situation report published at 1:30PM and 7:30PM Intel Forecast report published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM and 11:30PM Intel Critical Information published at 10:30AM, 4:30PM and 11:30PM Media Briefing report published at 9:00AM and 3:00PM Plans and Reports Up Next – Operations

  28. Operations Leo Lachat Up Next – ESF 1&3

  29. General Operating Objectives • Evaluate vulnerable populations and the demographics/impacts of/to those populations (i.e. special needs, economics, ethnicity) • Determine potential impacts or consequences • Determine affects on early elections already underway • Continue staffing and deployment plans • Support Evacuations • Prepare for Impacts from Ernesto • Continue financial management of operations • Initiate Primary Response Operations Up Next – ESF 1&3

  30. ESF 1&3 Transportation & Public Works Up Next – ESF 2

  31. ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works • Current Issues • TOLL STATUS • Tolls remain suspended until further notice as follows: • Northbound Homestead Extension Florida Turnpike (HEFT) from Florida City to Miramar

  32. ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works • Current Issues (Continued) • Traffic Counters activated to monitor traffic in support of evacuation efforts • Fuel at FDOT maintenance yards being filled and monitored • SEOC Staffed for ESF 1 & 3 24hour Level 1 operations • TEOC Staffed for operations • Identifying VMB's, Cones and Barricades for MOT of DRC's

  33. ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works • Current Issues (continued) • Ground Recon teams identified • Rotary Recon teams to be identified • Tolls suspended on HEFT - From Florida City to Miramar, northbound only - to support evacuation efforts. • Inventories taken for sandbags • Inventories taken for generators

  34. ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works • Current Issues (continued) • Army Corp of Engineers • Sandbag Inventory identified • Lake Okeechobee level at 12.13 ft • No issues anticipated

  35. ESF 1&3 – Transportation & Public Works • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • Assist Department of State in Gen. power for upcoming elections • Support mission under unified command Up Next – ESF 2

  36. ESF 2 Communications Up Next – ESF 4&9

  37. ESF 2 – Communications • Current Issues • Contacting/Coordinating with Telecommunications Vendors- reports/standby • Responding and coordinating communications requests for resources and equipment • Charging sat phones and cell phones for delivery and pick-up • CSA's prepared for LSA Homestead and West Palm Beach with phone lines and dsl connections (technicians dispatched) • Coordinating contracts, agreements, etc for communications equipment services (i.e. cell phones, sat phones, sat links) • Conference lines (Reservationless)

  38. ESF 2 – Communications • Unmet Needs • Detailed information on communications packages needed/requested for DRCs with location • Future Operations • Continue to monitor storm and support communications needs, restoration, resources requested as appropriate. Up Next – ESF 4&9

  39. ESF 4&9 Firefighting and Search & Rescue Up Next – ESF 6

  40. ESF 4&9 – Fire Fighting & Search & Rescue • Current Issues • Requested FEMA to federalize two USAR Task Forces • * Other USAR teams have been identified as state assets and are on standby pending storm development • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • Continue to monitor Ernesto and respond to Tracker request. Up Next – ESF 6

  41. ESF 6 Mass Care Up Next – ESF 8 Up Next – ESF 8

  42. ESF 6 – Mass Care • Current Issues • Mobilizing resources and staffing to support evacuations and reentry • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • Has at least 100 ERV's staged and ready to move into Florida • 4 Kitchens staged and ready to move into Florida • 400,000 Heater meals staged and ready to move into Florida • 300,000 Blankets staged and ready to move into Florida • 200,00 Clean up kits staged and ready to move into Florida • 20 Support trailers staged and ready to move into Florida Up Next – ESF 8

  43. ESF 8 Health & Medical Up Next – ESF 10 Up Next – ESF 10

  44. ESF 8 – Health & Medical • Current Issues • Total of 7 high risk patients transferred out of Monroe • One shelter (FIU) open with 4 patients and no caregivers • 9000 dialysis patients (keys to Volusia - of which 2792 are in Miami) being dialyzed on a regular schedule - no problems anticipated • Some hospitals seeing slight surge in asthmatic and respiratory distress • Pre admitting brain and spinal cord and hospice high risk patients • 2 DMAT's and 2 NDMS Strike Teams forward staging in Orlando • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • Support local response as needed • Begin to move medical assessment teams forward to Orlando on 29 August Up Next – ESF 10

  45. ESF 10 Hazardous Materials Up Next – ESF 11 Up Next – ESF 11

  46. ESF 10 – Hazardous Materials • Current Issues • Identifiying Personnel for Haz-Mat Teams • Communicating with EPA and U.S. Coast Guard • Contacted FlaWARN for Water Facility Response Network • Monitoring Gyp Stack Impoundment Status • Established Cost Tracking • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • U.S. Coast Guard Representatives to ESF 10 on Tuesday • Preparing to assist Counties with Debris Staging Site approval Up Next – ESF 11

  47. ESF 11 Food & Water Up Next – ESF 12 Up Next – ESF 12

  48. ESF 11 – Food & Water • Current Issues • LSA teams notified and on standby • Authorization to release Commodities in affected counties has been issued • Water and ice being uploaded from state warehouses • Unmet Needs • None at this time • Future Operations • Continue monitoring inventories • Continue to upload trucks of water and ice until all trucks are loaded Up Next – ESF 12

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