Alberta Emergency Management Agency- Provincial Services

1. Alberta Emergency Management Agency-Provincial Services Alberta-A Province Prepared

2. Outline • Concepts and Principles • Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) • Hazardous Materials-CBRNER • Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) • Joint Provincial Emergency Response capacity Alberta-A Province Prepared

3. Concepts and Principles • There are clearly response requirements that outstrip the capacity of a single community or regional partnership to develop and/or deliver • The Province has an essential role in ensuring this capacity exists and is available when needed Alberta-A Province Prepared

4. Concepts and Principles • Many ways to deliver this-partnerships, agreements, direct service provision, etc. • Must be collaborative approach • There are other service delivery groups and agencies that must be linked to community response Alberta-A Province Prepared

5. Concepts and Principles • Whatever is built must support and join up local response agencies to higher level skills and equipment to ensure mission success • Must identify a clear role for the Province • Must link or “join up” all aspects of the response including community, provincial and federal Alberta-A Province Prepared

6. GSAR • Integrate GSAR community into the emergency management framework • Revise GoA Support Plan for SAR (1990) • Establish GSAR Steering Committee • Develop Working Groups Alberta-A Province Prepared

7. Agency Support to GSAR • Develop and Test Protocols and Policies for GSAR that harmonize with CERP, JPERT • Integrate a GSAR Database into the Emergency Management Decision Support System (ARRC) • Incorporate training needs assessments and stakeholder input to support GSAR training program Alberta-A Province Prepared

8. Hazardous Materials • Includes CBRNER • No Provincial strategy/policy that will ensure an effective deployment of resources Alberta-A Province Prepared

9. Hazardous Materials • Focus has been on CBRNER but the real day to day risk is a major Haz Mat incident • Capacity exists in varying degrees in communities across Alberta with no link to ensure response outside their jurisdictions • We have communities with identified needs trying to establish capacities likely beyond their ability to sustain Alberta-A Province Prepared

10. Hazardous Materials • No costing formula • Needs to involve ASERT, EUB, etc • Must link all levels of response-first response-community, industry, and provincial response • We are pulling a working team together to evaluate the issue, assess the risk and develop recommendations to address it Alberta-A Province Prepared

11. Haz Mat Review • Evaluate the current CBRNE response system in Alberta and identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen capacities. • Develop recommendations for presentation to the Managing Director of AEMA for systemic improvements to include areas such as funding, service delivery, training, and clarification of the GoA role. Alberta-A Province Prepared

12. HUSAR • Is much more than a building collapse capacity • Offers up logistics and command support functions to a wide range of emergency and non-emergency activities • Might even be looked at as a recruitment and retention tool • Can be scaled to support large or smaller events Alberta-A Province Prepared

13. HUSAR • Is a critical provincial response asset • Is a center of excellence that can help improve the capacity of day to day routine responses across Alberta by engaging other response agencies in the system • We have been observing other models to learn what the Provincial relationship to the capacity might look like Alberta-A Province Prepared

14. HUSAR • Missing partner has been the province • We are working with CFD, STARS and other new potential partners to develop this capacity and make it available to all Albertans Alberta-A Province Prepared

15. Post Incident Analysis • New role and new ways • Current methodologies and reporting systems don’t capture everything nor do they provide the information needed • SIITeam Alberta-A Province Prepared

16. Post Incident Analysis • Broader Base • All Incident • We are pulling together a working group to look at all aspects of this. Alberta-A Province Prepared

17. JPERC • Joint Provincial Emergency Response Capacity • A joined up response capacity addressing key response areas using existing response agencies, industry, GOA Ministries and others to ensure an effective, coordinated response to events in Alberta Alberta-A Province Prepared

18. JPERC • A partnership • Responding to events, emergency and non-emergent Alberta-A Province Prepared

19. JPERC • Making effective use of key response capacities • Joining up the Fire and Emergency Management System • This is what we are building, with you for Albertans and our guests. Alberta-A Province Prepared

20. JPERC • Supporting and enhancing community capacity • Flood response, • Wildfire response • DG-CBRNE • HUSAR • GSAR • ???? Alberta-A Province Prepared

21. Questions? • Ernie.Polsom@gov.ab.ca • http://www.aema.alberta.ca/ Alberta-A Province Prepared