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Pathfinders Task Force

Pathfinders Task Force. Introduction and Overview.

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Pathfinders Task Force

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  1. PathfindersTask Force Introduction and Overview

  2. PTF - Founded in 1999PTF began when the Bahamian Prime Minister appointed the leadership of Disaster Solutions as the Incident Command for the entire multi-national relief operation after Hurricane Floyd. PTF relied on local, spontaneous volunteers. 1944: The real “Pathfinders” were “first in” for D-Day - Volunteers from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne.

  3. Emergency Management Problem:The 72 hour, post disaster, “self-care” window is about gone - I have 250,000+ homebound survivors with no power, no gas, and thus no access to our Points of Distribution. Food, water, and prescriptions are running out. What do I do?

  4. Pathfinders is an answer: In just 14 days, PTF Katrina, made up of 1,500+ local, state, federal, military, and volunteer responders, provided supplies and unmet needs services to 126,000 homebound survivors spread over 550 square miles. A PTF Strike Team deploying at 0800 from PTF base. Major General, Brigadier General, Civilian Task Force Leader & Command Staff review daily Ops.

  5. PTF Katrina PTF Katrina was able to serve 60% of the pre-hurricane population in Harrison County by combining spontaneous volunteers with 3 battalions of National Guardsmen who entered into the field to perform safe and well checks while seeking out the unmet needs of vulnerable populations.

  6. PTF Ike In its first 4 days, PTF was able to uncover 249 unmet special needs of homebound survivors in Orange County, Texas. Within 24 hours, 79 of 82 Immediate Special Needs identified by PTF Special Needs Crews received a follow-up by at least one Pathfinder EMT of Physician’s Assistant on a PTF crew.

  7. PTF Haiti Eagles Wings arrived in Port Au Prince on D+2, tasked by the World Food Programme. In just 8 days, a team of 8 Pathfinders were able to manage, coordinate, and distribute 2,249,200 meal rations to Haitian survivors.

  8. Pathfinders Typed Teams After the initial PTF Haiti, Type IV Team scaled back to a Type V Team, the State of Louisiana tasked in a Type V PTF Team into BP’s Deepwater Horizon response, which led to multiple Type III Teams being deployed for a total of 189 days in the Gulf.

  9. PTF BP Deepwater Horizon Two local responders showcasing a 90 pound tarball found on Bay Chaland in Plaquemines Parish. Two heavily oiled pelicans captured off the coast of St. Tammany Parish. PTF Deepwater Horizon coordinated the efforts of more than 400 crews of responders every day as they documented operations from Oil Recovery, Wildlife Sightings, Impacted Marshland Clean-Up, Boom Maintenance, etc.

  10. Situational Awareness Sample map provided to the Command Staff in Plaquemines Parish during the MC 252 response. The software implemented by PTF facilitates reporting by automatically time-date stamping and geocoding all data (including pictures) input into simple cell phones, that can then be overlaid in Google Earth to provide Command with an easily digestible way to see responder activity in their area of operation. During the response, PTF geocoded more than 48,000 forms and 18,000 photos.

  11. PTF Japan Following the 2011 earthquake in Japan, PTF was tasked to deploy a Type IV team that performed an operational risk assessment while laying the foundation for a logistics chain that funneled international donations to over 213 local Japanese churches.

  12. PTF 2011 South East Tornadoes Destroyed Home in Clayton, GA Fire Station hit by Tornado and then struck by Lightning. In 2011, PTF was requested to assist with some remote US Tornado incidents that destroyed many homes and much of the local infrastructure. PTF conducted rapid damage assessments while providing IMT guidance to local EMA’s.

  13. 2011 NLE (New Madrid) 10 County EM Directors in 4 States tasked Type IV & Type V Pathfinder teams to perform in this full scale exercise. During this operation, PTF collected almost 10,000 geocoded field reports with more than 1,000 geotagged pictures like these PTF aerial over flights of real flooding along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers .

  14. PTF Taskings The Pathfinders Task Force now has been tasked in writing more than 24 times by officials representing: • Local Emergency Manager Agencies • State Emergency Managers • Non-Governmental Organizational Partners

  15. PTF Objective #1: Provide a team which can document missions that deliver door to door supplies while conducting Disaster Welfare checks andrecruiting volunteers from the homebound. Hurricane Ike Lessons Learned Use Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) PTF Ops Briefing

  16. PTF Objective #2: Provide solutions with crews to resolve those unmet needs of the vulnerable populations uncovered as a result of the home delivery missions Collect, Sort, and Analyze Data The Primary Objective Long term recovery needs are referred to a host of other agencies through CAN, which assures follow up care.

  17. Long Term Recovery Referred to other appropriate agencies to assure follow up care through Eagles Wings’ partners at the Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN - 288 national not-for-profit agencies)

  18. Major General TJ Wright 38th ID (M), J-3, NGB, (ret.) Scott Lewis, CEM Unified Command PTF Katrina Commanders “Pathfinders is an exceptionally effective civilian / military team that saved lives and impacted thousands in the aftermath of Katrina. It was so logical in its conception that I don’t know why we didn’t do It beforehand. We need to implement it now”. Major General TJ Wright, (ret.)

  19. Volunteer Credentialing Pathfinders can: • Provide photo ID cards and accident insurance for unaffiliated or spontaneous volunteers. • Recruit, register, train, type, and track the hours of volunteers (valued at $19.75 per hour as a FEMA match). • Perform criminal background checks

  20. The PTF can combine EMAC forces, state and local responders, unaffiliated volunteers, and all of their equipment into a true ICS Task Force Part of PTF Katrina Command PTF uses unaffiliated volunteers

  21. PATHFINDERS TASK FORCE Unified Command Pathfinder Commander EMAC/Fed. Group Pathfinder Commander Safety Officer Liaison Officer Sample ICS 207 EOC Liaison ESF 15 or 6 Agency Representatives Clerical Local Intel Officer Logistics Chief Planning Chief Operations Chief Finance Chief Unmet Needs Group Supervisor Depot Group Supervisor Civil. Pathfinders Group Supervisor Resource Unit Leader Demob Unit Leader Situation Unit Leader Unmet Nds. Strike Team Leader 2nd Strike Team Leader Crew Leaders 1st Strike Team Leader Volunteer Unit Manager Documentation Unit Leader Delivery Teams 1st Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 4th Strike Team Leader 3rd Strike Team Leader Reception Unit Manager Mapping Unit Manager Debris Group Supervisor 2nd Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 5th Strike Team Leader ID & Background Unit Manager Responder Medical Unit Leader Survivor Data Unit Manager Crew Leaders 3rd Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 1st Crew Leader 2nd Crew Leader Training Unit Coordinator Food Unit Leader 4th Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 3rd Crew Leader 4th Crew Leader Career Staff Unit Leader Facility Unit Leader 5th Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 5th Crew Leader 6th Crew Leader Supply Unit Leader 6th Unmet Nds. Crew Leader 7th Crew Leader Comm’s Unit Leader IT Unit Leader Sample of 1 of 5 Strike Teams Each Crew could have a Volunteer support crew

  22. Pathfinders’ Volunteer Typing • Type V – Entry level - Inexperienced and untrained – Photo ID, signed Application, Release, and Volunteer Handbook (listed as “Apps” below). • Type IV – Inexperienced with some training.Minimum: Apps, criminal background check, IS-100.a, IS-700.a, PTF Orientation. • Type III – Inexperienced with some command training. Apps, criminal background check, IS-100.a, IS-200.a, IS-700.a., IS 800.b., (Basic First Aid, CPR, and CERT (recommended)), PTF Orientation. • Type II – Some experience with full command training. Apps, criminal background check, IS-100.a, IS-200.a, G-300, IS-700.a, IS-800.b. First Aid and CPR (recommended), PTF Orientation. • Type I – Experiencedwith commandtraining. App., IS-100.a, IS-200.a, G-300, G-400, IS-700.a, IS-800.b, criminal background check, First Aid, CPR (recommended), PTF Orientation, verifiable field experience.

  23. Catastrophic Event Scenario Help requested by the local EOC Assignment: Palm Beach County PTF Area of Operations PTF time phased, force deployment: With a request for the PTF’s Liaison Package or the Advance Team, a local EM can use PTF’s subject matter specialists to help determine the level of the response needed.

  24. Base of Operations Large High School Selected by the local EOC, through the local SERT Liaison, in coordination with State EOC & the PTF Cafeteria, gym, administrative offices, classes, parking, secured, good traffic flow, Ball field – heliport Base icon

  25. A portion of the PTF Area of Operations Strike Team Assignments Priorities chosen by the local EOC Strike Team Grids – 1+ sq. miles each 1st Strike Team 2nd Strike Team 3rd Strike Team Fire Station Police Station Hospital 4th Strike Team Base 5th Strike Team Note: Pathfinders will not operate in hazard zones covered by Search & Rescue, though there may be overlap with the final phases of their operations SAR Zone Collect Data

  26. Rapid Windshield Damage Assessments During D + 2 – PTF Recon Crews PTF Ike 4,389 geocoded surveys 3 volunteer crews in 6 hours No cell towers or Internet

  27. Activation / Deployment Grid search patterns 5 Strike Teams 1st Strike Team 2nd Strike Team 3rd Strike Team 4th Strike Team In addition, PTF area support operations are on-going within the entire geographic region assigned to this PTF with Hot Shot crews for special assignments. 5th Strike Team Collect Data

  28. Objective # 1: Disaster Welfare Information (DWI) per FEMA’s National Response Framework (NRF). Sample – DWI from homebound or evacuees.All contacts GPS located, time & date stamped. “The robust Excel reports are easy to sort and then simple to email to the appropriate agency for follow up.”T.S. Fay FEMA JFO Sort Data

  29. Objective # 2: Crisis CounselingPTF’s volunteers provide comfort aid support.Sortable Excel list to cooperating agencies, beginning with the local EOC which receives all PTF data on its citizens - without restrictions. EFFICIENT: Client follow up can be routed to another team or agency’s phone via an electronic work order. When that work order task is completed, that phone can electronically signal that the task is completed. Full circle accountability with no paper work. The entire cycle is geocoded, time and date stamped via the software. Sort Data

  30. Pathfinders Courses PTF offers two courses based on Lessons Learned. The Program Management (24 hr.) is a Train the Trainer designed to create and implement an IAP. The Basic Full-Scale Exercise (8 hr.) allows graduates from the PMC to coordinate volunteers in the Basic to enact their IAP. Missouri has piloted this project.

  31. “After a field exercise in my County, I can give Pathfinders my highest recommendation. It was refreshing to see volunteers fully incorporate NIMS guidelines, deliver a full Incident Action Plan (lAP), and impose a strict chain of command which answered to the local EOC for its directives and objectives. The Pathfinder Task Force prototype exceeded all of my expectations.” Nancy Freeman, National EMAP Tech. Committee Member Heliport at PTF base

  32. KEY PARTNERSHIP Eagles Wings Foundation and University of South Florida have partnered with an MOU under the College of Public Health, Center for Operational Readiness, Response, & Recovery (COR3).

  33. How to request: Pathfinders Task Force (PTF) Stand By, No Cost, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) No net costs to the local or State EOC under a Declaration if… • Requested by a local EOC or DEM Regional Coordinator • Tasked by ESF-15 or ESF-6, at the State EOC • Local Agency Administrator signs a Mission Assignment or, if out of Florida, tasked through the • Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) FEMA Public Assistance’s review of PTF reimbursement rates, Category B -- “reasonable” to “very reasonable”

  34. Frequently asked questions by Emergency Management: 1. What can Pathfinders do for me? A. 125,000+ homebound survivor visits in 14 days while seeking out and resolving unmet needs. B. Recruiting and training local and / or unaffiliated volunteers. C. Staffing POD’s or CSA. D. Debris clearing, Hot Shot assignments.

  35. Frequently asked questions by Emergency Management: 2. What support does Pathfinders need from me? A. Mission pre-planning after request for Pathfinders’ Liaison or “A” team. B. Totally self-supporting for first 72 hours. C. DOT fuel, bulk food and water thereafter. D. Supplies for home delivery.

  36. Frequently asked questions by Emergency Management: 3. What does Pathfinders cost my jurisdiction? A. No cost, stand by MOA. B. Even with all of the daily reimbursable costs of the Type III team and 500 volunteers, along with EMAC / Federal assets (for ex: 300 person Guard unit) - there can be a net dollar credit match from FEMA to the requesting agency.

  37. Katrina’s Ground Zero 41.5 feet overwhelming a Louisiana levy with this tidal surge PTF wants to pre-plan with you for the deployment of a Pathfinders’ Task Force. Use the 1. PTF Liaison Package; 2. PTF “A” Advanced Team; 3. PTF Volunteer Management Team. For training, PTF courses are available. (1) Basic Course with its Full Scale, Field Exercise; (2) Program Management Course

  38. Disaster Solutions LLC www.disastersolutions.cc A Certified Minority Business Enterprise (CMBE) (PBC vendor #: 115590; SBA User ID #: PO866344; Dunn #: 619108363) The Eagles Wings Foundation, Inc. www.theeagleswingsfoundation.org A multi-faith-based, 501(c)(3), non-profit foundation www.pathfinderstaskforce.com Scott Lewis, CEM, FPEM Pathfinder Commander 375 Possum Pass West Palm Beach, FL 33413 202-495-0422 (Washington, D.C.) 561-689-6283 (Florida) 561-389-9667 (cell) This power point also available on the web site of:

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