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For the

Daytona Beach Police Department

Created By: Captain Dru Driscoll Daytona Beach Fire Department 2009

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Objectives Types of Evacuation

Coordinated Evacuation Efforts.

DBPD Search Assessments DBFD Search Markings and When They Will be Used

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Types of Evacuation

Three types of evacuations defined by the type ofevacuation order: mandatory, recommended, andvoluntary

Voluntary: Media Notified. No traffic control

established. For persons in high risk areas. Recommended: Media notified. Street to street

announcements not needed. Reverse 911 may be used.Re-entry to area not recommended.

Mandatory: Media notified, Reverse 911 shall be used,Door-to-door or street-to-street announcementsneeded. Deny re-entry to evacuated area.

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Coordination of Evacuation Evacuations are a multi-agency coordinated process. Evacuations shall be coordinated through Incident

Command.

Geographic grids will be established for door-to-doorand street-to-street evacuation efforts.

Communicate your completed evacuations (street orgrid) to immediate supervisor. Wait for reassignment.

Evacuations for Pre-Event and Post-Event may differ inyour assigned priorities.

Termination of the evacuation order will be issued andcommunicated by the Incident Commander.

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DBPD Search Assessments Post-Event, systematic street-to-street and door-to-

door searches and evacuations may be required.

Geographic grids will be established for door-to-door

and street-to-street search /evacuation efforts. Windshield Assessments should be performed

immediately after an event.

Windshield Assessment: Driving street-to-street

within assigned area reporting issues (buildingcollapse, fire, safety issues) to supervisor.

Interior structure searches should not be performed.Communicate location to be searched to supervisor.

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Fire Department Searches Through DBPD windshield assessments, Fire

Department personnel will be dispatched to performsearch and rescue within structures of light, moderate,or heavy structural damage.

CERT teams may perform interior searches of light tomoderately damaged structures.

Search Markings and Structure / Hazard Markings

shall only be performed by Fire Department personnelin structures that are determined uninhabitable.

DBPD officers may be deployed as a Task Force withDBFD and Public Works during search operations.

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Light Damage

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Moderate Damage

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Heavy Damage

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Search Markings Search Markings and Hazard Markings shall be

performed by Fire Department personnel. Markings shall be placed with orange paint or green

decals placed at front entrance to structure.

To prevent unnecessary expense to residents, Search

Markings will only be placed on uninhabitablebuildings as determined by DBFD.

Search Markings provide the following information:

Search started or complete

Hazards

Number of victims and/or dead

Who performed search and when performed

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Search Markings

Time

Hazards

Number ofVictims

Search Team

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Structure / Hazard MarkingStructure Safe for Search

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Structure / Hazard MarkingBuilding Significantly Damaged

Search may be Limited

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Structure / Hazard Marking

Do Not EnterSearch Not Safe

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Structure / Hazard MarkingHazardous Materials In Area

Haz-Mat Specialist Needed

HM

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Summary

Evacuations and searches are multi-agencysystematically coordinated events.

Each agency has a specific role.

DBPD Assessments, citizen safety, and evacuation

DBFD Search & Rescue, Building stabilization, andevacuations.

Public Works Road clearing, Large debris removal

Searches of structures and Search markings are to be

performed by DBFD. Search and Hazard information available at:

http://www.ksimt.org/USARMarkingSystem.pdf

http://www.ksimt.org/USARMarkingSystem.pdfhttp://www.ksimt.org/USARMarkingSystem.pdf