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12/26/15
12/26/15
DISASTER TEAM
• City Managers Office
• Elected Officials
• Finance
• Purchasing
• Public Works
• Parks
• Development Services
• Animal Control
• Police
• Fire
• CERT
• GIS
DECEMBER 26, 2015
• Office of Emergency Management
• EOC staffed at 2:00PM
• Monitored the weather all afternoon
• Impact at 7:02PM: EF‐4 tornado
• Three RFR units were dispatched to I-30 MVA in Garland before we knew the tornado’s impact on Rowlett.
• Within minutes after the impact our EOC was fully activated
• Requested mutual aid from county and state
• Worked through the night assessing conditions
• It was evident that we were facing the darkest day in Rowlett history
E
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DESTRUCTION PATH
ROWLETT
• 3.5 miles long
• Half mile wide debris field
• 1,296 homes affected
• 19 commercial facilities
GARLAND
• 9 Fatalities
• 1,120 Homes Impacted
• 216 Homes No-Entry Allowed
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ROLE OF ELECTED OFFICIALS
IN PREPARATION
• Engage your neighbors and other agencies formally and informally
• Mutual Aid County & City
• Public Works Emergency Response Team (PWERT)
• Debris Removal
• Damage Assessment
• Preplanning- Mutual aid agreements, preparedness, relationships
• Do you have the right contracts or agreements in place?
• Communications plan and community outreach
• Assemblies of staff and equipment/resources
IMPACT ON OURCITIES
• Employee departures and turnover
• Landfill overwhelmed
• Dealings with FEMA and State
• Staging areas – preapproved?
• Tires, Fuel, and Vehicles
• Digital method of record keeping
• Tracking of expenses
• Completing ICS-214 forms
• Software to quantify debris
• FEMA Re-Imbursement Process
• Long Term Recovery – Est. 2 years
AFTER ACTION
• Debrief – After Action Report
• Debriefing at the end of projects or incidents is a powerful tool.
1. What went well?
2. What went poorly?
3. What could we do better?
4. What did we learn?
5. Actions for follow‐up?
• There are many others out there and some more formal requirements may exist in your agencies
WHAT WE DID RIGHT
• Closed roads and controlled access
• PW Emergency Response Team
• Suspension of out of state contractors
• Web site, Newsletters, Handouts
• Video footage on YouTube
• Joint Disaster Recovery Center
• Marked the streets – all the landmarks and signs were gone…
• Discussions on Dallas Co. IMT
• Social media blitz
• Surveys
• CDR Maguire hired
• Long Term Recovery Committee
• Landfill passes and Debris Management
CONCLUSION
•Plan
•Prepare
•Train
•Network
•Execute
•Debrief
•Celebrate!!
