2007 Wildfires

UNIFIED COMMAND UNIFIED COMMAND BRIEFINGBRIEFINGMay 23, 2007May 23, 2007

Please move conversations Please move conversations into ESF rooms and busy out into ESF rooms and busy out

all phones.all phones.

Thanks for your cooperation.Thanks for your cooperation.

Silence All Phones and Pagers

Safety Briefing

• Fire

• Medical

• Stress

• Severe Weather

• Parking

SEOC LEVEL

212 Hour Operations

EOC Staffing

• STATE COORDINATING OFFICER – Craig Fugate• SERT CHIEF – David Halstead• OPERATIONS CHIEF – Leo Lachat• PLANS CHIEF – Capt Jeffrey Hancock• LOGISTICS CHIEF – Chuck Hagan• FINANCE & ADMIN CHIEF – Cherie Trainor• PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER – Mike Stone• RECOVERY – Marcia Chiricos

Coordinating Officers

Craig Fugate

Up Next – SERT Chief

David Halstead

SERT Chief

Up Next – Meteorology

Up Next – Forestry

Meteorology

Amy Frank

Wednesday Warnings, Watches and Advisories

Red Flag Warning

Lake Wind Advisory

Small Craft Advisory

Special Weather Statement (Smoke)

Forecast Wind Speed and Direction

Forecast Wind Gusts

Thursday

Forecast Rainfall through 8 AM Wed

Panhandle & North Florida • Red Flag (interior, Nature Coast)• Lake Wind Advisory (NE coast)• Smoke moves west and northwest• High Transport Winds• No rain until next weekCentral Florida• Lake Wind Advisory (E coast)• Red Flag (interior, West Coast)South Florida• Rain (extreme S FL)• Windy

Division of Forestry

Up Next – OperationsUp Next – Planning

Up Next – Planning

Esther Johnson

Plans

Up Next – Operations

PlansPlanning Assumptions

• Wildfires in SE US are limiting available mutual aid resources for suppression activities in Florida

• Eastern winds 10-25MPH, with higher gusts; Chance of lighting induced wildfires in South Florida; Red Flag Warnings are in effect for all northern Florida and the western Peninsula

• Frequent road closures on various roads in impacted area, including I-10/I-75; more road closures expected

• Driving conditions remain dangerous in the effected areas; driving conditions can change rapidly.

• Effects of drought may potentially impact fire suppression

Plans

Roadway Closures (Per DOT, FHP and County Situation Reports)

Columbia County: US 441 from CR-246 to FL-GA state line

Open but Subject to Closure:US-441 from I-10 to SR-2I-75 from GA/FL Border to Lake CityI-10 from Live Oak to Sanderson

Up Next – Operations

Bob Howard

Operations

Up Next – Operations Support

Operations Support

Up Next – Emergency Services

Emergency Services

Up Next – Human Services

Emergency Services

• Current Issues • Fulfill resource requests• Continue to track deployed resources • Monitor potential road closures

• Unmet Needs• None

• Future Operations• Continue to fill and complete resource requests• Continue to demobilize resources• Continue to monitor complex fires and individual fires

throughout state

Human Services

Up Next – Infrastructure

HUMAN SERVICES

• Current Situation • American Red Cross

• 35 meals served by ARC 05-22-07• 90 snack • 2 ERV’s

• No Shelter Activity

• Future Operations•Continue to monitor the situation• Support SERT Operations

Infrastructure

Up Next – Logistics

Infrastructure ESF – 1 & 3 Transportation

• Current Operations ESF – 1 & 3 (WildFire)

• Maintain Activate Traffic Counters

• Monitor FDOT maintenance vehicles and a 5,000 gal water truck deployed to support fire suppression strike teams

• Monitor 35 Variable Message Boards

• Mark areas of Temporary local traffic detours or road closures deploying cones to impacted counties

Infrastructure ESF – 1 & 3 Transportation

• Future Ops ESF – 1 & 3 (WildFire)

• Monitoring Traffic Maintenance resources Variable Message Boards (VMB’s) & temp. closure warning “Smoke on Road” signs

• Maintaining Florida Dept. of Transportation

(FDOT) resources, equipment & personnel to support Florida Division of Forestry (FDOF) & Florida Highway Patrol (FHP)

• Providing road closure & detour advisory signage to FHP and ESF 16

• No unmeet needs at this time ESF – 1 & 3

Infrastructure ESF – 2 Communications

• Current Operations ESF – 2 (WildFire)

• Providing ongoing Communication support for Stark Fl. Fire Fighting command located at Keystone Air Park.

• MA-FLA (mutual aid) channel Demobilized - the county keeps the FCC temporary use authority (expiring on 11/12/07) but request to activate the extra channel is cancelled

• Demobilized (Partial) EDWARDS package deployed to Baker County for DOF

Infrastructure ESF – 2 Communications

• Future Operations ESF – 2 (WildFire)

• 23May - Standing-up Video conference link up for County EM’s Recovery Kick-off FMAGP grant briefing

• No unmet needs at this time ESF – 2

Infrastructure ESF – 12 Power

• Current Operations ESF – 12 (WildFire)

• electric utility companies report the grid is not endangered by Wilfires, at this time

• Electric Utilities providers have liaisons embedded within Division of Forestry Fire suppression strike teams.

Infrastructure ESF – 12 Power

• Future Operations ESF – 12 (WildFire)

• Proactive damage control “Barricade” Fire Blocking thermal protective gel-coating application continue on case by case basis

• Continuing to monitor fire suppression activity, individual and business customer service impacts and restoration

Infrastructure ESF – 12 Fuel

• Current Operations ESF – 12 (WildFire)

• Demobilized 9,000 gallon 75:25 diesel/mogas split fuel tender at the Columbia Co. Fire Fighter’s staging area

• Monitoring fire suppression efforts

Infrastructure ESF – 12 Fuel

Up Next – Logistics

• Future Operations ESF – 12 (WildFire) • 4,000 gallon tanker on standby for quick

deployment, if needed, for refueling the fire suppression strike team’s vehicles

• 25 others gas & diesel tankers available

8 – 1,500 gal to 4,000 gal fuel tenders available

17 – 9,000 gal fuel tenders available

• Unmet Needs ESF – 12 FUELNone, at this time

Logistics

Up Next – EMAC Mutual Aid

EMAC Mutual Aid

Up Next – Finance & Administration

Finance & Administration

Up Next – Public InformationUp Next – Public Information

Public Information

Up Next – RecoveryUp Next – Recovery

Recovery

Up Next – SERT ChiefUp Next – SERT Chief

SERT Chief

David Halstead

Next Briefing

May 24 1030 HrsBranch Briefing