5.3 Resources and Equipment
This phase focuses heavily upon the ability for personnel in the field to communicate with personnel in the emergency operations center and Traffic Management Center. Supplying needed resources and equipment to the field may present a challenge depending upon the condition of the roadway network. Identifying resources and equipment that would be needed in the field and strategically placing those items in locations that would be easily accessible in the event of an evacuation may facilitate the task of providing resources and equipment to field personnel.
Table 8 describes some of the resources and equipment needed for various agencies to conduct the evacuation operations phase.
Table 8: Phase 4 Evacuation Operations Resources and Equipment
Agency Type |
Agency |
Resources and Equipment |
| Local Agencies |
Emergency Management |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Inter-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Emergency alert system
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Service patrol vehicles with towing and refueling capabilities used to provide evacuees with assistance with minor automobile issues
- Emergency Operations Center
|
Transportation |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Traffic Management/Operations Center
- Current road condition information
- ITS devices (e.g., surveillance cameras, DMS, HAR, 511 or other traveler information systems (phone and/or Web), interconnected traffic signal systems, HOV lanes, ramp metering, traffic signal priority for buses, and vehicle detection systems)
- Vehicle fleet
- Service patrol vehicles with towing and refueling capabilities used to provide evacuees with assistance with minor automobile issues
- Barricades, cones, sandbags, gravel, light towers, arrow boards
|
Law Enforcement/ Public Safety |
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- ICS
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Police cruisers
- Flares
- Fire arms, tasers, etc.
- Mobile Command Post
- Helicopters
|
Fire Department |
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- ICS
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Fire trucks
- Ambulances
- Mobile Command Post
- Decontamination equipment
- Fire suppression equipment
- Fire protection equipment
- Hazmat teams
|
Transit |
- Intra-agency communications system
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Transit vehicles (e.g., buses, trains, trolleys, ferries, and wheelchair lift-equipped vehicles)
- Park-and-ride lots
|
County and State Agencies |
County Emergency Management |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Inter-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Emergency alert system
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Mobile Command Center
- Emergency Operations Center
|
State Emergency Management/Office of Homeland Security |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Inter-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Emergency alert system
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Mobile Command Center
- Emergency Operations Center
|
County Department of Transportation |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Traffic Management/Operations Center
- Current road condition information
- ITS devices (e.g., surveillance cameras, DMS, HAR, 511 or other traveler information systems (phone and/or Web), interconnected traffic signal systems, HOV lanes, ramp metering, traffic signal priority for buses, and vehicle detection systems)
- Mobile Command Center
- Barricades, cones, sandbags, gravel, trucks, light towers, arrow boards
|
State Department of Transportation |
- Emergency evacuation plans
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Traffic Management Center
- Current road condition information
- ITS devices (e.g., surveillance cameras, DMS, HAR, 511 or other traveler information systems (phone and/or Web), interconnected traffic signal systems, HOV lanes, ramp metering, traffic signal priority for buses, and vehicle detection systems)
- Mobile Command Center
- Barricades, cones, sandbags, gravel, trucks, light towers, arrow boards
|
County Law Enforcement/Public Safety |
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- ICS
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Police cruisers
- Helicopters
- Flares
- Fire arms, tasers, etc.
- Mobile Command Post
|
State Law Enforcement/Public Safety |
- Intra-agency communications system
- Back-up communications (e.g., cell phones, satellite phones, bull horns, cable television, AM/FM radio, email, Internet, fax, handouts, maps, and ham radio operators)
- ICS
- Personnel (on- and off-duty)
- Police cruisers
- Helicopters
- Flares
- Fire arms, tasers, etc.
- Mobile Command Post
- Web site
|
Other Agencies |
Media |
- Mobile units with satellite communications
- Video cameras
- Reporters
- Technical crews
- Helicopters
|
Private Support Agencies (e.g., Red Cross and Salvation Army) |
- Personnel
- Mobile and permanent shelters
- Rest stations
- Food
- Water
- Medical care
- Pet resources
|
June 26, 2006
Publication #FHWA-HOP-08-020
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