Regional Catastrophic Planning Team Plans - CT, NJ, NY, PA
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TOOLS & PLAYBOOKS

ANALYSIS

HAZARD ANALYSIS

Models five scenarios that could impact the region: a 10kT IND detonation, a major hurricane, multiple Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonations, a biological disease outbreak and an RDD detonation. Lists assumptions and considerations for each hazard; includes summaries for all 30 counties in the region.

PLAYBOOK

FEDERAL INTEGRATION

Focuses on the coordination and integration of federal assets following a catastrophic incident. Federal Integration Plans (FIPs) were developed for most regional catastrophic plans through a series of executive level and federal partner facilitated discussions.


PLAYBOOK AND DASHBOARD

CATASTROPHIC INCIDENT EXECUTIVE (CAT-X)

Provides a dashboard to communicate essential elements of information to decision makers by providing a mechanism for information to flow from the field to the EOC to executives.

GUIDE

REGIONAL EMERGENCY CONFERENCE CALL (RECC)

Provides guidance for organizing regional partners across the public and private sectors through conference calls. The RECC Guide is included in most RCPT plans.


PLAYBOOKS

JOINT FIELD OFFICE (JFO)

Pre-identifies facilities in NY and NJ for a JFO to support a catastrophic response. Includes playbooks for six different sites, including a virtual JFO and a soft-sided location, and references logistics requirements and floor plans. Emergency managers can also use the Site Requirements Plan and Facility Checklist to identify additional locations for JFOs.

RISK CARDS

STRATEGIC RISK REVIEW

Identifies inherent and emergent risks facing the region, overarching challenges to effective risk management, specific barriers faced by the region and methods to increase risk capacity. Research findings provide a framework for leaders to learn from "near misses" and prioritize risk reduction. The Playbook and Risk Card Deck detail a process for local risk review and tie risk management concepts to national planning scenarios.


OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

SAHANA

Tracks shelterees and allows jurisdictions to create staffing assignments using pre-identified staff and facilities. The Sahana Emergency Management System is a free web-based program accessible to jurisdictions across the country. Included in the Whole Product Solution is the software needed to install the program, user-friendly instructions and training that describes how to install and use.

WHOLE COMMUNITY TOOLKIT

PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING

Addresses long-term planning and recovery challenges by promoting effective coordination between the government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs) and the public at large. Includes five steps for the government and the community to work together following a disaster: activate, assess, envision, plan and implement.


BID SPECIFICATION AND PLAN

HOUSING RAPID REPAIR AND RECOVERY (H3R)

Focuses on developing an actionable plan for rapid housing repair to get residents back into their homes as quickly as possible following a catastrophic incident. The Program Plan outlines how to enable rapid mobilization of coordinated construction efforts across the region and Bid Specification helps in procuring appropriately qualified contractors quickly.

PLAYBOOK

COMMUNITY RECOVERY

Assists federal, state and local emergency managers, non-profit organizations and other public sector entities involved in community recovery and post-disaster housing to implement Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) eligible programs in an efficient and timely manner.



PROTOTYPE

URBAN POST DISASTER HOUSING

Includes the building and testing of an interim housing prototype based on a shipping container-style modular system in NYC.

PLAYBOOK

EXECUTIVE LEVEL POWER OUTAGE PRIMERS

Provides decision makers with a summary of the key concepts and challenges involved in power restoration.



GUIDE

ROLLING BLACKOUT

Includes guidance and operations-level tools for public agencies to prepare for strategic, rotating power outages.

MATRIX

POWER OUTAGE PERMITS AND REGULATIONS

Details permits and regulations for which exemptions may be required to expedite power restoration.



TOOL

COMMUNICATIONS RESILIENCY SELF-ASSESSMENT

Provides emergency service facilities with a self-scoring resiliency tool for measuring communications systems and procedures against industry best practices.

PROTOCOL / CAPABILITY

MFM REGIONAL CATASTROPHIC ASSESSMENT TEAM (RCAT)

Includes a protocol for RCAT teams that will deploy to support the local medical examiner/coroner to perform incident assessments and request resources and personnel from the region in a mass fatality incident.



MASS FATALITY DATABASE SYSTEM

UNIFIED VICTIM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (UVIS)

Includes three FOGs, one each for Scene, Disaster Morgue and Victim Information Center (VIC) Operations. The FOGs, available in print and digital copies, serve as a tool for the efficient and effective response to a Mass Fatality Incident (MFI).

ELECTRONIC PLANNING TOOL

DOZER DEBRIS MANAGEMENT

Guides users through the compilation and organization of essential information to produce a debris response action document. DOZER is a stand-alone software application designed for use either prior to or during a debris mission. Contains guidance for new users along with references to more comprehensive sources of information and assistance.



FIELD OPERATIONS GUIDES

MASS FATALITY

Includes three FOGs to standardize scene, morgue and antemortem operations followed by specific trainings in the use of each FOG.

DATABASE

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

Working with local data providers throughout the region, the database catalogs existing geospatial data to support a regional response to a catastrophic event.



TOOLKIT

EVACUATION BEST PRACTICES

Supports local, state and regional evacuation planning by providing best practices, case studies and actionable tools on using different modes of transportation in evacuation scenarios.

PLAN APP

QUICK TOUCH EOC

Provides a one-stop-EOC-shop for users to access and navigate RCPT developed plans and tools. Through a mobile device application, users can search by common terms and easily access plans and quick sheets during an EOC activation.



RESILIENCY TOOLKIT

CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS (COOP)

Provides assistance to the COOP and communications planning process to increase preparedness for an all-hazards response. It is scalable, from a single-site event within one jurisdiction to a large-scale regional emergency. It also provides a template to internally develop a COOP plan and a Request for Proposal (RFP) template for an entity to solicit proposals to develop a COOP.

SYSTEM

SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE

Detects disease outbreaks, gathers data on disease occurrence and communicates situational awareness during a catastrophic health event. The system provides templates and protocols that state and local health departments can use to share information in real-time. A syndromic model that provides synthesized data analyses and visualization to decision makers is also included.



COORDINATION TOOLS

BUILDING BLOCKS

Defines the Unified Area Coordination Group (UACG), the Forward Operating Base (FOB) and the EOC as the building blocks of catastrophic emergency management that allow jurisdictions to accept and organize outside assistance quickly and efficiently. A UACG Playbook, an EOC CONOPS and a FOB FOG have been developed.

DATABASE MODEL TOOL

WATERWAYS TRANSIT

Provides emergency managers with a better understanding of the passenger capacity of water-based transportation in the region during an emergency. It allows users to view data on vessels and landings, selecting passenger origin and destination points and calculating passenger throughput.



SYSTEM

CORPORATE EMERGENCY ACCESS SYSTEM (CEAS)

The regional Corporate Emergency Access System (CEAS) is a membership-based, private sector credentialing system that provides a pre-authorization database and identification card to facilitate access to restricted areas for critical private sector employees following a disaster. By pre-identify important businesses and providing them the security credentials to perform essential functions or mitigate damage and loss from disaster events, jurisdictions can help minimize disruption of important services for their communities. This RCPT sponsored system upgrade provides cross-jurisdictional functionality through a commonly accessible, web-based portal and a mobile phone application to authenticate credentials in the field. CEAS is available at no cost to jurisdictions. (www.ceas.com)

PROJECT

ACCESS AND FUNCTIONAL NEEDS

Provides planning considerations and guidance documents to assist emergency managers with meeting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidance and accommodations for people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in four specific areas: 1) Evacuation/Transportation, 2) Public Information and Notification, 3) Sheltering and 4) Whole Community. In addition, the project provides technical assistance to jurisdictions interested in AFN integration into the four specific areas of their disaster plans.



AIDS

ESF JOB AIDS

Includes mission, first steps, key and supporting agencies, plans, and tools for each of the 15 federal Emergency Support Functions (ESFs). Tips for success in performing the EOC's three missions of information management, resource management and consequence management are also included.

SNAPSHOTS

PLAN OVERVIEW

Pulls out the critical concepts included in the RCPT plans for users to access during an emergency. It is intended to be used as a large wall chart, printed as a reference guide or used electronically with direct links to PDF versions of the RCPT plans.
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