Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 11.4
Details That Should Be Included in a Situation Overview
Suggested Emergency Operations Plan Elements
Maps
• Use detailed, current maps or charts.
• Include demographic information.
• Use natural and man-made boundaries and structures to
identify risk areas.
• Annotate evacuation routes and alternatives.
• Annotate in-place sheltering locations.
• Use geographic information and analytical tools, as
appropriate.
Environment • Determine response routes and times.
• Include bodies of water with damn or levees (these could
become contaminated).
• Specify special weather and climate features that could alter
the effects of a WMD.
Population
• Identify those most susceptible to WMD effects or
otherwise hindered or unable to care for themselves.
• Identify areas where large concentrations of the population
might be located, such as sports arenas and major
transportation center.
• List areas that may include retirement communities.
• Note locations of correctional facilities.
• Note locations of hospitals, medical centers, schools,
daycare centers, or any other locations where multiple
evacuees may require assistance.
• Identify non-English-speaking populations.
Regional
• Identify multijurisdictional perimeters and boundaries.
• Identify potentially overlapping areas for response.
• Identify rural, urban, suburban, and city mutual-risk areas.
• Identify mutual aid resources from adjoining municipalities.
• Identify terrorism-speciic or unique characteristics, such as
interchanges, choke points, traffic lights, traffic schemes
and patterns, access roads, tunnels, bridges, railroad
crossings, and overpasses or cloverleafs.
Resources
• Identify mutual aid resources.
• Identify terrorism-speciic resources.
