Initial Protective Actions

• Upon notification of Community Level Event by Umatilla Chemical Depot authorities, Umatilla County E-911/Dispatch Center activates the A & N System.

• CSEPP staff, dispatch staff, or Community Liaison Officer (CLO) notify Incident Commander (IC) and provide initial essential information.

• Response personnel, ECC/EOC staff and key personnel will be alerted via Alert and Notification System (ANS) paging systems, radios and call down trees.

• All citizens in the IRZ/PAZ will be instructed by pre-recorded messages (in English and Spanish) to immediately "Shelter in Place". (These messages are played automatically over the A & N System TAR and EAS).

• Sirens will activate to alert people who are outdoors, directing them to seek shelter indoors and listen to their TAR.

• Highway reader boards (activated by Umatilla County E-911 Center) and the Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)(activated by ODOT) will warn the motoring public. (See Annexes A and G)

• Hermiston Police Department activates Evacuation Control System within IRZ/PAZ to direct highway traffic.

• If schools are in session, over pressurized facilities will be activated and students and staff will relocate to safe areas. Schools with evacuation plans will evacuate students and staff to designated host facilities. (See Annex J)

• Law enforcement agencies will isolate the at risk area by staffing access control points. (See Annex A)

(1) I-84 @ Port of Morrow Exit (Exit 165) Boardman Police Department
(2) Oregon 207 @ Bombing Range Road Morrow Co. Sheriff's Dept
(3) I-84 @ Barnhart Road (Exit 202) Oregon State Police
(4) U.S. 730 @ Oregon 37 Umatilla County Sheriff's Department

• Special events or facilities with protective action plans will implement them. (See Annex G)

• IC takes control of all assigned Emergency Services Personnel and Equipment in the IRZ/PAZ areas of Morrow and Umatilla Counties. Based on situation analysis, coordinates deployment of response assets with the Operations Section.

• IC establishes communications with County ECC/EOCs and UMCD EOC. (See Annex E)

• If time permits and plume model data indicates it can safely be accomplished, Irrigon fire personnel, monitoring and decon equipment will be relocated to the Boardman staging area. (See Annexes C and D)

• Agencies with a community response task force mission will prepare their equipment (Mobile Monitoring/command vehicle, pumper, tender and ambulance, etc.) and personnel for task force deployment at the direction of the Incident Commander/Operations Section. (See Annex C.)

• Decontamination units will deploy to designated sites. (See Annex D)

• ACPs staffed by law enforcement personnel will be turned over to appropriate agencies. (See Annex A)

• IC coordinates proposed evacuations with Morrow and Umatilla ECC/EOCs for planning logistic public alerting and instruction support. (See Annex G)

• Persons who have sheltered in place are directed to ventilate their safe rooms at appropriate times (See Annex F)

• Persons who ventilate their safe rooms will be directed to self-extract, with assistance to the extent possible. (See Annex F)