Implement Procedures

  1. UMCD simultaneously notifies Umatilla County, Morrow County and CTUIR E-911/Dispatch Centers and Hermiston Safety Center of a Community Level Emergency. (OSP Dispatch is also notified via All Call/Group Call notification)
  2. Umatilla County E-911/Dispatch Center activates the A & N System.
  3. ODOT Activates HAR system.
  4. Dispatchers at Morrow County and Umatilla County ECC/EOCs notify all key agencies and personnel listed on their notification rosters, informing them of the Community Level Event via radio and/or paging systems.
  5. Hazard Analyst or UMCD Community Liaison Officer (CLO) will provide WebPuff plume and concentration projections via the internet and IRIS Wi-Fi system.
  6. Law enforcement agencies establish ACPs.
  7. Dispatchers call in additional dispatcher personnel for assistance.
  8. The Incident Commander (IC), Command and general staff report to the Hermiston Safety Center, analyze the situation, and then begin appropriate immediate response actions. The IC and staff will utilize incident response priorities as follows:
    1. Life Safety
    2. Continuous Situational Awareness/Stabilization
    3. Environmental concerns
  9. IC Contacts the UMCD Commander (or designated representative) via the VTC and receives on post situation brief and coordinates off post deployment of RTAPs. (DMRS will be used as backup to VTC.)
  10. IC briefs the Command and general staff on the situation and receives status reports.
  11. The Law Enforcement Branch Director confirms via 450 mHz talk group that appropriate ACPs have been established (See Annex A) and log results. (OSP Channel 49 will be back up.)
  12. The Fire & EMS Branch Directors ensure that at risk response assets are relocating (if possible) and other response assets are reporting to deployment locations. (See Annexes B, C and D.)
  13. The Law Enforcement Branch Director confirms that Sheriff's Department boats are launched to enforce the Marine Safety Zone of the Columbia River.
  14. If school is in session, county ECC/EOCs will contact appropriate school authorities in their county to de-termine status of shelter-in-place and evacuation protective actions. Status, and any reported prob-lems associated with schools, will be reported to the Operations Section.
  15. Community response teams prepare for deployment; notify the Operations Section when they are ready to accept missions. (See Annex C.)
  16. Umatilla and Morrow County decontamination units will deploy as directed and will notify the Op-erations Section when they are ready for operations. (See Annex D.)
  17. Medical facilities prepare to receive patients, Good Shepherd Hospital activates its over pressuriza-tion system, and St. Anthony Hospital assumes responsibility as lead medical facility. (See Annex B.) If Good Shepherd is under the plume projection it will notify Operations that it is buttoning up and will not receive patients.
  18. IC contacts the ECC/EOCs of Umatilla and Morrow Counties to provide an initial update of the situation and receive a status report on the following:
    1. Status of the ANS.
    2. Actions taken to ensure that rail traffic, highway traffic (see ODOT regional plan and Annex A), Columbia River boat traffic and flight traffic (temporary flight restrictions for airspace beyond the UMCD security area) are all stopped.
    3. Status of School protective actions
    4. Status of Declarations of Emergency and delegations of authority (County, State and Feder-al).
    5. Status of assistance centers and mass care shelters. (See Annex K)
    6. Status of the ICS overhead support team, outside supporting agencies and state HAZMAT teams.
    7. Most recent hazard analysis briefing.
    8. Status of special event/facility protective actions. (Three Rivers Correctional Facility, Uma-tilla County Fair, Wall Eye Tournament, etc.) (See Annex G)
    9. Status of evacuation planning, as appropriate. (Based on situation briefing from UMCD Commander and hazard analysis, IC and appropriate elected/designated officials make de-cisions on evacuations, if appropriate. (Planning section in the ECC/EOCs will be tasked to develop evacuation plans for execution by the Operations Section.) (See Annex G)
    10. Status of Shelter-in-place ventilation decision time lines and implementing instructions for delivery via the TARs/EAS. (See Annex F)
    11. Status of extraction planning. (See Annex F)
    12. Status of preparation to transition to a state or federal incident management team after the initial emergency response phase.
    13. Status of requested state and federal assets.