Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Emergency Management Year End Review

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1 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Emergency Management 2013 Year End Review Emergency management is the practice of dealing with and preventing or avoiding risk. Agencies for emergency management are found at all levels of government. Emergency management has four main phases and types of activities for which it engages; these activities include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Mitigation is the effort to prevent incidents from becoming disasters and working to lessen the overall effects of disasters. Overall, mitigation activities tend to be long-term efforts for reducing or eliminating risk. Preparedness encompasses activities that prepare an area for potential hazards and should include a thorough understanding of activities needed within the area to help the preparedness efforts. Response is the actual response by an emergency management agency during an event, incident, or disaster. Finally, recovery is the collection of activities that are implemented after an incident to help an area recover. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Emergency Management s main purpose is to establish and coordinate activities involving mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Currently, there is one Emergency Management Director, three Coordinators (there were only two Coordinators for the majority of 2013) and one Administrative Assistant. There is always one individual on-call; the Director and Coordinators alternate who is assigned as on-call. The Office of Emergency Management is located at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem. Listed below and the attached slides, you will find the 2013 activities for Winston- Salem/Forsyth County Emergency Management. Exercise/Drill Participation and/or Coordination UNC School of the Arts & Winston-Salem State University Tabletop Exercise February Arts Based Elementary Lockdown Drill February NC HART (Helicopter & Aquatic Rescue Team) Statewide Exercise February NC Emergency Management WebEOC Exercise Monthly Statewide Tornado Drill March VIPER Test (Statewide Radio System) Monthly Forsyth County Emergency Operation Center Tabletop Exercise for Officials & Dept. Heads May Wake Forest Baptist Health Exercise May High Point PD Crisis Tabletop Exercise June BB&T Drill (August) UNC School of the Arts & Winston-Salem State University Full-Scale Exercise September Reynolds America, Inc. Tabletop Exercise November Smith Reynolds Airport Full-Scale Exercise November

2 Operation Breaking Bad (Regional Full-Scale Hazmat Exercise) December Event Coordination Forsyth CERT 2012 Volunteer of the Year Awards Banquet February Are You Ready?/Zombie 5K April Event Participation Piedmont Fire Expo January NC Emergency Management Forum January & June NC Emergency Management Association Spring Conference March Winston-Salem State Safety Day September Kernersville Safety Day September Forsyth County Preparedness Fair September Responsible Dog Ownership Day (volunteers) September NC Emergency Management Association Fall Conference October GIS Day November Training Delivered/Coordinated TRIPwire (DHS Technical Resource for Incident Prevention) January Mass Shootings/Mass Violence January, May & November Mass Shootings/Mass Violence for Greensboro FD June Mass Shooting/Mass Violence at NC Law Enforcement Officer Conference June Mass Shootings/Mass Violence for High Point FD & PD October & November Search & Rescue Operations January TLAER (Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue) Awareness February Criminal Elements & Terrorist Threats March Forsyth County Emergency Operations Center & EM training for Officials & Dept Heads April TLAER (Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue) Operations May Terrorism Response May Skywarn/Weather Spotter Training May Wildlife, Reptile & Exotics Workshop June ICS (Incident Command System) 400 June Emergency Management Role (for Winston-Salem Telecommunicators) July

3 Basic Rigging for Large Animal Rescue July & November MERRTT (Modular Emergency Response Radiological Transportation Training) September Community Involvement in EM Programs (at NCEMA Fall Conference) October Mass Violence Seminar November CAMET (Companion Animal Mobile Equipment Trailer) & Emergency Pet Sheltering Training December Grant Management and Execution 2013 EMPG Emergency Management Performance Grant 2010 State Homeland Security Grant 2011 State Homeland Security Grant Hazard Mitigation Grant - Northern Piedmont Hazard Mitigation Plan 2012 CERT Grant Course & Training Participation By EM Staff *Numbers indicate the number of staff in attendance Search & Rescue Operations January 2 TRIPwire (DHS Technical Resource for Incident Prevention) January 2 Emergency & Evacuation Planning for Medical Dependencies February 1 TLAER (Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue) Awareness February 1 CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Program Manager March 1 TLAER (Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue) Operations May 1 Skywarn/Weather Spotter Training May 1 Wildlife, Reptile & Exotics Workshop June 1 Hurrevac (Hurricane Evacuation Software) Training July 1 Social Media for Natural Disaster Response & Recovery July 1 EM, 2 volunteers NFIP (National Flood Insurance Program) Workshop August 1 Forsyth County SNS (Strategic National Stockpile) Training September 4 Warning Coordination Training October 1 Basic Rigging for Large Animal Rescue November 1 CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) TTT (Train the Trainer) November 1 Methamphetamine Laboratory Awareness & Operations TTT November 3 CAMET & Emergency Pet Sheltering Training December 3

4 Emergency & Disaster Planning Assistance St. Paul s Episcopal Church Day Care Temple Immanuel Synagogue Wiley Middle School City of Winston-Salem Employees City of Winston-Salem University Appalachian State University Mass Violence Forum Industries for the Blind Millhaven Dam Weaver Fertilizer NC Risk Managers Association Workplace Violence UNC School of Medicine Mass Violence New Horizons Day Care Forsyth County Fire/Rescue Association International Bike Race Event Extreme Weather & Regional Mitigation Planning Piedmont Together Carl Russell Recreation Center Child Care Yadkin County LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) Large Animal Rescue Guilford County LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) Mass Violence Arts Based Elementary Emergency Sheltering Clemmons Middle School Flat Rock Middle School Winston-Salem Air Show The Enrichment Center Emergency & Mass Violence Guilford County LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) Conference Griffith Elementary Dixie Classic Fair Town Fork Creek Watershed Dam WSTA (Winston-Salem Transit Authority) Other EM Initiatives, Program Participation or Program/Initiative Coordination (bold red signifies Program Coordination) Ready FORSYTH website ( ) Ready FORSYTH Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Picasa)

5 PEART (Piedmont Emergency Animal Response Team) Program CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Program City of Winston-Salem Service Excellence DOT Planning/Incident Review Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System Safety & Public Safety Partners Forsyth/Guilford Joint LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) Forsyth County LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) TRAC (Triad Regional Advisory Committee) SWAW (Severe Weather Awareness Week) Forsyth County Web Users Safe Kids NFIP/CRS (National Flood Insurance Program/Community Rating System) COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters) Winston-Salem/Forsyth County EM Advisory Council NC CERT Conference SART (State Animal Response Team) & PEART (Piedmont Emergency Animal Response Team) Coalition Northern Piedmont Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan (7 counties) MapForsyth Public Safety Committee Wake Forest University Crisis Communications National Preparedness Month Public Safety Agency Coordination of Mass Violence/Active Shooter policies Emergency Operations Plan annual update Forsyth County Hazard Mitigation Plan update The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Office of Emergency Management responded to 45 incidents in 2013, including an aircraft crash; an apartment fire with multiple displacements; a mass casualty transportation incident; tractor trailer wrecks; severe weather damage; a suspicious powder call; and multiple hazardous material spills. See accompanying slide show.

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