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COPENHAGEN FIRE BRIGADE
Exercise: Bird diseaseCivil protection system
Oresund Region
Niels Johan Juhl-NielsenHead of division
Safety and EmergencyCity of Copenhagen
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The Danish Emergency Act
At least one time during an electional periode the city council must decide a total emergency plan for the city.
(In Copenhagen it is the Fire Brigade who are responsible for coordinating a proposal for en emergency plan. The rescue commander is responsible for setting-up an administrative staff if needed).
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14 COUNTIES
275 MUNICIPALITIES
Preparednesscenter
The Danish Emergency Management Agency
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Emergency Control Centres in Denmark
• 9 Emergency Control Centres managed by the police
• 1 Emergency Control Centre is managed by Copenhagen Fire Brigade after agreement with The County and the city of Frederiksberg and Copenhagen.
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Copenhagen Municipality
500.000 inhabitants
More than 650.000 intotal
88 square kilometres
7 Fire- andambulance stations
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1.2 million inhabitants
3 Counties
20 Municipalities
1 Emergency Control Centre
20 Fire Brigades
1 Police Control Centre
Greater Copenhagen
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Co-oporation in a scene of accident
• The Police has the responsibility of coordinating • The Fire brigades has the responsibility of
technical management• The Health authorities (hospitals) has the
responsibility of the Prehospital Preparedness (ambulances and medical staffs)
The coordination position of the police indicates that police is responsible for leading the regional coordinating staff, activating at a major incident.
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Participants in emergency co-oporation
• Police• Copenhagen Fire Brigade • Prehospital Preparedness• Assisting Forces from neighbour Fire Brigades• Volunteer Forces• Preparedness Centre (Danish Emergency
management Agency)• Supporting Centres
Police coordinates at the regional level, Fire Brigade only for the internal municipal level (the administrative staff).
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Copenhagen – a Danish capital in the Oresund Region
The framework for emergency planning in the region:
• A bridge between Denmark and Sweden• A national vulnerability rapport followed up
with a national emergency policy (and legislation)
• The EU-project ”Civilsafety in the Oresund Region”
Challenge: designing an emergency architecture for Copenhagen as a part of the whole Oresund Region!
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Main task according to article 1 in the Danish Emergency Act
The task of the rescue service: Prevent, reduce and relieve damage onpersons, property and the environment
But how can fire service contribute in case of an epidemic???
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Basic principle for Civil protection
EU context:
Civil preparedness or civil protection is a matter of internal national affairs
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Danish national emergency policy
Denmark has no special emergency policy for cross border activity with Sweden (and Germany)
Other platforms for trans-national emergency
• Support to a EU-platform concerning civil protection
• Two nordic Agreements on respectively rescue and health
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EU-project ”Civilsafety in the Oresund Region”
2002-2005Participation from counties in the region,
municipalities and hospitalsector.
Aims:To contribute and create preconditions to civil
sector preparednes in the Oresund Region.
The participants do this work without guide-lines from the EU or from their governments.
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Conclusions: Two nations – to cultures?
Denmark• Top-down• The police
coordinates• Vertical sectoral
responsibility• Local rescue
based risks and prevention
Sweden• Law determined
buttom-up • Geografically and
municipallity based responsibility – risks and prevention
• Political structures dominates
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Cross border exercise: bird disease in the Oresundsregion
A two days exercise at the regional authority in Sweden.
70-80 participants from municipalities, police, rescue, specialists
Focus: cross-border, vertical ctr. horizontal, different crains of experiences.
Purpose: How can Geographic Information System (GIS) contribute to prevent and mitigate for those who are in charge in a disaster?The emergency actors should know about the possibility of the GIS – the scenario was tested!!
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Information about the exercise
• How to find the participants?• Common exerciseroom with diff. groups• A decisionmaking-group• 9 in-puts• Separate and a common report and a
conference in the end• Information for relevant authorities and
research• The exercise report will be included in the final
EU-project report
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What happens?
• Children and old people goes to the hospital (influenza?)
• Some hens and ducks dies (60 km away)• On the island in Oresund birds were found
dead• In Sweden the same
But it takes some time before these information are coordinated. Any connections between them? If? What is the diagnosis?
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9 in-putsI. 20% of the birds dead on a farm – the authorities asked for advice.
II. The hospital have some cases of influenza
III. Test showes the birds are infected of bird disease.
IV. More farms reports of dead birds.
V. Bird disease type H5 N1
An elderly man visit the hospitals in Landskrone (Sweden) maybe with influenza. More citizens arrive to the hospital with the same symptoms
Worried parents contacts the schools and ask if the children should stay at home.
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VI. Destruction of birds in each country
VII. The elderly man is infected with type H5 N1
VIII. How to inform the public? Special groups?
IX. The elderly man dies and you have more cases in each country
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Items – from the rear-view mirror
• Set-up – crisis management architecture in the two countries
• GIS – from tools to basic platform• A uniformed press strategy• Cross border cooperation • Destruction of the birds• The bodies• Information for the citizens and the staff• Specific medicine items
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Items – set-up
• The utilities has the sectorresponsibility• The geographical area responcipality is not
defined in Denmark• The ownership for the accidens will change • First contact cross border through the Sector
autorities• Primary emergency platformes: Specialist
autorities, municipalities, police, the doctor institution
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Items - GIS
• GIS-people and crisis management people live in ”two worlds”
• Lack of simultanious GIS- models • The ownership of ”the crisis” change during the
crisis: what about GIS?• More exercises with the application of GIS!
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Items – press strategy
• Niveau 1: separate• Niveau 2: separate but now contact• Niveau 3: common
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Item - destruction
• Different guide-lines in the two countries• Destruction-infrastructure og capacity• Capacity of keeping and burial
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Conclusions
• Geografic Information System is useful for those who are in charge of the emergency management
• A public databank will be useful for the GIS• For the information of the citizens GIS was a
useful tool• Besides: the exercise made it possible to build
new network • Lots of problems with the security and
information• Distance between the politicians and GIS-people
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Visions and reality
After opening the bridge – there har been no progress in establishing a cross-border and cross-sectoral cooperation in the Oresund Region.
A task force recommends: 1. an agreement including all emergency actors
in the Oresund Region, 2. a total ressource list 3. exercises for all emergency partners.
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Problems?
• Different emergency architectures/cultures in the countries
• Vertical contra horizontal• Experts-politicans• Local responsibility – police/firebrigade• A generel – but flexible – model for crises
management?• Change in coordination-position during the
proces.
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Critical moments in the exercise process
• In general: the mental preparation (who cares?)
• Early warning and the point of time for the diagnosis – vertical and horizontal
• When denying your kids to go out-side?• Change in responsibility for the coordination
(starting with the specialist authorities and then giving it to the police in Denmark and the regional authorities in Sweden)
• Acceptance of the special dynamic in developing of the scenario.
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Conclusions
Results: • The exercise showed that it is needed in advance
to define the emergency architecture• GIS contains benefits for the decisionmakers in the
Region, but we need a generel information and implementation
• Careness about GIS innovation?• Sufficient available datas in a crisis • Probmel with interoperability• Exercise, exercise………• Networking is always useful !!
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General recommandations
Because the two national governments have not finished their integration decisions the EU-project recommends:
With representatives from all emergency partners establishing of an Oresund Emergency Board
Purpose: information-sharing, conferences, up-dating, focus, contact.Condition: a budget
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New basic conditions?
• Different kind of structured knowledge in learning processes (generalists/specialists, practioneers/academics)
• Chain of experiences (health, municipality, police)
• Need of new structured competences free of the hierarchy top-down tyranny
• Need for a new kind of leadership
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Management
Secretariat
The Building and Construction Committee
Planning &Architecture
IT office
Building &Housing
Road & Park
KTKThe Copenhagenfire service
City Churchyards
ParkingCopenhagen
RIA
Basic unit
Contract-managed unit
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Fire Brigade Organization
Secretariat
Management
Personnel Dept.
IT-Dept.ServiceDept.
Fire and RescueDept.
AmbulanceDept.
Alarm andControl Centre
Dept. of FirePrevention
Fire-StationD
Fire-StationT
Fire-StationF
Fire-StationV
Fire-StationH
Fire-StationC
Fire-StationØ
MedicalDept.
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Fire Preparedness today
7 fire stations On 24 hours alert : 78 Fire Fighters
including 8 Pioneers and two Fire
Officers on duty 12 Ambulances 2 Medical teams on wheel
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Information!
A new administrative structure for the Municipality of Copenhagen will function from January 2006.
Copenhagen Fire Brigade (Safety and emergency) has elaborated a proposal for establishing an independent department ”Security and Emergency” placed in relation to Copenhagen Fire Brigade or in a more central position in the municipal administration.
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Operative Services Fire service
Smoke-divers with special circuit breathing apparatus
Pioneer (rescue service) Rescue-divers
Accompanying damage fighting
Alarm Centre
Ambulance service Patient Transports Medical Ambulance Psychiatric turn-out
service Syringe Buss
“kanylebus” Safety-services Emergency planning