Roles and Responsibilities Local Agencies and Responders

Roles and Responsibilities

Local Agencies and Responders

HSEMD, IDALS, CFSPH Animal Disease Emergency Local Response Preparedness, 2008

All Agencies• List resources available in area• Develop a local response plan• Contact information

– For responders– Agricultural resources

• Planning and training sessions– Identify areas of risk, response and personnel

needed, and local response plan• Develop a standard operating procedures

– Test and disseminate to all parties involved• Support response with available resources


Local Roles and Responsibilities

• Chief Elected or Appointed Official– Ensure public safety and welfare– Provide strategic guidance and resources– Coordinate resources within jurisdictions,

among adjacent jurisdictions, with private sector

• Emergency Manager– Oversees emergency programs and activities– Coordinate jurisdiction capabilities

• Department and Agency Heads– Perform emergency management functions

• Local emergency plans, provide response resources



• Individuals and Households– Reduce hazards in and around their homes– Prepare an emergency supply kit and

household emergency plan– Monitor emergency communications carefully– Volunteer with an established organization– Enroll in emergency response training courses



• Private Sector Organizations– Welfare and protection of employees– Maintain essential services

• Water, power, communications, transportation, medical care, security

– Stay involved in local crisis decision making process

• NGO – Nongovernmental Organizations– Provide sheltering, emergency food spplies,

counseling, etc.– Provide specialized services for those with

special needs


Local Emergency Management

• Coordinate all community supportand response resources– Personnel, logistical support, supplies, equipment,

vehicles, food, lodging and administrative support• Activate, staff and manage the County EOC• Coordinate communications

– Local agencies and responders• Coordinate delivery of information

– Coordinate with IDALS to ensure consistent messages• Record keeping and message flow activities• Support response and recovery

with all available resources


Law Enforcement• Establish quarantine perimeters

– Perimeter determined by State Veterinarian

– Possibly 6.2 miles or more• Enforce quarantine zones

and animal movement restrictions • Site security and conflict resolution• For suspected deliberate incidents,

– Coordinate and assist with investigation• Iowa Dept of Criminal Investigation• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Support response and recovery with all available resources


Fire Services

• Coordinate decontamination sitesfor vehicles, property, and personnel

• Aid in possible rescue situations



County Public Works/ Municipal/County Engineers

• Assist with perimeter development– Signage, barricades– Reroute traffic– Logistics support

• Provide technical assistance • Assist with animal disposal activities

– Equipment, personnel – Coordinate with State Veterinarian

and IDNR for acceptable locations• Support response and recovery

with all available resources


Environmental Health Department

• Assist with – Environmental permitting issues– Air and groundwater pollution/

contamination issues• Carcass disposal, disinfectants

– Vector (insect) control, when applicable– Management of lagoons, slurries and

other byproducts of animal operations• Support response and recovery with

all available resources


Local Government Officials

• The Local Government Officials are responsible for their respective city or county emergency operations, including assuring continuity of resources

• The County Board of Supervisors is responsible for all county emergency operations outside corporate city limits


Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

• Assist with responder healthand safety issues that arise

• Support response and recoverywith all available resources


Local DNR/County Conservation Officers

• Coordinate resources and serve as liaisons for the state offices

• Assist with animal disposal and needed resources



Human Services/County Health and Public Health Departments• Assist with community outreach

and education – Human health risks associated with response

• Coordinate and provide mental health services– Livestock producers, their families– Response staff– Others affected by the event



Iowa State University County Extension Personnel

• Assist with information dissemination to industries and public– Close coordination with IDALS public

information officer to ensure consistent messages



Livestock Industry Groups• Liaison to livestock industries affected by ADE• Identify individuals qualified to assist in response • Develop a list of qualified appraisers• Provide assistance to families affected• Provide support for disease control and

eradication activities• Assist in dissemination of information to

industries and public– Close coordination with IDALS public information officer

to ensure consistent messages• Support response and recovery with all available

resources


Acknowledgments

Development of this presentationwas funded by a grant from the

Iowa Homeland Securityand Emergency Management and

the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to the

Center for Food Security and Public Health at Iowa State University.

Contributing Authors: Glenda Dvorak, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

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