Item 26 - Adoption of the City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan

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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan Part I Basic Plan authorities. The Operational Area will serve as the focal point for information exchange and resource requests among all jurisdictions within the County, and is responsible for: • Sharing information among Operational Area jurisdictions and with the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Southern Regional Emergency Operations Center (REOC). • Serving as the mutual aid coordination point for Operational Area jurisdictions seeking resource support from within or outside the Orange County Operational Area. • Identifying and coordinating with resources outside the mutual aid system for the benefit of Operational Area jurisdictions. • Identifying the best strategy for sharing, acquiring, and/or distributing resources and personnel in the Operational Area, based on its overall perspective of the needs of all involved Operational Area jurisdictions. • Coordinating regional resources to serve all Operational Area jurisdictions when a single collective approach is more efficient than individual efforts spread among jurisdictions. • Identifying opportunities to improve the efficient use of response resources and personnel amongst Operational Area jurisdictions. The Orange County Operational Area is within the California Office of Emergency Services Southern Administrative Region and Mutual Aid Region I (Figure 118 above). The Southern Region Emergency Management Organization has responsibility to support all southern California Operational Areas in identifying and prioritizing needs throughout the region, brokering resources among Operational Areas and communicating with other regional and state authorities. The Governor and the Cal OES Director, assisted by State agency directors and staff, constitute the State Emergency Management Organization, and will coordinate statewide operations to include the provision of mutual aid and other support to local jurisdictions and the re -direction of essential resources as required. 3.5 Mutual Aid and Resource Management 3.5.1 Mutual Aid and Resource Management Systems The California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement, developed under the California Emergency Services Act, is the basis for the statewide mutual aid system, which is designed to ensure that adequate resources, facilities and other support are provided to jurisdictions whenever their own resources are inadequate to cope with an emergency. The Master Mutual Aid Agreement creates a formal structure wherein each jurisdiction retains control of its own facilities, personnel and resources, but may also receive or render assistance to other jurisdictions within the state. This statewide mutual aid system, operating within the framework of the Master Mutual Aid Agreement, allows for the progressive mobilization of resources to and from emergency response agencies, local governments, operational areas, regions and state agencies with the intent to provide requesting agencies with the resources they need. The general flow of mutual aid resource requests and resources within mutual aid systems consists of continuously expanding loops until sufficient resources are acquired, as depicted in the diagram below. 121