ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY - 2005 UASI

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Attachment A FY05 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM 2. Ensure operational viability of mass care shelters and medical treatment facilities. Mass care shelter planning should be coordinated with the American Red Cross. The public must be made aware of where these shelters are, and procedures for entrance. • Revise or update current plans to include the provision of hazardous /toxic substances portal and point detection and monitoring, decontamination and public safety support to mass care shelters and medical treatment facilities by designated personnel and equipment. • Consider the establishment of reception centers, which consolidate monitoring, triage, decontamination, and registration of affected persons. • Identify agent antidotes by types and dosage volumes and planning for storage, dispersal, and dispensing, and awareness of how agent antidote dosages may impact the health of vulnerable populations (i.e. immune - suppressed individuals, children). • Ensure that alternate medical treatment facilities have immediately available electric power, water and sewer, environmental controls, and other necessary infrastructure support to become operationally viable on short notice. 3. Emergency Alerting System /Emergency Public Information. Review and revise planning for pre -event emergency public information message content scripting /templates and arrangements for multiple modes of message dissemination. Ensure that the distinctive characteristics of radiological, biological, and chemical agents are reflected in template messages and that self - help contamination avoidance and decontamination actions are also included. 4. NIMS Compliance. Compliance with NIMS is a condition for award of this grant. NIMS is a comprehensive incident response system, developed by DHS as required by HSPD -5. The NIC will oversee all aspects of NIMS, including the development of NIMS - related standards and guidelines and the provision of guidance and support to incident management and responder organizations as they implement the system. The NIC also will validate compliance with NIMS and NRP responsibilities, standards and requirements. Major components of NIMS include incident command and management, preparedness, resource management, communications and information management, supporting technologies, and ongoing management and maintenance. See Section IV. National Initiatives for NIMS guidance. Implementation of NIMS concepts, procedures, and functions in MMRS jurisdictions includes the following activities regarding each MMRS operational area: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY I OFFICE FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS 95