204.01A Hazardous Materials Evacuation

Question 0

Site evacuation involves a small number of citizens that are easily evacuated and collected upwind a at the perimeter area. What are the general holding times?

Answer 0

Less than an hour or two

Question 1

What are the three levels of evacuation?

Answer 1

Site evacuation

Intermediate level

Large-scale evacuation

Question 2

An incident involving _______ has a higher probability of causing an evacuation of an affected area than any other incident.

Answer 2

Hazardous materials

Question 3

Intermediate level evacuation normally affects how many citizens? How long will they remain out of the area?

Answer 3

Fewer than 100

2 to 4 hours or more

Question 4

What will dictate the speed of evacuation?

Answer 4

The speed of the developing hazard

Question 5

During in-place sheltering command may need to provide instructions to affect public on what?

Answer 5

Shutting down cooling systems

Sealing their building

Question 6

How do you determine what shelters can be utilized during incidents?

Answer 6

CAD INFO SHELTERS

Red disaster operational manual

Question 7

Evacuate persons from the area of _______ first.

Answer 7

Greatest danger

Question 8

Who can be used for evacuation notices?

Answer 8

News media

Question 9

Evacuate those at greatest risk first. Evacuate the greatest _____ area next.

Answer 9

Concentrated areas

Question 10

What equipment on the truck can be used to speed up the alert process when making on site evacuation?

Answer 10

Sirens

Airhorns

PA system

Question 11

When making face-to-face notifications, what instructions should be given?

Answer 11

There’s been a hazardous material incident

You are in danger

Leave immediately

Go to the shelter (location)

Take ( ) route out of your area

Do you need transportation?

Provide the customer with evacuation instructions

Question 12

What items should crewmembers instructions citizens to take with them?

Answer 12

Wallet/purse

Keys

Money

Eyeglasses

Medication

Proper clothing

Pets

Question 13

When making notification of evacuation over PA used 3 five-seconds blasts of siren while on the YELP setting, followed by instructions over the PA, with it turned to maximum volume. Proceed slowly, initiating notifications at the beginning of each block and each ______ after that.

Answer 13

50 yards

Question 14

Once each assigned grid of objectives is complete, report completion of the evacuation to the_______?

Answer 14

Evacuation branch/sector officer

Question 15

What is the evacuation triage philosophy?

Answer 15

We’ll evacuate the greatest number for the greatest benefit

Question 16

Some citizens may refuse to leave. What are some methods of persuasion to leave?

Answer 16

Be in uniform, wear your helmet

Wear SCBA and facepiece

Ask for next of kin

Write down the next of kin information

Question 17

Anytime more than _____ persons are evacuated, the duty deputy advises the city manager of the situation.

Answer 17

10

Question 18

Provide progress reports every _____ minutes to the EOC, unless the EOC requires more frequent or less frequent reports.

Answer 18

30 minutes

Question 19

Returning evacuees to their homes will be the sole responsibility of whom?

Answer 19

FD incident commander or the EOC staff in operation

Question 20

Large-scale evacuations involves how many people and in what time frame?

Answer 20

Thousands of citizens

Hours if not days

Question 21

During this level of evacuation, the city EOC will be opened to support the evacuation and site operations?

Answer 21

Large-scale evacuation

Question 22

The decision to evacuate is to be considered when?

Answer 22

Quickly and early

Question 23

In-place sheltering can be considered for what situations?

Answer 23

Material has been identified as having a low or moderate level of health risk

Material had been released from its container and is now dissipating

Leaks can be controlled rapidly and before evacuation can be completed

Exposure to the product is expected to be short-term and of low health risk

The public can be adequately protected by staying indoors

Question 24

PD responsibilities include what?

Answer 24

Provide a ranking officer to the command post

Provide a ranking officer to the evacuation sector/branch

Provide a communication system for police resources

Traffic control traffic routing

Perimeter security

Evacuation zone security

Question 25

Once long-term sheltering is in place, who will open and manage shelters?

Answer 25

Red Cross

Question 26

The Red Cross will need up to how many hours to get adequate resources and personnel to the shelter sites?

Answer 26

3 hours

Question 27

What type of commitment from PD will be required to accomplish evacuation?

Answer 27

Large commitment

Question 28

Individual refusals will be handled how?

Answer 28

Left to fend for themselves

Question 29

If the evacuees do choose to stay what should be done?

Answer 29

Documentation