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Bk 98 - Earthquake Operational Plan Flashcards

1
Q

Seismologists predict a ____ to ____% probability, of a magnitude 7+ earthquake in Los Angeles, before 2024.

A

80 to 90%

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For any earthquake causing significant damage within the City of Los Angeles

-Emergency Operations Board will normally be convened
-Emergency Operations Center will be activated
-Department Command will be established
-field operations may be controlled under an ____ Command structure.

A

Area

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During a local emergency, the ____ is the DIRECTOR of the Emergency Operations Organization. (EOO)

A

Mayor

With the advice of the Emergency Operations Board (headed by the Chief of Police)), the Mayor exercises full authority over operations of the various Emergency Operations Organization (EOO) divisions.

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The Emergency Operations Board (EOB) manages the affairs of the City’s Emergency Operations Organization (EOO) and issues instructions to the chiefs of the EOO Divisions

The ________ is the Chairperson of the EOB

A

Chief of Police

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The functions of the Emergency Operations Organization (EOO) divisions, during an emergency or disaster, are coordinated through the City’s ________.

A

Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

The EOC operates under the Standard Emergency Management System (SEMS)

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The EOC Director will normally be from the ______ Department, with the Deputy Director coming from the other department.

A

Fire or Police Dept

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The EOC may be activated at Level I, II, or III depending on event. It WILL be activated for an earthquake event at full Level ____ capacity.

A

Level III

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Department Command will normally be established in the __________.

A

Department Operations Center (DOC)

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Incident Management Teams (IMT) may be required for effective, efficient emergency operations and to support an Area Command Organization.

An IMT may be defined as a group of individuals assembled to fill necessary _____ positions and command an emergency incident or multiple incidents within a specified area

A

ICS

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Area Command Chart:

A
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Emergency Operations Organization chart:

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Emergency Operations Center LVL 3 Staffing chart:

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Emergency Operations Center activation matrix:

A
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The Department will initiate Earthquake Emergency Mode (EEM) any time a detectable earthquake tremor is felt.

It will remain in that mode until either the _______ or ______ determines otherwise

A

-Fire Chief

Or

-Deputy Department Commander (DDC)

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Earthquake response is divided into what THREE (3) operational modes?

A

-NORMAL Earthquake Operational Mode

-EXPANDED Earthquake Operational Mode

-DISASTER Mode

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The Department will be in the _____ operational mode for earthquakes that are minor and cause LITTLE or NO DAMAGE.

A

normal earthquake

-BCs will conduct survey of their companies
-Company Officers will check-in with BC and survey district. (Normally NON-EMERGENCY)
-OVB and OCB Assistant Commanders advise MFC of impacted areas
-OVB and OCB may establish Area Command

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The Department will go into the _______ operational mode for earthquakes that are felt throughout the area, cause SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE and INJURIES, and/or require the commitment of a significant number of resources.

MFC and/or the DDC will make this determination.

A

expanded earthquake

-Company Officers check-in with their BC and survey district. (EMERGENCY RESPONSE mode, except as directed by BC)
-If Company Officers find it necessary to stop at a significant event, update BC with size-up and request resources.
-ONLY STOP IF direct knowledge of lives that could be saved

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The Department will go into _____ Mode when a significant earthquake strikes that will potentially IMPACT INFRASTRUCTURE and cause WIDE SPREAD DISASTER.

Commanders shall implement strict constraint and resource conservation UNTIL the size and scope of the disaster IS KNOWN.

A

Disaster mode

-Resource tracking will be accomplished at the Battalion/Zone Commander level.
-Company officers check-in with BC and survey their districts (emergency response mode, except as directed by BC)
-If Company Officers find it necessary to stop at a significant event, update BC with size-up and request resources.
-ONLY STOP IF direct knowledge of lives that could be saved

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Companies will follow a pre-designated route, paying specific attention to buildings with _______.

They will also survey the impact on INFRASTRUCTURE.

All identified problems should be DOCUMENTED and significant problems shall be REPORTED immediately to ___________.

A

-A high potential for Life loss

-The Battalion Commander

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Company Officer and Battalion/Zone Commanders will be responsible to evaluate and prioritize incidents, based on the PROBABILITY of significant INJURIES or POTENTIAL for LIVES SAVED.

When a company feels compelled to stop at an incident, the BATTALION/ZONE COMMANDER shall be notified immediately, with the following information:

A

-Location
-Situation
-Potential for lives or property saved
-Additional resources needed
-Expected DURATION

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If unable to leave quarters, company officers shall notify __________ and make every attempt to become available for response as soon as possible.

If quarters cannot be secured when vacated, arrangements shall be made for a SECURITY WATCH (utilize police if possible).

A

their Battalion/Zone Commander

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Strategic priorities during earthquake mode shall be:

A
  1. Protecting life
  2. Protecting property

3.Protecting the environment

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23
Q

During earthquake mode, MFC status may be compromised. Therefore, all units shall begin documentation of all actions AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Documentation should be accomplished using ______.

A

ICS 214 form

This will assist in reconstruction of Department actions, development of incident histories and future analysis.

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When companies vacate stations in Earthquake Emergency Mode, Battalion/Zone Commanders will initiate a status check of their stations/resources starting with the LOWEST numbered Battalion assigned to the Bureau Tactical Channel.

Stations will check-in to the Battalion Commander in numerical sequence, beginning with the LOWEST numbered station. The check-in will be conducted via _______ (preferred) or ________.

A

-MDC (preferred)
-Bureau Tactical channel

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What are the bureau tactical channels during earthquake mode?

A

Operations Central Bureau Tac Channel LFD - T1

Operations South Bureau Tac Channel LFD - T2

Operations Valley Bureau Tac Channel LFD - T3

Operations West Bureau Tac Channel LFD - T13

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If the battalion commander is unable to fulfill the duties of completing the status check, who will be assume this responsibility?

A

Station Commander of the Battalion headquarters station

If the Assistant Bureau Commander is unable to fulfill any of their duties, the Commanders of the lowest numbered Battalions in the Valley and Central Bureaus will fill in.
Batt 10 for OVB
Batt 1 for OCB

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Ground units should attempt to complete their drive-through surveys as quickly as possible, consistent with safety and thoroughness.

When fire companies are not available, Area and Battalion Commanders may utilize the following to complete surveys:

A

-special duty personnel
-recalled personnel
-LAPD officers
-in some cases, select volunteers (CERT members),

(These individuals may also assist with evacuation, suppression of small fires, or minor rescues; provide support for Battalion or Area Commanders; or gather and compile incident information)

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Firefighting may be done in a “quick-knock-down” mode to allow companies to be as efficient as possible. Salvage and overhaul operations may be de-emphasized or eliminated.

During a major event with numerous, simultaneous fires, companies should only attack fires that are:

A

-life threatening
-spreading
-have conflagration potential
-create a hazardous release
-essential service occupancies.

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29
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Earthquake mode:

Many people may be trapped in elevators. These types of incidents should be prioritized, based on the life hazard, potential dangers, duration of entrapment and extrication, and the number and condition of the people involved.

Firefighters should shut off _____ and ______ to badly damaged buildings to eliminate potential sources of fire.

A

gas and electric services

30
Q

Rescue ambulances (RA) that are remote from their quarters will respond to their designated safe location ASAP. They shall make contact with their Station Commander to report their status, activity, and condition.

Information may be transmitted via radio, MDC, or _________

A

-cell-phone

(Station Commander then reports RA’s status to Battalion)

31
Q

Earthquake Mode:

Paramedic (ALS) ambulances will assist in surveying ________.
BLS ambulances will report to their Battalion Commander.

A

local hospitals (per pre-planned worksheets).

32
Q

Earthquake Mode:

EMS Captains shall report their status to the administrative Battalion Commander, immediately following the station where they are housed (may also be handled by station Captain).

Operationally, they will then report to the ______ Commander.

A

Area Commander

(EMS Captains will assist in surveying the operational status of local hospitals and other medical facilities, to determine bed availability for critical and non-critical patients, and to liaison with the L. A. County Medical Alert Center (MAC).)

33
Q

Earthquake Mode:

If MFC is non-operational, who assumes responsibility to prioritize incidents and utilize available resources as effectively as possible?

A

Battalion and Area Commanders

34
Q

Earthquake Mode:

When there are multiple injury situations, EMS personnel will operate under the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Reference ____, Management of Multiple Casualty Incidents.

A

Reference 519, Management of MCI

35
Q

_______ is a triage system acronym that provides guidelines for pre-hospital care personnel to rapidly classify victims into one of four categories:

Deceased: Patients who do not have spontaneous respiration after repositioning the airway.

Immediate: Patients that exhibit severe respiratory, circulatory, or neurological symptoms.

Delayed: Patients that are neither immediate nor minor, but will require a gurney and medical treatment upon arrival at the hospital.

Minor: Patients that are ambulatory.

A

START

Simple
Triage
And
Rapid
Treatment

36
Q

Ambulance personnel can access the ______ system or ________ for information on hospital status and bed availability

A

Reddi-Net system or Medical Alert Center (MAC)

37
Q

Los Angeles County has _______ Centers that are capable of handling the surge capacity through additional medical/surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, and large tent shelters.

A

Disaster Resource Centers (DRC)

38
Q

__________ are temporary medical treatment locations, established to provide emergency medical care to mass casualties, in a non-hospital setting.

These will serve as areas of immediate care and as patient staging areas for transport to hospitals that can provide definitive care.

A

Field Treatment Sites (FTS)

LAFD involvement should be of a temporary nature, the goal is for members of the medical community and organizations such as the National Guard or Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) to staff and maintain the FTS. It may take 12 to 24 hours for DMATs to arrive on-scene.

39
Q

Emergency personnel encountering disaster fatalities should attach a tag or label to the dead body with the following information:

A

-Unit or individual finding the body
-Date and Time found
-Exact location found, including floor and room number (if known)
-If identified visually, the name and address of the decedent and of the identifying party
-If the body is contaminated, so state, including the type of contamination

40
Q

The Department’s overall responsibilities for a Hazmat incident during earthquake mode are:

A
  1. Assessment of the incident.
  2. Notification of the proper agencies.
  3. Emergency measures to minimize the effect of the hazardous condition on people, the environment, and property.
41
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When a search begins, the entry point should be marked by a diagonal line, which will be crossed when the team leaves the area.

Teams should identify themselves and mark the date and time the search was complete, and list any known hazards in the area.

Locations of victims should be marked and documented, and the Coroner should be notified before any dead bodies are removed.

A
42
Q

When an earthquake is felt, the MFC BC may switch to a degraded mode until the extent of DAMAGE is KNOWN and IMPACT AREAS are IDENTIFIED.

Initial consideration should be RESOURCE CONSERVATION until additional information is received.

MFC is responsible for activation of the “Earthquake Emergency Mode” and shall simulcast a Department wide notification to all field units on Channels ___, ____ and ____.

A

4, 7, and 8

43
Q

If MFC can continue to dispatch Department resources, dispatch will be done at different levels (known as dispatch conditions or “DISCON”):

Which dispatch mode is normal operating condition?

A

DISCON I

44
Q

If MFC can continue to dispatch Department resources, dispatch will be done at different levels (known as dispatch conditions or “DISCON”):

The most probable situations requiring the Dept. to operate in DISCON II are when resources are depleted due to:

A

-MULTIPLE Major Incidents
-EXTREME WEATHER Conditions
-MINOR Earthquake

DISCON II will:
-Reduce initial response by conserving engine companies
-Limit response to any structure fire to an “A” assignment
-EMS response will be reduced in many cases to a single company or unit (designed to conserve engine companies)

45
Q

If MFC can continue to dispatch Department resources, dispatch will be done at different levels (known as dispatch conditions or “DISCON”):

The Department will go to DISCON ____ when MFC is being inundated with 9-1-1 calls. The dispatch floor is unable to keep up with incoming calls and priority dispatching must be implemented to gain control. Department resources are depleted due to:

◾ Multiple “Major” incidents ◾ Extreme Weather Conditions ◾ Major Earthquake

A

DISCON III

DISCON III will:

-Reduce initial resource response to a single engine on most dispatches
-Identify “no-send” incident types
-Limit EMS responses to a single unit on most EMS incident types.

46
Q

When a citizen calls the Department and requests assistance, the Department has a duty to respond.

This legal responsibility can CAN BE BROKEN by direct notification to the caller that “the Fire Department is in the ______ Mode and will not respond to your call, until the situation is known.”

A

Disaster Mode

47
Q

If MFC is not fully operational, OVB and OCB Assistant Bureau Commanders will immediately establish Area Command and assume responsibility for all operations within that geographic Bureau.

Companies will report their status to ______ Commanders who – in turn – will pass the information on to the Area Commander.

A

Battalion/Zone Commanders

48
Q

If Area Command is dispatching resources, they will dispatch resources on which channel?

A

On the Area Command channel assigned to that Bureau:

OCB Channel 1
OSB Channel 2
OVB Channel 3
OWB Channel 13

IF MFC IS NON-OPERATIONAL, THERE WILL BE NO EMERGENCY TRIGGER FUNCTIONALITY.

49
Q

If operational, the _______________ offers many additional citywide talkgroups for non-emergency communications (logistics, command, staging, etc.)

A

Simulcast Trunked Radio System (STRS)

50
Q

If radio coverage has been compromised, incident or area commanders shall contact MFC and request the dispatch of _______ to deploy a portable repeater.

A

Fire Communications and Dispatch Support Section (FCDSS)

51
Q

Station Commanders should pre-plan staging areas for:
-personnel and apparatus
-nearby helispots
-anticipated locations of field treatment sites
-sheltering locations with sanitation facilities.

A description of these locations should be included in the ______ Packets where it can be checked and updated on a regular basis.

A

Earthquake

52
Q

The authority for Recall must be obtained from the Fire Chief or the _________.

A

Deputy Department Commander (DDC).

53
Q

The priority methods for notification of recall are:

A

Teletype / Station Audio

Text message / Email

Telephone

Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) / News Media

54
Q

If a member is recalled and unable to reach their place of assignment, they shall report to the nearest ____________ (every attempt should be made to have necessary PPE).

A

Battalion or Area Command Post

55
Q

Volunteers:

The first priority of the field commander is to attempt to ensure the safety of the volunteers. The second priority is to determine the type of volunteers, on-scene.

The two types of volunteers are:

A

◾ Convergent Volunteer – This volunteer is one who appears at the scene of a disaster, not as part of an organized response effort, and whose skill level is unknown.

◾ Organized Volunteer – This volunteer is part of an organized effort and has been trained to a specific level of competency. Members of the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) fall into this category.

56
Q

The City Personnel Department, Occupational Safety Office (OSO) is responsible for coordinating the utilization of volunteers in Los Angeles.

During a designated emergency, this resource may be accessed through the City _________.

A

Emergency Operations Center. (EOC)

Designated OSO employees are assigned vehicles or emergency trailers that contain emergency tools and equipment such as first aid kits, survival kits, floodlights, propane stoves, and portable toilet kits.

57
Q

Department members may encounter volunteers working under the auspices of the City Personnel Department or the Mayor’s Volunteer Corps.

Those working out of the Mayor’s office will have identification cards (hanging around their neck).

Those from the Personnel Department will have helmets and vests colored _______. These volunteers are not normally utilized until the second or third day of a disaster.

A

Orange helmets and orange vests

58
Q

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members are taught to handle problems in their OWN AREAS AND THEN to respond to the local BATTALION headquarters where they will receive direction from the BATTALION COMMANDER. They are assigned GREEN helmets and vests.

CERT members have been trained to:
-extinguish small fires
-perform basic first aid
-do light search and rescue
-organize themselves under ICS principles

Department members may utilize CERT members to assist in emergency operations if?

A

done safely and with proper oversight.

(They should not be placed in dangerous situations nor asked to do anything they have not been trained to do.)

59
Q

Statistics have shown that approximately 90% of live rescues from earthquake damaged structures are accomplished by?

A

untrained spontaneous rescuers

60
Q

Should the normal radio system fail to operate properly, amateur radio operators can relay important information. A system has been established whereby amateur radio operators will respond to Zone and Area/Bureau Command Posts.

The ______ Program has fixed radio stations at the EOC, DOC, FS 5, Old FS 77 (ACS Valley Bureau Station), FS 88 and FS 109.

A

ACS Program

(Auxiliary Communication Service)

61
Q

Any incident where the number of victims and types of injuries exceed the capabilities of first responders is known as a?

A

Multi Casualty Incident

62
Q

The basic components of ICS are the Incident Commander (IC), the General Staff, and the Command Staff.

  1. Who makes up the General Staff?
  2. Who makes up the Command Staff?
A
  1. General Staff:
    -Finance/Administration Section
    -Logistics Section
    -Operations Section
    -Planning Section
  2. Command Staff:
    -Information Officer
    -Liaison Officer
    -Safety Officer
63
Q

________ are normally responsible for the implementation of Area Command (with authority from the DDC).

A

LAFD Assistant Chiefs

(Geographic Bureau Deputy Chiefs may assume the role of Agency Administrator for their Bureau as needed.)

64
Q

When MFC becomes aware that an earthquake was felt, anywhere in the City, the Department will immediately go into the Earthquake Emergency Mode. MFC shall simulcast the notification to all LAFD fire stations, and announce their operational capability.

Companies will immediately vacate quarters and ________.

A

respond to their pre-designated safe location.

(Companies will OPERATE from their pre-designated safe location, pending direction from the Battalion Commander.)

65
Q

Individual incidents that occur within each Zone Commander’s area of responsibility may be handled by single resources and are referred to as ________.

A

“incidents”

66
Q

Impacted Area and Battalion Commanders shall prioritize incidents and dispatch _________.

A

the minimal amount of resources possible

67
Q

If any station does not checkin, the _______ will ensure that the companies assigned to that station are accounted for.

A

Battalion Commander

68
Q

After an earthquake, if there is no radio traffic from MFC, _____ will be responsible for ensuring that MFC is safe

A

Battalion 1

69
Q

Operating from their field command post established at a pre-designated safe location, ________ will ensure that district surveys are completed AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

A

Battalion Commanders

70
Q

Hospitals/Disaster Centers

For a catastrophic mass causality event, the standard of care will be MINIMAL life support and patient holding for ___ to ___ days.

A

2-3 days

71
Q

Disaster resource centers

Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) deploy to disaster sites with sufficient supplies to sustain themselves for a period of ____ hours while providing medical care at a fixed or temporary medical care site.

A

72 hours

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