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Alberta-A Province Prepared
Alberta Emergency Management Agency-
Provincial Services
Alberta-A Province Prepared
Outline
• Concepts and Principles
• Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR)
• Hazardous Materials-CBRNER
• Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR)
• Joint Provincial Emergency Response capacity
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Concepts and Principles
• There are clearly response requirements that outstrip the capacity of a single community or regional partnership to develop and/or deliver
• The Province has an essential role in ensuring this capacity exists and is available when needed
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Concepts and Principles
• Many ways to deliver this-partnerships, agreements, direct service provision, etc.
• Must be collaborative approach
• There are other service delivery groups and agencies that must be linked to community response
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Concepts and Principles
• Whatever is built must support and join up local response agencies to higher level skills and equipment to ensure mission success
• Must identify a clear role for the Province
• Must link or “join up” all aspects of the response including community, provincial and federal
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GSAR
• Integrate GSAR community into the emergency management framework
– Revise GoA Support Plan for SAR (1990)– Establish GSAR Steering Committee– Develop Working Groups
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Agency Support to GSAR
– Develop and Test Protocols and Policies for GSAR that harmonize with CERP, JPERT
– Integrate a GSAR Database into the Emergency Management Decision Support System (ARRC)
– Incorporate training needs assessments and stakeholder input to support GSAR training program
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Hazardous Materials
• Includes CBRNER
• No Provincial strategy/policy that will ensure an effective deployment of resources
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Hazardous Materials
• Focus has been on CBRNER but the real day to day risk is a major Haz Mat incident
• Capacity exists in varying degrees in communities across Alberta with no link to ensure response outside their jurisdictions
• We have communities with identified needs trying to establish capacities likely beyond their ability to sustain
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Hazardous Materials
• No costing formula
• Needs to involve ASERT, EUB, etc
• Must link all levels of response-first response-community, industry, and provincial response
• We are pulling a working team together to evaluate the issue, assess the risk and develop recommendations to address it
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Haz Mat Review• Evaluate the current CBRNE response
system in Alberta and identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen capacities.
• Develop recommendations for presentation to the Managing Director of AEMA for systemic improvements to include areas such as funding, service delivery, training, and clarification of the GoA role.
Alberta-A Province Prepared
HUSAR• Is much more than a building collapse
capacity• Offers up logistics and command support
functions to a wide range of emergency and non-emergency activities
• Might even be looked at as a recruitment and retention tool
• Can be scaled to support large or smaller events
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HUSAR
• Is a critical provincial response asset
• Is a center of excellence that can help improve the capacity of day to day routine responses across Alberta by engaging other response agencies in the system
• We have been observing other models to learn what the Provincial relationship to the capacity might look like
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HUSAR
• Missing partner has been the province
• We are working with CFD, STARS and other new potential partners to develop this capacity and make it available to all Albertans
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Post Incident Analysis
• New role and new ways
• Current methodologies and reporting systems don’t capture everything nor do they provide the information needed
• SIITeam
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Post Incident Analysis
• Broader Base
• All Incident
• We are pulling together a working group to look at all aspects of this.
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JPERC
• Joint Provincial Emergency Response Capacity
• A joined up response capacity addressing key response areas using existing response agencies, industry, GOA Ministries and others to ensure an effective, coordinated response to events in Alberta
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JPERC
• A partnership
• Responding to events, emergency and non-emergent
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JPERC
• Making effective use of key response capacities
• Joining up the Fire and Emergency Management System
• This is what we are building, with you for Albertans and our guests.
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JPERC
• Supporting and enhancing community capacity– Flood response,– Wildfire response– DG-CBRNE– HUSAR– GSAR– ????
Alberta-A Province Prepared
Questions?
• http://www.aema.alberta.ca/
