Snoqualmie Tribe

What we have done and where we are going.

Service Area

• The Snoqualmie EM Dept. serves:• The Reservation and 7 facilities• 600 Tribal Members• Approx. 60 Employees, growing to 900 by Fall

of 2008• The 7 facilities are spread across 3 cities• Many of the Tribal Members are spread out

over approx. 175 Sq. Miles

7 Facilities

• The 7 Facilities, including 2 medical clinics and the Tribal Administration buildings are served by 2 different Fire depts. And 3 different Law Enforcement agencies.

• Our EOC is located in my office w/back up power.

• We have an MOU with the City of Snoqualmie to share there EOC if ours is damaged, or shut down for some reason.

What are we working on now

• Currently installing Back up Gens. at our 2 Clinics and the Tribal Admin. building

• We have just received 5 more 800MHz. Radios and we will be getting them distributed in about 2 weeks to our Disaster Team members. We also have a few employees that take radios home with them and provide road reports on winter weather days, that I use to inform Members and employees, via e-mail about reporting to work.

What we are working on now• We also have VHF back up radios in 4 of our

facilities and a mobile unit in the Directors car.• We have just received a CEMNET radio from

state EMD, which will be installed in the new Mobile EOC, which we have applied for.

• We have 4 HAM radio technicians, with more ready to go thru the training, as soon as we can get one set up.

MRC & Disaster Team

• We have started our Medical Reserve Corp (MRC) and will be working closely with the NWTEMC-MRC as we train and build our MRC

• Our volunteer Disaster Team is in place and we are almost finished equipping them. They are continuing to take extra training like CERT and Red Cross shelter set-up.

Oil Spill Containment Boom

• The Disaster Team has been trained to deploy an 800 ft. oil containment boom, for spills in rivers and watersheds.

• We obtained the self contained trailer from EPA and co-trained with ESF&R, Fall City Fire, Duvall Fire and the KC Dive team.

• We have worked out all the call out protocols via an MOU.

Plans

• HIVA• EOP• Fleet Safety • Pan- Flu• Health and Human Services Response Plan• Resource Manual for local suppliers• Employee Call Down list for disasters and bad

weather days• Working on our CEMP, to tie it all together

Staying Involved

• Continuing to gather Best Practices from our partners. No need to re-invent things

• Regionally the Tribe is working with the following work groups:

• NWTEMC• EMAC• Sheltering/Staging/POD’s• VPAT/PH-SKC (IMOU on NWTEMC website)• Resource Typing

Sharing

• We need to continue to work together and share our ideas, plans and information.

• If there is anything that we can help with please let me know.

• We were able to have a DVD on preparedness produced, while it is Pan Flu centered there are many good ideas on it. We hope to have it on our website soon

• www.snoqualmienation.com

Prepare Now