North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment North

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment From October 1 -5, a large portion of South Carolina and southern North Carolina received over a foot of rain. Totals exceeded 20 inches across much of eastern South Carolina. Mount Pleasant, SC, a suburb of Charleston, observed an astounding 26. 88 inches of rain in just the first five days of October. Multiple dam breaches were reported and the city of Columbia reported a new 24 -hour record rainfall – 7. 77 inches between 11 a. m. Saturday and 11 a. m. Sunday – and was placed under a mandatory curfew Sunday night into Monday morning.

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment North Carolina Liaison On October 7 North Carolina Emergency Management deploys a Liaison Officer to assist South Carolina with assessing what they were going to need. The Liaison Officer worked closely with the Incident Commander and Operations Chief to put the wheels in motion for the AHIMT as well as NCNG Assets. Additionally, NCDPS forward deployed a PIO from the department to assist the South Carolina PIO. What did it take? South Carolina Emergency Management Division submitting a request through EMAC.

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment Emergency Management Assistance Compact • EMAC was proposed after 1992's Hurricane Andrew. • 104 th U. S. Congress in 1996 (PL-104 -321), EMAC has grown to become a nationwide system for providing mutual aid. • In 2004, EMAC was utilized during the response to Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. Through EMAC. • In 2005, EMAC was activated ten times in response to one wildfire, one flood, one tropical storm, two winter storms, and five hurricanes.

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment Emergency Management Assistance Compact HISTORY Terrorist Attacks 9/11/2001 Hurricane Isabel 1/1/2003 South Carolina "1, 000 yr Flood" Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne Emergency Management Assistance Compact Proposed 1/1/2004 1/1/1992 1994 10/9/2015 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2015 2014 1/1/1996 104 th U. S. Congress (PL-104 -321) passes 1. All 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands 2. Since 1999, EMAC has been activated 53 times 3. Katrina and Rita a. 65, 714 Personnel Deployed, $827. 7 M Estimated Cost Today

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina Deployment North Carolina Resources • North Carolina National Guard • Engineering Battalions • Information Analysis • UH-60 Blackhawk (NCHART) • Emergency Management • Type III AHIMT • State and Local Personnel • Liaison Section Chief • Logistics Section Chief • NCHART Coordinator • Individual Assistance • Public Information - DPS • Department of Agriculture • Department of Transportation

North Carolina – “Neighbor helping Neighbor” NCEM Liaison to South Carolina EOC Who, What, Where, When HOW? 10/7/2015 AHIMT to South Carolina EOC 10/9/2015 NCNG Engineering Brigade for damage assessment of roads, bridges and buildings 10/10/2015 PDA with Mc. Cormick County, SC 10/13/2015 PDA with Aiken County, SC 10/14/2015 PDA with Chesterfield County, SC 10/15/2015 Week 1 Flood Event PDA with Beaufort County, SC 10/1/2015 10/16/2015 2 NCHART to South Carolina Partial Team Demobilization Last member of team demobilized from JFO 10/4/2015 10/17/2015 10/26/2015 3 4 2015 5 Today

North Carolina Emergency Management EMAC Response 940 -RR-4227 T e p y III T IM A H Team members receive Mission Authorization from Deputy Director Joe Wright. Team members • Melissa Greene, Lenoir County (NCEM-EBO) • Roland Hamrick, Cleveland County (TEMP) • Brian Short, Vance County (Director) • Steve Newton, Wake County (Asst Director EM) • Gordon Deno, Wilson County (Director) • Matt Kemnitz, Wake County (NCEM-JFHQ) Team receives briefing from Ops Chief and Situation Unit Leader 10/10/2015 Team leaves North Carolina enroute to Columbia, SC 10/9/2015 Day 1 2 Team reports to SCEMD State EOC at 0630 am 10/10/2015 NCNG Engineering Brigade for damage assessment of roads, bridges and buildings 10/10/2015

North Carolina Emergency Management South Carolina SEOC Operations Emergency Support Functions • ESF-1 Transportation • ESF-2 Communications • ESF-3 Public Works and Engineering • ESF-4 Firefighting • ESF-6 Mass Care • ESF-7 Finance & Administration • ESF-8 Health and Medical Services • ESF-9 Search & Rescue • ESF-10 Hazardous Materials • ESF-11 Food Services • ESF-12 Energy • ESF-13 Law Enforcement • ESF-14 Initial Recovery and Mitigation • ESF-15 Public Information • ESF-16 Emergency Traffic Management • ESF-17 Animal/Agriculture Emergency Response • ESF-18 Donated Goods & Volunteer Services • ESF-19 Military Support • ESF-24 Business & Industry

North Carolina AHIMT Response Dennis Hancock continued support as Liaison between SCEMD and NCEM to provide more resources. Eventually leading to NCNG Assets, NC Agriculture (animal) and Logistics Section Chief. Positions for the AHIMT: • Melissa Greene / Matt Kemnitz Situation Unit • • Logistics Liaison – City of Columbia EOC Roland Hamrick / Brian Short Steve Newton / Gordon Deno Situation Unit: Greene and Kemnitz assisted the situation unit with gathering information from the ESF Leads in the SEOC as well as monitoring the county Web. EOC boards for updates. They assisted with producing reports for the governor and ensuring that the Operations Section Chief had information for the briefings. Greene was reassigned to the recovery section on October 12, while Kemnitz remained with the Situation Unit.

North Carolina AHIMT EMAC Response 940 -RR-4227 1. Open / Activate Situation Unit , contact communications and establish link with Incident Command/County EOCs. 2. Situation Unit Coordinator/ Member effectively use the system (EM-COP, Web. EOC) to track significant events and manage information. 3. Initiate SEOC OPS Log IN Web. EOC. 4. Assist with collection of information for a Situation Report. 5. Supports the implementation of situational awareness procedures for the SEOC to ensure all members have a common operating picture. 6. Review County Significant Events Board 7. Gather information necessary from EOC Sections, ESF positions, Incident Command Post (ICP) or other personnel to determine immediate needs and priorities for the Operations Section

North Carolina AHIMT Response Positions for the AHIMT: • Melissa Greene / Matt Kemnitz Situation Unit • Roland Hamrick / Brian Short Logistics • Steve Newton / Gordon Deno Liaison – City of Columbia EOC Logistics Section: Hamrick and Short assisted the Logistics Section Chief with monitoring county resource requests through Web. EOC. Duties included communicating with the counties to verify resources requested to ensure correct resources were being sent, providing updates on number for daily briefings. Hamrick and Short were reassigned to the recovery section on October 12.

North Carolina AHIMT Response Positions for the AHIMT: • Melissa Greene / Matt Kemnitz Situation Unit • Roland Hamrick / Brian Short Logistics • Steve Newton / Gordon Deno Liaison – City of Columbia EOC: Steve Newton was assigned to day operations and Gordon Deno was assigned to night operations. During the day operations the EOC was fully staffed and monitored citizen concerns, other departmental information such as schools, social media, and Web. EOC. Newton performed the duties of Liaison between the City of Columbia and the State EOC. Night operations was a skeleton crew with only Deno and one LEO. Deno continued monitoring citizen concerns, social media and forwarding any concerns to the State EOC. Newton was reassigned to the recovery section on October 13 and Deno was reassigned on October 14 th.

North Carolina AHIMT Recovery Preliminary Disaster Assessment(s) DR-4241 -SC PDA SCHEDULE FEMA PDA Team Lead: Mike Phillips, 678 -2138 State PDA Team Lead Chris Newton 205 -541 -2432 Date Applicant Location 9: 00 AM Mc. Cormick County 212 August Rd. Ext. , Mc. Cormick Threshold $35, 510. 79 RPA Yes 1: 00 PM Aiken County 1930 University Parkway, Suite 10, Aiken $586, 108. 32 Inc 9: 00 AM Chesterfield County 109 Scotch St. , Chesterfield $164, 923. 29 Yes 1: 00 PM Beaufort County 2555 Sea Island Parkway Saint Helena Island $613, 461. 66 Unk Information forwarded Notes Yes Yes Lessons Learned / Take Aways: 1. County EM’s had little to no information on exactly what they could use to make thresholds. 2. Consistent information between FEMA and Recovery Section at SEOC was not being relayed to county EM’s. 3. “After” the fact information to the NC Team performing PDA’s.

North Carolina National Guard South Carolina Deployment Elements of NCNG 505 th EN BN (Engineering) for damage assessment of roads, bridges and buildings; NCNG 130 th MEB (Headquarters)

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