Like the
ABC's used in EMS for every patient; airway, breathing and circulation. What
are the first three most important things an emergency manager must know to
begin their response to any disaster? Are there three over arching pieces of
information that should guide emergency managers in the initial hours or days
of a response.
In my book
using the Observe Orient Decide Act (OODA Loop) as my guide I came up with What
do you have? What do you need to do? What do you need to do it? Repeat.
Repeating the Three Questions would keep everyone in a constant state of
evaluation until a clear picture has been established. My objective was try to
find out how to begin. What do you do every time no matter how big or small the
incident (a tornado or tsunami or earthquake) in the first minutes, hours or
days to be able to properly size up and respond to an event. But I still feel
as if there is a better more complete set of questions or basic principals out
there.
Part of the
answer has to be the ICS/EOC interface. The people with their feet on the
ground are your only assets in the beginning. One of the answers it would seem
to me is: what assets are still capable of responding and what are they doing.
This would include fire, law enforcement, public works, hospitals etc. What is
their condition and have the been impacted by the incident and have they begun
operations. This would be reported by the IC or if the incident was large
enough multiple IC's. It goes back to the old question we used in the field
when we walked up on an incident. What you got?
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