City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.

[Psycho4Bud]

City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.

PART 1: WARNING

I. GENERAL

Evacuation planning and actual implementation has to be based upon certain assumptions. It must be understood that the need to evacuate elements of the population can occur at any time, events resulting in evacuations occur with various amounts of lead time and every evacuation will be unique and offer unexpected challenges to those conducting the evacuation. Evacuations in response to hazardous material spills or sudden severe weather are provided with little or no warning, and often have to be accomplished after the fact, and in a disaster response environment. Throughout the Parish persons with special needs, require special consideration regarding notification, transportation, and sheltering. Resources of equipment, facilities and personnel are more difficult to locate and coordinate when an evacuation is required during late night or early morning hours. If possible, advance warning should be given so an evacuation can be coordinated. Adequate provisions should be maintained at all times in order to conduct a warning or alert of an area.

Certain hazards, such as a hurricane, provide some lead time for coordinating an evacuation. However, this can not be considered a certainty. Plus, the sheer size of an evacuation in response to an approaching hurricane creates the need for the use of community-wide warning resources, which cannot be limited to our City's geographical boundaries. Evacuation of major portions of our population, either in response to localized or citywide disasters, can only be accomplished if the citizens and visitors are kept informed of approaching threats on a timely schedule, and if they are notified of the need to evacuate in a timely and organized manner. If an evacuation order is issued without the mechanisms needed to disseminate the information to the affected persons, then we face the possibility of having large numbers of people either stranded and left to the mercy of a storm, or left in an area impacted by toxic materials.

In this day of high-speed communication and wide-spread availability of information, mechanisms do exist to transmit emergency related information to the vast majority of the community. For our most serious threat, hurricanes, information from the National Hurricane Center in Miami and our local office of the National Weather Service, can reach the general population through local governments and mass media outlets. It is the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Preparedness to guarantee that not only is the public alerted, but that other emergency response organizations and personnel are alert and in position to meet the real or potential threat.

Warning for an emergency requires notification at two levels: notification of public officials and response organizations and the warning of the general public. The mechanisms chosen to accomplish these critical events must be rapid in execution and comprehensive in application. This annex outlines the procedures which will be implemented for notifying the emergency response network of its activation, and of informing the general public of the potential or actual occurrence of life threatening events and hazards.

The extent and methods of warnings issued will be determined by the Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and are based upon the geographic area impacted. When events necessitate the immediate evacuation of threatened individuals, these decisions may be made by the on scene Incident Commander. Decisions affecting larger geographic areas will be made by the Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness in conjunction with the Superintendent of Fire and Superintendent of Police.

General evacuations that may result from an approaching hurricane will be ordered by the Mayor of the City, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness. The area affected by the warning may range from blocks and portions of neighborhoods, to the entire city.
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26

HMMMM...buses under water...seems that SOME Mayor wasn't following guidelines!!

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 09-08-2005. City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. PART 1: WARNING I. GENERAL Evacuation planning and actual implementation has to be based upon certain assumptions. It must be understood that the need to evacuate elements of the population can occur at any time, events resulting in evacuations occur with various amounts of lead time and every evacuation will be unique and offer unexpected challenges to those conducting the evacuation. Evacuations in response to hazardous Rating: 5

[eg420ne]

But what about the 4+ days that they where in the superdome and convention center, FEMA stop any aid from gettin there and it been reported that they did stop any help. They could of drop water, food....what took em 4+ days to help???

[eg420ne]

By the way did you see live press conf with VP Dickhead someone told him to go fuck yourself

[Psycho4Bud]

I can see that people are REALLY following this lil' article which was SUPPOSE to be the guideline set to ensure that people don't die! What the fuck, the Mayor was to busy jerking his meat so lets blame the Fed!!!

[eg420ne]

it seems like other are following the neoconvicts line of the blamegame as well..boy i wish we the people had control of the gov't

[Psycho4Bud]

it seems like other are following the neoconvicts line of the blamegame as well..boy i wish we the people had control of the gov't

The city did not follow their own directives...is that really so hard to comprehend??

[eg420ne]

fema did not follow their plan as well man whats so hard about that. where was fema plan to help the people out send water, food man thats not so hard is it but no they waited days to send help what they do recuse people and drop them off at the superdome convention center and schools with no water food and people killing each other and raping man whats so hard about that

[pisshead]

yeah, while they kicked out the local officials and cut communication lines...yeah, i'm sure they just had to cut the communication lines for everyones' safety. they had to make sure the police and fire couldn't communicate with each other...and they just had to turn away the trucks of water for everyone, to protect them.

[nicholasstanko]

By the way did you see live press conf with VP Dickhead someone told him to go fuck yourself

really?!?! when and where was this?


check out crooks and liars...theyd most likely have it.


www.crooksandliars.com

[Psycho4Bud]

fema did not follow their plan as well man whats so hard about that. where was fema plan to help the people out send water, food man thats not so hard is it but no they waited days to send help what they do recuse people and drop them off at the superdome convention center and schools with no water food and people killing each other and raping man whats so hard about that

Man, you and pisshead are stuck on this FEMA thing like a teenage boy to a playboy!!

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