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Table 5. Responses to a WMD Incident and the Participants Involved
Events
Participants
1. Incident occurs.
2. 911 center receives calls, elicits information, dispatches first
responders, relays information to first responders prior to their
arrival on scene, makes notifications, and consults existing
databases of chemical hazards in the community, as required.
911 Center, first responders.
3. First responders arrive on scene and make initial assessment.
Establish Incident Command and set up Command Post in an
area that is safe from potential secondary hazards/devices.
Determine potential weapon of mass destruction (WMD) incident
and possible terrorist involvement; warn additional responders to
the scene of potential secondary hazards/devices. Perform any
obvious rescues as incident permits. Establish security perimeter
and credentialing. Determine needs for additional assistance.
Begin triage and treatment of victims. Begin hazard agent
identification.
Incident Command: Fire, law enforcement,
emergency medical services (EMS), and HazMat
unit(s).
4. Incident Command manages incident response; notifies medical
facility, emergency management (EM), and other local
organizations outlined in Emergency Operations Plan (EOP);
requests notification of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Field Office.
Incident Command.
5. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) assesses information, supports
local law enforcement, and determines WMD terrorist incident
has occurred. Notifies Strategic Information and Operations
Center (SIOC), activates Joint Operations Center (JOC),
coordinates the crisis management aspects of WMD incident, and
acts as the Federal on-scene manager for the U.S. government
while FBI is Lead Federal Agency (LFA).
FBI Field Office: SAC.
6. Local Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activated. Supports
Incident Command, as required by Incident Commander (IC).
Coordinates consequence management activities (e.g., mass
care). Local authorities declare state of emergency. Coordinates
with State EOC and State and Federal agencies, as required.
Requests State and Federal assistance, as necessary.
Local EOC: Local agencies, as identified in basic
EOP.
7. Strategic local coordination of crisis management activities. Brief
President, National Security Council (NSC), and Attorney
General. Provide Headquarters (HQ) support to JOC. Domestic
Emergency Support Team (DEST) may be deployed. Notification
of FEMA by FBI/SIOC triggers FEMA actions.
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SIOC: FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ),
Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), Department of
Defense (DoD), Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
8. Manage criminal investigation. Establish Joint Information
Center (JIC). State and local agencies and FEMA ensure
coordination of consequence management activities.
FBI; other Federal, State, and local law enforcement
agencies. Local EM representatives. FEMA, DoD,
DOE, HHS, EPA, and other Federal Response Plan
(FRP) agencies, as required.
9. State EM supports local consequence management. Brief
Governor. Declare state of emergency. Develop/coordinate
requests for Federal assistance through FEMA Regional
Operations Center (ROC). Coordinate State request for Federal
consequence management assistance.
State EOC, State EM, and other State agencies, as
outlined in the basic EOP.
10. DEST provides assistance to FBI SAC. Merges into JOC, as
appropriate.
DEST: DoD, DOJ, HHS, FEMA, EPA, and DOE.