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Learning Objectives
1. List core state and local roles in pet planning and response
2. Describe APHIS Animal Care’s role in animal emergency management
3. Locate and utilize the APHIS Mobilization Guide4. Identify the Animal Care Emergency Programs
Development Plan5. List and describe the animal emergency response mission
areas
State and Local Roles
Incidents begin and end locally• Manage at lowest possible
jurisdictional level
Local government responsibilities:• Assess hazards• Identify resources• Planning
PETS Act and PKEMRA• State and local emergency preparedness plans to
address needs of individuals with household pets and service animals
• FEMA Administrator authorized to fund States
Federal Laws
APHIS’ Mission and Role
MISSION: Protect health and value of U.S. agriculture and natural resources
ROLE: Emergency Response Agency •Each employee potential emergency responder
Purpose
• Effective, efficient and consistent responses to agricultural or homeland security situations
• Deployment information; what to expect when deployed• Describe employee selection process• Available on APHIS websitehttp://www.aphis.usda.gov/emergency_response/downloads/APHIS%20Emergency%20Mobilization%20Guide.pdf
Key Sections
• Section 10: Mission, Purpose and Design
• Sections 10.3-10.8: Employee selection
• Sections 12.1-12.6: Deployment and demobilization basics
USDA’s ESF 11 Roles
• Monitor and respond to animal/plant pest and disease situations (APHIS VS and PPQ)
• Provide for safety and well-being of household pets (APHIS AC)
• Offer nutrition assistance-Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
• Ensure the safety and security of commercially produced meat, poultry, and egg products (FSIS)
APHIS ESF 11 Resources
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/emergency_response/esf_11/esf11.shtml
APHIS Animal Care
Safety and Well-Being of Household Pets• Provide technical support and subject matter
expertise • Not first responders for medical care or sheltering of
pets
Animal Care’s ESF 11 Support
Examples:• Hurricanes: Gustav, Ike
2008• Fires: Station Fire, Los
Angeles County 2009• Tsunami: American
Samoa 2009• Earthquake: Haiti 2010
AC Emergency Programs Vision
USDA APHIS Animal Care envisions a nation working together to protect the public through ensuring the safety and well-being of animals during disasters. Emergency Programs maintains consistency with Animal Care’s traditional regulatory goals, in that we advocate for animal safety and well-being, which improves safety and well-being for people.
ACEP’s Goals
• Employees with competencies, knowledge and personal characteristics to be available for immediate mobilization to support animal issues during emergencies
• Sufficient personnel with the right skills to meet critical staffing needs in one or multiple emergencies on a national basis
Missions
1. Provide national leadership2. Promote effective animal emergency planning3. Deliver training4. Mobilize highly trained personnel5. Provide contingency planning guidance and emergency
technical assistance to AWA regulated facilities6. Advocate for the use of best technologies and
appropriate practices for humane handling and depopulation during animal disease emergencies
1. National Leadership
Provide national leadership on the safety and well-being of pets and certain other animals during disasters•NASAAEP Summits, monthly conference calls•NASAAEP Best Practice Working Groups•Zoo Animal Health Network: Best Practice Working Group Zoological Facility Emergency Management•Leadership on exotic species, exhibitors, laboratory animals
2. Planning
Effective animal emergency planning at local, State, Tribal, Territorial and national levels•Workshops to develop written plan for CARES•Meetings with State partners to help write or refine animal emergency plans•Pets Coordination Function CONOPS development•Transportation exercises (LA 2008, 2010)•Sheltering exercises (NC 2010)•Engaging AC field staff in state exercises
3. Training
Support animal safety and well-being during disasters• ICS Training• Intro to Animal Emergency Management Course• AC Employee Development Plan • NASAAEP Summits• Other conferences and trainings
4. Mobilize Trained Personnel
Mobilize personnel to provide technical assistance, resource management, and response• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 2005• Hurricanes Gustav and Ike 2008• Iowa Floods 2008• North Dakota Floods 2009• Station Fire, CA 2009• Tsunami, American Samoa 2009
5. Contingency Planning
Contingency planning guidance and emergency technical assistance to AWA regulated facilities• Expertise in working with regulated facilities• Proposed contingency plan rule
6. Advocate Best Practices
Use of best technologies and appropriate practices in animal handling (surveillance, humane animal euthanasia, and mass animal depopulation) during disaster events • Under development in partnership with Veterinary
Services
Plan Goals
• Highly trained cadre of AC personnel • Cutting-edge animal emergency management
training • Refine roles and responsibilities
Credentialed Positions
Plan outlines 6 positions– 5 training levels– Core training– Additional training and development activities– Course descriptions – Training requirements
Consistent with APHIS Emergency Responder Qualifications System
1. Animal Welfare Officer
• Training Level 1• All AC field employees• Evaluate animal well-being – Sheltering– Transportation– Care and feeding– Veterinary medical care– Rescue operations
• Prepare reports, advise officials
2. Animal Welfare Officer – All Hazards
• Training Level 2• Animal Welfare Officer duties
plus:• Assess infrastructure and
needs• Coordination, technical
assistance and field assessment to evaluate animal well-being
3. Animal Welfare Team Leader – All Hazards• Training Level 3• Team Leader during a disaster deployment• Provide on-site leadership and supervision
4. Pets Mission Specialist
• Training Level 4• Works in multi-agency
coordination center (FEMA JFO, EOC)
• Works with stakeholders to provide coordination, technical assistance, and subject matter expertise on pet issues
• Training Level 5• Provide leadership,
supervision and conflict resolution
• Monitor AC personnel at incident
• Maintain coordination and support of household pet issues
5. Pets Mission Leader
6. Animal Care Program Response Team Member
• Assist in managing a program emergency (APHIS or provide assistance to State)
• Team provides incident management for program emergencies or ESF #11 missions
• Animal Care Inspectors, Veterinary Medical Officers, others
• Pre-requisite: Animal Welfare Officer – All Hazards Team Leader
Response Missions
• Six major mission areas
• Mostly handled locally• Be familiar with
missions to support them
1. Rapid Needs Assessment
• Initial survey to identify resources needed to support and sustain affected animals
• Identify need for continued monitoring and assessment
1. Rapid Needs Assessment
Assessments: • Health and safety• Evacuation and
transportation • Sheltering • ASAR • Livestock operations• Carcasses
• Veterinary care • Decontamination • Animal facilities (veterinary
facilities, shelters, kennels, biomedical facilities, zoos, farms, stables, etc.)
2. Evacuation & Transportation
• Owners evacuating with pets
• Pets of owners relying on public transportation
• Support animal facility evacuation
• Transport evacuated animals
3. Emergency Animal Sheltering
• Emergency pet and animal sheltering
• Support of shelter-in-place operations
• Pet-owner reunions
Terminology
Emergency Household Pet Shelter: pets from various sources sheltered in one facility
Example: Local animal shelter accepting pets from the public during a disaster.
Terminology
Collocated Emergency Household Pet Shelter: shelter located in reasonable proximity to a congregate shelter for people. Animal owners provide a substantial amount of care to pets.
Example: People housed in a high school gymnasium; pets housed in the nearby bus barn
Terminology
Stand-Alone Emergency Household Pet Shelter: pet shelter located away from a congregate shelter for people and distant enough that owners are not able to participate in pet care.
Example: People housed in the high school; pets housed at the fairgrounds several miles away; no pre-arranged shuttle service between facilities
Terminology
Cohabitational Pet/Animal Shelter: congregate shelter with people and animals sharing the same spaces
Example: Fairgrounds where people and their pets are camped out. People’s horses and other livestock housed in the barns at the fairgrounds
4. Animal Search and Rescue
• Primary animal search and rescue operations
• Technical animal rescue• Animal control• Management of strays• Documentation and
disposal of dead animals
Terminology
• USAR: Urban Search & Rescue
• ASAR: Animal Search & Rescue
• TAR: Technical Animal Rescue
5. Veterinary Medical Response
• Veterinary triage• Veterinary clinical care• Veterinary euthanasia• Veterinary health and
public health issues
6. Animal Decontamination
Decontaminate animals exposed to hazardous substances
Substances include:– Biological– Chemical– Radiological
Additional Mission Response Areas
Animal Facilities Support• Utilize expertise in working with facilities housing large
animal populations– Pet facilities – Agricultural– Zoos, wildlife– Biomedical research
Additional Mission Response Areas
Animal Health Emergency Response• Foreign animal disease outbreaks or control of
endemic diseases• Assist VS with welfare issues
Additional Mission Response Areas
Wildlife Response – Handling or managing
wildlife affected by disaster
– Usually local or state response
Animal Care’s Roles
Responsibilities• Statutory• Checking status of AWA
regulated facilities in disaster area and potentially supporting local response in connection with the facilities.
Capabilities• Role under the
NRF/ ESF 11• Engaging in support
missions related to household pets, regulated facilities or other missions related to AC’s capabilities.
Conclusion
You should have information about:• Core state and local roles in planning and response
for animals• APHIS AC’s role in animal emergency management• APHIS Mobilization Guide• AC EP Employee Development Plan• Understand animal emergency response missions