PASIG CITY

CONTINGENCY PLAN

(Response Framework)

For Earthquake 1st 72 Hours

By

Ritche Van C. Angeles

Excerpts from Pasig City Earthquake Contingency Plan 2011

Strike Team 1 Santolan – Dela Paz

Area

TF Base 1 Pasig City Hall Area

Strike Team 3 Sta. Lucia

Ortigas Ave. Ext.

TF Base 2 Rosario

Sports Complex Area

Strike Team 2 San Joaquin

Elem. School Area

Strike team 4 Pinagbuhatan

Covered Court

PASIG MAIN

COMMAND POST

RED Center (C. Raymundo Ave.)

TF Base 3

CBD Area

Note: Every Base has an Emergency Supply of the following:

1. Portable Gensets

2. Portable Radio with batteries

3. All the Basic Fire & Rescue Equipment needed

4. First Aid Kit

5. Manpower and vehicles

6. Operation Tent

7. Food Provision for the Team

RESPONSE STRUCTURE:

Task Force: Any combination of resources assembled to support a specific

mission or operational need. All resource elements within a

Task Force have a common communications and a designated

TF leader. Total no. per TF: 42 to 71

Vehicles: combined Engines-Ambulance-Rescue Tender-Dozers

Strike Team: a set of number resources of the same kind and type that have

an established minimum number of personnel.

Total No.: 27 personnel per ST

Total no.: 4 any of the same kind

Engines/Dozers/Medical Transport

EOC

CITYHALL

SEARCH & RESCUE (LIGHT CATEGORY)

SEARCH & RESCUE (HEAVY CATEGORY)

SEARCH & RESCUE (MEDIUM CATEGORY)

POSSIBLE LEVELS OF EXISTING UNITS / GROUPS (Base from Equipment Cache & Skill Level)

BASIC STRUCTURE OF A TASK FORCE

Volunteer Grps BRGY COMBINED

Resources

PASIG CITY

FIRE & RESCUE

City Resources

General Objectives for Response Operations

Immediately following a major earthquake, ALL are directed to achieve the

following objectives:

• Save lives.

• Reduce immediate threats to life, public health and safety, and public and

private property.

• Provide necessary care, shelter, and medical services to Pasig City

residents and other members of the general public.

• Restore/Secure the operations of facilities, whether public or privately

owned, that are essential to health, safety, and welfare of the community,

including critical Pasig City facilities, hospitals, utilities (Gas stations),

market/food stores, water facilities, Comms capabilities and transportation

infrastructure including clearing & controlling traffic movement.

• Assess damage to infrastructure, public facilities, and the environment.

• Expedite the restoration of services, the economy, and the community;

and begin the process of recovery.

• Keep the public informed.

Initial Response Goals and Objectives (First 72 Hours)

First 4 Hours

• Respond to the immediate known effects of the earthquake:

• Direct and assist immediate life-saving rescue operations (DRRMO

assets).

• Direct fire suppression for existing structure, residential and industrial fires

and anticipate fire spread based on conditions. (BFP)

• Deploy law enforcement resources to support response activities and

maintain law and order & secure critical facilities. (PNP)

• Deploy emergency medical services to major incidents. (CHO)

• Establish casualty collection points for initial treatment of the injured.

• Identify potential sites for evacuation centers to accommodate displaced

populations while emergency shelters are being opened.

(DRRMO/CSWD)

• Identify at-risk populations, notify them, and begin to evacuate if

warranted. (DRRMO-ENGR-CSWD)

Assess:

• Situation at critical facilities, including identified EOCs and hospitals.

• Situation in areas not reporting. (DRRMO EOC/ENGR)

• Condition of emergency communications systems. (DRRMO-EOC)

• Implement Pasig City personnel recall. (HRDO)

• Begin public information messaging regarding recommended personal

protective actions, safe assembly points, and community assistance

needed. (using emergency SMS, Citywide Solar Siren & Emergency

Cellular Network (DRRMO-EOC)

• Complete an initial damage assessment (RDANA) of the city, identifying areas

affected, major incidents, and operational status of critical services.

• Create consolidated situation assessment, inform the Mayor and the

PCDRRMC and declare a state of calamity. (DRRMO-DANA Team)

First 12 Hours

Assemble resources for sustained response and for providing basic services to the

community:

• Assess critical resource shortfalls and begin requesting support through Mutual

Aid and MMDRRMC and OCD-NCR OpCen. Consider a 14-day period. Assess

condition of transportation system and develop alternatives for moving critical

resources into the city. (DRRMO/TPMO)

• Establish perimeter control around unsafe areas. (ENGR/PNP)

• Establish security at critical facilities (including warehouses, food stores, gas

stations). (GSO/PNP/BCEO/ENGR)

• Open evacuation centers. (CSWD/BRGYS)

• Assess conditions at designated emergency shelter sites and begin to supply

with beds, water, food, medical support, generators, sanitation, and facility

security; and begin to open emergency shelters to residents and Disaster

Social Workers. (CSWD/CHO/PNP/BCEO/DRRMO/ENGR)

• Identify people with special support requirements and transfer to appropriate

care facilities. (ex. PWDs) (GAD/CSWD)

• Designate primary routes and implement debris clearance, route recovery, and

traffic control. (TPMO/ENGR)

• Initiate a regular status reporting and resource requesting process between

area commands (if established), major incident commands (if established), and

MMDRRMC/National OCD counterparts offering coordinated assistance.

(DRRMO)

• Monitor and address identified issues regarding patient load balancing between

hospitals and the related patient transport system challenges.

• Assess the need to activate the Joint Information Center (Centralized center for

inquiries, registration of evacuees info, missing persons etc).

• Determine if a curfew should be established. (CHO/PIO/PNP/DRRMO)

24 Hours

• Consolidate system for sustaining emergency response operations:

• Concentrate Pasig City emergency management efforts on supporting ongoing

on-scene incident management at major incidents, reinforcing the logistical

support being requested. (DRRMO/GSO/ENGR/CHO/CSWD

• Commit resources to support public safety by assisting incoming employees and

gathering/distributing available resources from less-affected parts of NCR and

out-of-area Provincial and National resources.

• Designate staging areas and begin planning to accommodate support personnel.

(DRRMO)

• Ensure that an adequate system is in place to fuel and maintain generators

providing power to critical facilities. (GSO/PNP/ENGR)

• Establish temporary morgues and begin process of collecting remains.

• Conduct outreach for situation status and resource needs for affected facilities

needing support from Pasig City, including auxiliary/secondary medical

institutions, educational centers, commercial buildings, and sites of

historic/cultural significance. (CHO/ENGR/GSO)

• Initiate regular news briefings to inform residents on Pasig City operations, steps

they can take, services available to them, ongoing rumor control efforts, and

ways in which the community can help. Prepare & release an Official Media

Statement (PIO/DRRMO)

48 Hours

Stabilize support for affected areas and secure unaffected areas for resumption of

services:

• Process ongoing logistical resource requests for emergency services and Mutual

Aid needs to support incident management. (DRRMO/GSO)

• Implement the Pasig City emergency drinking water plan. (Mobile Water

Treatment) (DRRMO/ENGR)

• Establish a distribution network for drinking water and food for persons who are

not residing in evacuation facilities but are without basic services.

• Initiate damage assessment of Pasig City facilities, with priority for

facilities critical to response operations. (DRRMO/CSWD/PNP/ENGR)

• Make arrangements for the EOC (C3/DRRMO) to assume responsibility for

supporting incoming Mutual Aid and available resources, relieving field-level

public safety workers to focus on providing sustained rescue, firefighting,

paramedic, and law enforcement services.

• Conduct an ongoing review in EOC of current situation reporting and

resource requesting processes and revise, as available systems require.

• Anticipate and support initial damage assessment visits by MMDRRMC and

National OCD officials wanting to confirm the immediate and long- term recovery

needs of the city for their out-of-area resources.

• Logistics for responders. (DRRMO/ENGR/CSWD/CHO)

72 Hours

Begin transition from immediate emergency response efforts to sustained

operations.

• Support hospital and other medical facility re-supply efforts. (CHO)

• Re-evaluate mass care needs in light of any ongoing aftershocks and

subsequent damage. (CHO)

• Establish evac shelter support coordinator teams and evaluate the evac sites

to identify: (CSWD/ENGR/GAD/PNP/DRRMO/CHO)

– Site damage

– Critical support requirements, including camp management

personnel,

– camp security

– Adequacy of feeding and medical care arrangements

– camp demographics (gender, children, medical needs, language

barriers, disability needs)

• Establish plans for how to provide care for people with special support

requirements that cannot be met in congregate care shelters. (CHO)

• Establish a Joint Information Center. (DRRMO/PIO)

• Establish the Donations/Relief Management Branch/Team and the Human

Resources Branch/Team in the Logistics Section to facilitate the handling of

volunteers and donations. (GSO/HRDO/MAYORs)

• Review and enhance security plans to maintain public order. (PNP)

• Begin translating damage assessment information into initial damage

estimates required by MMDRRMC and OCD. (DANA)

• Participate in discussions with MMDRRMC and OCD on assessing

services residents will require to recover from the disaster. (DRRMO)

• Review incident status reports to prioritize incident commands that can begin

suspending emergency response operations and transition to sustained

response and recovery operations. (DRRMO/DRRMC)

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STRIKE TEAM

Santolan Elem School

EVAC Area with Platform ready

PRP at Bridge

RESCUE TRUCK

CMND POST

FIELD

HOSPITAL

RESQ BOAT

RESPONSE

FRAMEWORK

FOR

EARTHQUAKE

MAIN ICP

RED CENTER

Sta Lucia

Strike Team

Strike Team

Pinagbuhatan Outpost

RELIEF CTRE & EVAC CTRE

Eusebio HS

STRIKE TEAM

San Joaquin Kalawaan

EVAC CTRE

ULTRA & OLD

RIZAL CAPITOL

EOC

TF3

TF1

TF2

TF Task Force