Virginia Beach Emergency Operation Plan ESF 10 Analysis
Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents are dangerous types of emergencies that can turn into a major disaster. Despite, many cities that run along the Atlantic Ocean become divested by tropical storms and flooding, HAZMAT related emergencies are a close second. In Virginia Beach, VA hazard risk are delineated into four categories: Critical Hazard – High Risk, Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk, Noncritical Hazard – Low Risk, and Negligible. HAZMAT is considered a Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or chemical spill, such as arsenic trichloride create devastation, which are potential HAZMAT incidents. Since the “U.S. Department of Transportation has aggressively …show more content…
Instead, it gives direct guides for each support agencies’ roles and responsibilities, through five phases of a disaster. In the City of Virginia Beach, the Virginia Beach Fire Department is the primary service agency that supports eight other service agencies in planning, training, and exercises to ensure an effective operation (City of Virginia Beach, 2016). The initial assessment of the ESF 10 is that it did not create an all-encompassing emergency plan during a radiological and nuclear emergency; nevertheless, ESF 10 defines HAZMAT, as CBRNE accidental or intentional, and that language allows for ESF 10 document to be examined as an all-encompassing CBRNE EOP. The Virginia Beach Police Department EOP addresses terrorist incidents involving CBRNE emergencies. Regardless, Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management (2016) tackles CBRNE as man-made a hazard that requires terrorism with the use of some CBRNE WMD. Each possible emergency caused by a terrorist incident that comprises of the CBRNE related terrorist act would still have an undertaking as a HAZMAT connected emergency. It is worth emphasizing there is a lacking technologically in comparison to San Diego Annex H. Throughout the examination of ESF 10, it has become abundantly apparent that this document needs added hyperlinks, current preplanning tools that are being used in the field that are not represented in EOPs and SOPs. D. R. Denton (personnel communication, April 4, 2018) stated, “that the HAZMAT technicians employ WISER and REMM when on HAZMAT related emergencies. As a better representation of the actions and service agencies involvement, the researcher will show the actions taken during a spill on Interstate
Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents are dangerous types of emergencies that can turn into a major disaster. Despite, many cities that run along the Atlantic Ocean become divested by tropical storms and flooding, HAZMAT related emergencies are a close second. In Virginia Beach, VA hazard risk are delineated into four categories: Critical Hazard – High Risk, Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk, Noncritical Hazard – Low Risk, and Negligible. HAZMAT is considered a Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or chemical spill, such as arsenic trichloride create devastation, which are potential HAZMAT incidents. Since the “U.S. Department of Transportation has aggressively …show more content…
Instead, it gives direct guides for each support agencies’ roles and responsibilities, through five phases of a disaster. In the City of Virginia Beach, the Virginia Beach Fire Department is the primary service agency that supports eight other service agencies in planning, training, and exercises to ensure an effective operation (City of Virginia Beach, 2016). The initial assessment of the ESF 10 is that it did not create an all-encompassing emergency plan during a radiological and nuclear emergency; nevertheless, ESF 10 defines HAZMAT, as CBRNE accidental or intentional, and that language allows for ESF 10 document to be examined as an all-encompassing CBRNE EOP. The Virginia Beach Police Department EOP addresses terrorist incidents involving CBRNE emergencies. Regardless, Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management (2016) tackles CBRNE as man-made a hazard that requires terrorism with the use of some CBRNE WMD. Each possible emergency caused by a terrorist incident that comprises of the CBRNE related terrorist act would still have an undertaking as a HAZMAT connected emergency. It is worth emphasizing there is a lacking technologically in comparison to San Diego Annex H. Throughout the examination of ESF 10, it has become abundantly apparent that this document needs added hyperlinks, current preplanning tools that are being used in the field that are not represented in EOPs and SOPs. D. R. Denton (personnel communication, April 4, 2018) stated, “that the HAZMAT technicians employ WISER and REMM when on HAZMAT related emergencies. As a better representation of the actions and service agencies involvement, the researcher will show the actions taken during a spill on Interstate