Virginia ESF-8 Briefings

This page includes the current Emergency Briefing issued by the Virginia ESF-8 Emergency Support Center. The Emergency Support Center is operated by the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services to provide a central point for coordinated health and medical support to local jurisdictions and for management of Department of Health response to disasters. The Emergency Briefing is a voice format report issued to provide a current assessment of the emergency situation for use by Emergency Medical Services Task Forces and Coordination Team personnel. Color ratings are used in some sections of the report to provide a quick look at system capabilities; these ratings are explained on the Glossary page of the Virtual Emergency Operations Center site.

Emergency Response Team Exercise 00-01

190800 BRIEFING ------------------------------------------------------

0. MESSAGE TYPE: Exercise

1. EFFECTIVE TIME: 190800 May 2000

2. STATE OF EMERGENCY: declared by Governor effective 170600

3. TYPE OF EVENT: Hurricane

4. IMPACT AREA: southeastern Virginia (east of I-95, south of Rappahannock River) and Eastern Shore

5. PLAN ACTIVATED: 151600 May

6. OPERATIONS PERIOD: 190800-200800 May

7. EOC: Readiness Condition 1 180600 May

8. ESC: 24 hours staffing at 180800 May

9. SYSTEMS: ESC: GREEN

10. SYSTEMS: COMMUNICATIONS: YELLOW outages in Hampton Roads, RED in southern Virginia Beach

11. SYSTEMS: LOGISTICS: GREEN

12. RESOURCES: TASK FORCES: GREEN

13. RESOURCES: C TEAMS: GREEN

14. RESOURCES: PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: BLACK

15. RESOURCES: CISM STRIKE TEAMS: RED

16. RESOURCES: VIRTUAL EOC INTERNET SITE: GREEN

17. TASK FORCES: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 7 on Warning, 3 Staged at Home

18. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT UNITS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning, 1 Staged at Home

19. C TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning, 1 Staged at Home

20. PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

21. CISM STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning

22. STAGING AREAS OPEN: 0

23. IMPACT TIME: 180900 May gale force winds

24. IMPACT SEVERITY: Category 1 in southeastern Virginia

25. ASSESSMENT: HOSPITALS IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN, 1 facility RED and evacuated for power outage

26. ASSESSMENT: EMS SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: YELLOW due to workload

27. ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: YELLOW

28. FATALITIES: 1

29. INJURED: 23

30. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS: voluntary evacuation of low lying areas

31. MEDICAL EVACUEES: 95 from 1 hospital

32. NDMS: TEAMS: not activated

33. NDMS: FCCS ACTIVATED IN VIRGINIA: 0

34. NDMS: AIRLIFT: not activated

182100 BRIEFING ------------------------------------------------------

0. MESSAGE TYPE: Exercise

1. EFFECTIVE TIME: 182100 May 2000

2. STATE OF EMERGENCY: declared by Governor effective 170600

3. TYPE OF EVENT: Hurricane

4. IMPACT AREA: southeastern Virginia (east of I-95, south of Rappahannock River) and Eastern Shore

5. PLAN ACTIVATED: 151600 May

6. OPERATIONS PERIOD: 181000 - 191000 May

7. EOC: Readiness Condition 1 180600 May

8. ESC: 24 hours staffing at 180800 May

9. SYSTEMS: ESC: GREEN

10. SYSTEMS: COMMUNICATIONS: YELLOW outages in Hampton Roads

11. SYSTEMS: LOGISTICS: GREEN

12. RESOURCES: TASK FORCES: GREEN

13. RESOURCES: C TEAMS: GREEN

14. RESOURCES: PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: BLACK

15. RESOURCES: CISM STRIKE TEAMS: RED

16. RESOURCES: VIRTUAL EOC INTERNET SITE: GREEN

17. TASK FORCES: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 10 on Warning

18. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT UNITS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

19. C TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

20. PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

21. CISM STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning

22. STAGING AREAS OPEN: 0

23. IMPACT TIME: 180900 May gale force winds

24. IMPACT SEVERITY: Category 1 in southeastern Virginia

25. ASSESSMENT: HOSPITALS IN IMPACT AREA: 2 YELLOW emergency power, others unassessed

26. ASSESSMENT: EMS SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: unassessed

27. ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: unassessed

28. FATALITIES: 1

29. INJURED: 6

30. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS: voluntary evacuation of low lying areas

31. MEDICAL EVACUEES: 0

32. NDMS: TEAMS: not activated

33. NDMS: FCCS ACTIVATED IN VIRGINIA: 0

34. NDMS: AIRLIFT: not activated

181000 BRIEFING ------------------------------------------------------

0. MESSAGE TYPE: Exercise

1. EFFECTIVE TIME: 181000 May 2000

2. STATE OF EMERGENCY: declared by Governor effective 170600

3. TYPE OF EVENT: Hurricane

4. IMPACT AREA: eastern North Carolina, southeastern Virginia

5. PLAN ACTIVATED: 151600 May

6. OPERATIONS PERIOD: 181000 - 191000 May

7. EOC: Readiness Condition 1 180600 May

8. ESC: 24 hours staffing at 180800 May

9. SYSTEMS: ESC: GREEN

10. SYSTEMS: COMMUNICATIONS: GREEN

11. SYSTEMS: LOGISTICS: GREEN

12. RESOURCES: TASK FORCES: GREEN

13. RESOURCES: C TEAMS: GREEN

14. RESOURCES: PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: BLACK

15. RESOURCES: CISM STRIKE TEAMS: RED

16. RESOURCES: VIRTUAL EOC INTERNET SITE: GREEN

17. TASK FORCES: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 10 on Warning

18. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT UNITS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

19. C TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

20. PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

21. CISM STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning

22. STAGING AREAS OPEN: 0

23. IMPACT TIME: 180900 May

24. IMPACT SEVERITY: expected Category 1 in southeastern Virginia

25. ASSESSMENT: HOSPITALS IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

26. ASSESSMENT: EMS SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

27. ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

28. FATALITIES: 0

29. INJURED: 0

30. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS: voluntary evacuation of low lying areas; North Carolina Outer Banks completed 16 May.

31. MEDICAL EVACUEES: 0

32. NDMS: TEAMS: not activated

33. NDMS: FCCS ACTIVATED IN VIRGINIA: 0

34. NDMS: AIRLIFT: not activated

170630 BRIEFING ------------------------------------------------------

0. MESSAGE TYPE: Exercise

1. EFFECTIVE TIME: 170630 May 2000

2. STATE OF EMERGENCY: declared by Governor effective 170600

3. TYPE OF EVENT: Hurricane

4. IMPACT AREA: eastern North Carolina, southeastern Virginia

5. PLAN ACTIVATED: 151600 May

6. OPERATIONS PERIOD: 170600 - 180600 May

7. EOC: Readiness Condition 2 170600 May

8. ESC: 24 hours staffing at 180800 May

9. SYSTEMS: ESC: GREEN

10. SYSTEMS: COMMUNICATIONS: GREEN

11. SYSTEMS: LOGISTICS: GREEN

12. RESOURCES: TASK FORCES: GREEN

13. RESOURCES: C TEAMS: GREEN

14. RESOURCES: PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: BLACK

15. RESOURCES: CISM STRIKE TEAMS: RED

16. RESOURCES: VIRTUAL EOC INTERNET SITE: GREEN

17. TASK FORCES: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 10 on Warning

18. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT UNITS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

19. C TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

20. PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

21. CISM STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 1 on Warning

22. STAGING AREAS OPEN: 0

23. IMPACT TIME: 17 May

24. IMPACT SEVERITY: Category 3 at landfall near Wilmington NC

25. ASSESSMENT: HOSPITALS IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

26. ASSESSMENT: EMS SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

27. ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: GREEN

28. FATALITIES: 0

29. INJURED: 0

30. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS: voluntary evacuation of low lying areas; North Carolina Outer Banks completed 16 May.

31. MEDICAL EVACUEES: 0

32. NDMS: TEAMS: not activated

33. NDMS: FCCS ACTIVATED IN VIRGINIA: 0

34. NDMS: AIRLIFT: not activated

152000 BRIEFING ------------------------------------------------------

0. MESSAGE TYPE: Exercise

1. EFFECTIVE TIME: 152000 May 2000

2. STATE OF EMERGENCY: not declared

3. TYPE OF EVENT: Hurricane

4. IMPACT AREA: South Carolina

5. PLAN ACTIVATED: 151600 May

6. OPERATIONS PERIOD: 151600 - 161800 May

7. EOC: Readiness Condition 4 151600 May

8. ESC: activated 151600 May

9. SYSTEMS: ESC: GREEN

10. SYSTEMS: COMMUNICATIONS: GREEN

11. SYSTEMS: LOGISTICS: GREEN

12. RESOURCES: TASK FORCES: GREEN

13. RESOURCES: C TEAMS: GREEN

14. RESOURCES: PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: BLACK

15. RESOURCES: CISM STRIKE TEAMS: RED

16. RESOURCES: VIRTUAL EOC INTERNET SITE: GREEN

17. TASK FORCES: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 9 on Warning

18. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT UNITS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

19. C TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 2 on Warning

20. PUBLIC HEALTH STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

21. CISM STRIKE TEAMS: NUMBER AND ALERT STATUS: 0

22. STAGING AREAS OPEN: 0

23. IMPACT TIME: 16 May

24. IMPACT SEVERITY: Category 1 at landfall

25. ASSESSMENT: HOSPITALS IN IMPACT AREA: N/A

26. ASSESSMENT: EMS SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: N/A

27. ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN IMPACT AREA: N/A

28. FATALITIES: 0

29. INJURED: 0

30. PROTECTIVE ACTIONS: none

31. MEDICAL EVACUEES: 0

32. NDMS: TEAMS: not activated

33. NDMS: FCCS ACTIVATED IN VIRGINIA: 0

34. NDMS: AIRLIFT: not activated

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