A. Increased Readiness Condition:
1. Assemble and brief City/County officials.
2. Arrange for printing and distribution of community shelters plan.
3. Review plans, personnel rosters, shelter status, training requirements and status of equipment.
4. Top off gas tanks in auxiliary units and operational vehicles.
5. Check spares and prepare to fix flat tires.
6. Update rosters and plans necessary.
7. Prepare EOC for occupancy, on skeleton basis or completely, at the discretion of the chief executives and their alternates.
8. Review or draft material to be released to the public over radio station, television and cable TV as the emergency dictates. For example: EBS announcements or other survival instructions.
9. Begin any training classes necessary to fill the vacancies or serve as refresher for CD staff on crash basis, if required.
10. Prepare standby plans for extended communications such as extra telephones or radios.
B. Warning of Natural Disasters:
1. Insofar as time and condition permit, complete all actions under subsection A, above.
2. According to nature of threatened disasters, begin intense weather watch, notify appropriate department heads and utility representatives.
3. Each designated staff person will immediately proceed to his place of duty or standby for subsequent alert call.
4. Travel and vacation plans will be curtailed and he will keep his home or office informed of his whereabouts at all times.
5. Family survival plans will be tested and rehearsed and preparations will be made for possible relocation.
6. Alert and brief City officials and keep local firms, schools and industries informed.
7. Warn public according to plans. (Broadcast weather warnings for sighted tornado or other threatening disasters. Release planned information over radio station, TV and cable TV.)
8. In the event the EOC is to be manned, the emergency notification system will be initiated by the police dispatcher as follows:
a. The police dispatcher will see that all EOC staff personnel of their respective jurisdiction are notified to report to the EOC.
b. Each department director will notify his personnel.
C. Warning of Nuclear Attack:
1. Alert local officials and other CD staff.
2. As appropriate, take actions under subsection A above insofar as possible.
3. Activate and staff EOC and preposition shelter management staff as appropriate.
4. If attack is imminent or underway, dispatch to warn population order movement to shelter and prepare for radiological monitoring.
5. Begin emergency broadcast system (EBS) instruction to the public.
D. Post-Disaster (Natural Disaster as well as Nuclear Disaster):
1. In nuclear disaster, conduct radiological monitoring, warn public of fallout conditions and determine maximum allowable dose for City/County forces in emergency operations.
2. Check or reestablish communications and EBS messages.
3. Maintain law and order.
4. Maintain contact with shelters, insure orderly operations and provide medical care, food, clothing, waste disposal, etc., to the extent possible; determine when departure from shelter is possible.
5. As soon as conditions permit, determine extent of damages to utilities, streets and buildings.
6. Carry out emergency plans as set forth in basic plan, SOPs and annexes.
7. Establish controls on critical resources and direct their distribution.
8. Request outside aid, if needed, or furnish support elsewhere.
9. Furnish status reports to Department of Public Safety State Disaster District. (Ord. 586, 7-1-75)