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Debris Management Monitoring Team
Team manages oversight of the removal, collection, and disposal
of debris following a disaster, to mitigate against any potential
threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the impacted citizens,
and expedite recovery efforts in the impacted area, and address
any threat of significant damage to improved public or private
property. To act as the representing agent for the owner/agency
hiring for this service providing overall coordination with
all levels of government and other Emergency Support Functions
(ESFs). Provides daily reports as required. Required liability coverage for all aspects
of operations and financial capabilities to manage progressive
monitoring processes.
Debris Management Site Reduction Team
A debris
management site reduction team is designed to reduce debris
from affected areas, and aims at limiting the modification
of the site to the extent practicable to minimize site closure
and restoration activities and cost. Teams must have knowledge and expertise to
perform varying debris reduction separation techniques, including
at minimum four categories: woody
vegetative debris, construction or building rubble, hazardous
materials [HazMat], and recyclable materials (e.g., aluminum,
cast iron, steel, or household white goods or appliances). These
methods of debris reduction separation could include grinding
or mulching, air curtain incineration or ash, compaction, recycling,
or other specialized separation techniques. Teams
should have appropriate education and training in managing
inspection stations located at such debris reduction sites,
recycling locations, or temporary debris staging reduction
sites. The management
of said inspection stations shall at all times comply with
OSHA, ADA, and other regulatory requirements. Routine
maintenance of temporary debris staging reduction sites will
be undertaken regularly to ensure no additional environmental
impacts and that regulatory requirements are met. Upon
completion of debris removal, teams shall provide a timely
closeout of the debris reduction site by testing soil and water
samples to compare with pre-use baselines, remove all unnecessary
debris and equipment from the site, conduct environmental audits,
and develop a restoration plan for the site. For quality assurance, teams shall provide
debris monitors to observe and provide guidance to workers,
whether government or contractual, that may assist in the process. All debris collected, separated, and analyzed by such debris reduction
site management teams shall be done so in accordance with Federal,
State, territorial, Tribal, or local laws, standards, and regulations.
Debris Management Team
Team facilitates and coordinates
the removal, collection, and disposal of debris following a
disaster, to mitigate against any potential threat to the health,
safety, and welfare of the impacted citizens, and expedite
recovery efforts in the impacted area, and address any threat
of significant damage to improved public or private property. Team
mobilization will vary depending on the team selection, need,
and or emergency. Debris removal process will vary depending
on the team selection and need.
Decontamination
The physical or chemical process
of reducing and preventing the spread of contaminants from
persons and equipment used at a hazardous materials (HazMat)
incident. (National Fire Protection Association [NFPA]
Standard # 472)
Deployable Portable Morgue Unit
(DPMU)
Mobile equipment and operations
facility, fully equipped to support DMORT functions. Add-on
to DMORT when no local morgue facilities are available. Supports either standard DMORT or DMORT-WMD.
Deployment
Departure of team or personnel from
home unit or base.
Desert Search and Rescue Team (Wilderness Rescue Team)
Conducts search and rescue missions,
evidence searches, and responds to other disaster or emergency
situations in a desert environment.
Disaster Assessment Team
Governed
by type and magnitude of the disaster, the structure of the
team consists of people most knowledgeable about the collection
or material inventory of the disaster site, and assessing the
magnitude and extent of impact on both the population and infrastructure
of society. Trained
specifically for disaster assessment techniques, team members
are multidisciplinary and can include health personnel, engineering
specialists, logisticians, environmental experts, and communications
specialists. Responsibilities include recording observations
and decisions made by the team, photographing and recording
disaster site damage, and investigating where damage exists. Teams also analyze the significance of affected
infrastructures, estimate the extent of damages, and establish
initial priorities for recovery. Disaster
assessment teams can perform an initial assessment that comprises
situational and needs assessments in the early, critical stages
of a disaster to determine the type of relief needed for an
emergency response, or they may carry out a much more expedited
process termed a rapid assessment.
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) – Basic, National
Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
A DMAT is a volunteer group of medical and nonmedical individuals,
usually from the same State or region of a State, which has
formed a response team under the guidance of the NDMS (or under
similar State or local auspices). Usually
includes a mix of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners,
physician’s assistants,
pharmacists, emergency medical technicians, other allied health
professionals, and support staff. Standard DMAT has
35 deployable personnel. See Annex A: Federal Response Teams for more detailed information on this Federal
Resource.
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) – Burn Specialty,
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
A Burn Specialty DMAT is a volunteer group of medical and
nonmedical individuals, usually from the same State or region
of a State, that has formed a response team under the guidance
of the NDMS (or State or local auspices), and whose personnel
have specific training/skills in the acute management of burn
trauma patients. Members of the burn team are especially
trained surgeons, nurses, and support personnel that include
physical and occupational therapists, social workers, child
life specialists, psychologists, nutrition and pharmacy consultants,
respiratory therapists, chaplains, and volunteers. Team
composition is usually determined ad hoc, based on the mission
at hand. See Annex A: Federal Response Teams for more detailed information on this Federal
Resource.
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) – Crush Injury Specialty,
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
A Crush Injury Specialty DMAT is a volunteer group of medical
and nonmedical individuals, usually from the same State or
region of a State, that has formed a response team under the
guidance of the NDMS (or State or local auspices), and whose
personnel have specific training/skills in the management of
crush injury patients. Crush
teams deal with crush and penetrating injuries. Usually includes a mix of physicians, nurses,
nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, pharmacists, emergency medical technicians,
other allied health professionals, and support staff. Team composition is usually determined ad hoc, based on the
mission at hand. See Annex
A: Federal Response
Teams for more detailed information on this Federal Resource.
Disaster
Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) – Mental Health Specialty,
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
A Mental Health Specialty DMAT is
a volunteer group of medical and nonmedical individuals, usually
from the same State or region of a State, that has formed a
response team under the guidance of the NDMS (or State or local
auspices), and whose personnel have specific training/skills
in the management of psychiatric patients. A multidisciplinary staff of specially trained
and licensed mental health professionals provides emergency
mental health assessment and crisis intervention services. Usually
includes a mix of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners,
physician’s assistants,
pharmacists, emergency medical technicians, other allied health
professionals, and support staff. Team composition
is usually determined ad hoc, based on the mission at hand. See Annex A: Federal Response Teams for more detailed information
on this Federal Resource.
Disaster Medical Assistance Team
(DMAT) – Pediatric Specialty, National Disaster Medical System
(NDMS)
A Pediatric Specialty DMAT is a
volunteer group of medical and nonmedical individuals, usually
from the same State or region of a State, that has formed a
response team under the guidance of the NDMS (or State or local
auspices), and whose personnel have specific training/skills
in the management of pediatric patients. Usually
includes a mix of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners,
physician’s assistants,
pharmacists, emergency medical technicians, other allied health
professionals, and support staff. Team composition is usually determined
ad hoc, based on the mission at hand. See Annex A: Federal
Response Teams for more detailed information on this Federal
Resource.
Disaster
Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT), National Disaster
Medical System (NDMS)
A DMORT is a volunteer group of
medical and forensic personnel, usually from the same geographic
region, that has formed a response team under the guidance
of the NDMS (or State or local auspices), and whose personnel
have specific training/skills in victim identification, mortuary
services, and forensic pathology and anthropology methods. Usually
includes a mix of medical examiners, coroners, pathologists,
forensic anthropologists, medical records technicians, fingerprint
technicians, forensic odentologists, dental assistants, radiologists,
funeral directors, mental health professionals, and support
personnel. DMORTs are
mission-tailored on an ad-hoc basis, and usually deploy only
with personnel and equipment specifically required for current
mission. See Annex A: Federal
Response Teams for more detailed information for this Federal
Resource.
Disaster
Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) – Weapons of
Mass Destruction (WMD), National Disaster Medical System
(NDMS)
Same as DMORT except adds additional capability to deal
with deceased persons residually contaminated by chemical,
biological, or radiological agents.
Disaster Recovery Team
A Disaster Recovery team is governed by type and magnitude of the disaster, the structure
of the team consists of people most knowledgeable about the
collection or material inventory of the disaster site, as they
direct their efforts to recovery of both the population and
infrastructure of society. Responsibilities include separating collections
and other materials to be salvaged, moving material to be recovered
from affected areas to work or other storage locations for
drying materials, and packing materials that will require shipment
to another facility. Other responsibilities include maintaining
records and photographs of the recovery effort, and establishing
inventories and data collection of items as they are sent out
of the building/affected location to off-site storage or other
facilities. The Disaster Recovery Team may also label items that have lost
inventory numbers, label or relabel boxes with locator information,
and label boxes for shipment.
Donations Coordinator
The Donations
Coordinator is a subsection of a Donations Management Team
and has working knowledge of the Individual Assistance and
Public Assistance functions under FEMA/State agreement.
A Donations Coordinator also has working knowledge of establishing long-term
recovery committees on local levels following events. A Donations Coordinator possesses an operational knowledge of all
aspects of donations coordination, including management of solicited and unsolicited
funds, goods and services from concerned citizens and private organizations
following a catastrophic disaster situation.
Donations Management Team
A donations management team consists
of one or two persons trained and experienced in all aspects
of donations management. The
team will be deployed to a disaster-affected jurisdiction after
impact to assist in the organization and operations of State
or local donations management in support of the affected jurisdiction.
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