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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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