ANNEX B
THE STATE OF FLORIDA
(To The State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 3 - CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
CHAPTER 4
- ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
CHAPTER 5 - TRAINING AND EXERCISES
Figure One Local Response
Figure Two State and Regional Response
Organization
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Three State and Regional
Response Organization
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Four State and Regional
Response Organization
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Five Regional Domestic Security
Task Forces
This document defines a statewide program
for the State of Florida to prepare for, respond to and recover from a
terrorist or cyber terrorist attack. It
is a hazard specific annex to the Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management
Plan (CEMP). This Annex governs the
plans, operational concepts, and policies used to prepare for and respond to
any type of, technological and/or criminal/hostile terrorist event in the State
of Florida. The procedures and actions defined in this Annex are normally
executed following the issuance of an executive order by the Governor
State government, as well as all communities
in the State, are vulnerable to attacks involving “weapons of mass destruction”
(WMD) and/or cyber terrorism. A
terrorist attack involving a “weapon of mass destruction” could threaten lives,
property, and environmental resources through physical destruction of
explosions and resulting fires, and/or by contamination with chemical,
biological, and/or radiological materials.
A cyber terrorist attack could destroy or significantly disrupt vital
computer networks, communication systems, and/or Internet services, interfering
with provision of critical community services and thereby causing substantial
human and economic impacts.
The State of Florida, in cooperation with
county/municipal representatives, is establishing and maintaining a
comprehensive program to prepare for and manage the impacts of terrorist and
cyber terrorist events. The program
will provide for continuing assessment of the State's vulnerabilities,
planning, and training to prepare for and respond to such events,
pre-deployment of specialized response capabilities throughout the State, and
definition of the operational concepts to be utilized to manage an actual or
suspected event.
Response to an actual or suspected event has
two phases: 1) Actions intended to prevent or end the terrorist action (known
as “crisis management”), and; 2) Actions to deal with the impacts of the event
(known as “consequence management”). In
most cases, the first responder to a terrorist event will be county or
municipal emergency personnel. Leaders
of these emergency response units will implement command and control of both
the crisis and consequence management operations through a unified command
structure established at or near the scene.
If needed, State and/or Federal assistance will be mobilized to support
the local command structure. This
process is fully described in this Annex.
In addition, this Annex describes the training and exercise
programs to be established in support of this program and sets forth the State
requirements for related county and municipal plan and program development.
The authority for
the development, implementation, and maintenance of this Annex and all
county/municipal terrorist response annexes is derived from Chapter
252.35(2)(a) and 943.0312 of the Florida Statutes.
This Annex further serves as the fundamental
governing policy for the Regional Domestic Security Task Forces (RDSTF)
activated at the outset of a terrorist incident by Executive Order of the
Governor of Florida. The RDSTF is fully
integrated into the emergency management system in place at the State and local
level pursuant to the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, Regional
Response Plans and Chapters 252 and 943 of the Florida Statutes, and various
planning requirements issued by the Florida Division of Emergency Management
and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Biological
Weapon - Microorganisms or toxins from living organisms that have
infectious or noninfectious properties that produce lethal or serious effects
in plants and animals.
Comprehensive
Emergency Management Plans (CEMP) - The documentation of a planning
process required by Chapter 252, Florida Statutes, at the state and county
level to establish policies and procedures needed to prepare for, respond to,
recover from, and mitigate the impacts of all types of natural, technological,
and criminal/hostile disasters.
Chemical
Weapon - Solids, liquids, or gases that have chemical properties that
produce lethal or serious effects in plants and animals.
Community
Emergency Response Teams (CERT) - Groups of individuals from the
general public organized on the neighborhood level and provided training to
conduct initial search, rescue and emergency medical operations during a
disaster until relieved by local emergency response organizations.
Consequence
Management - The Department of Community Affairs, Division of Emergency
Management, (DEM) is the lead agency for Consequence Management and is normally
designated as the State Coordinating Officer.
DEM is responsible for coordinating statewide assets in support to the
impacted RDSTF(s) and recovery operations.
Consequence management supports crisis management efforts from the time
of attack until such time as State Command passes to the SCO.
Crisis
Management - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is the lead state
agency for crisis management. As the
State Incident Command, under Florida State Statute 943, FDLE shall be
responsible to direct and coordinate the initial state and regional
response. The State incident Commander
exercises this authority through the RDSTF(s) to provide immediate regional
response to support the local incident commander. Crisis management begins once an attack has occurred. DEM is responsible for coordinating
statewide assets in support to the impacted RDSTF(s) and recovery operations.
Cyber
Terrorist Attack - An intentional effort to electronically or physically
destroy or disrupt computer network, telecommunication, or Internet services
that could threaten critically needed community services or result in
widespread economic consequences.
Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) Environmental Response Team (ERT) – A special
team consisting of Department of Environmental Protection environmental investigators,
emergency responders and uniformed officers along with representation from the
departments of Health, Transportation, and Agriculture and Consumer Services,
and the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Investigative Division. The team is available to support incident
commanders with hazardous material issues but is not limited to hazardous
material and industrial chemicals. The
Environmental Response Team personnel can be on scene within three hours and
the full team deployed within twelve hours of notification.
Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) - A centralized facility housing representatives of
emergency support functions for purposes of the identification, mobilization,
coordination, and allocation of personnel, equipment, and materials to support
the unified command at the incident scene.
Local Emergency Operations Center
refers to either a county and/or a municipal Emergency Operations
center. State Emergency Operations Center refers to the facility located in
the Rudd Building in Tallahassee.
Emergency
Support Function (ESF) - That portion of a comprehensive emergency management
plan that describes a grouping of similar or interrelated support activities
necessary for managing the impacts of a disaster.
Florida
Infrastructure Protection Center (FIPC) - 24-hour/7 days-a-week alert
center for tracking acts of cyber terrorism, including cyber crime and computer
hacking, aimed at Florida's government, financial services, utility, and other
critical infrastructures. Functions in
coordination with the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC).
Forward
Coordinating Team - A group of representatives of the Federal
organizations mobilized to a terrorist incident scene to advise the local
unified command.
Incident
Command System (ICS) - A standardized management system designed for control
and coordination of field emergency response operations under the direction of
an Incident Commander through the allocation and utilization of resources
within pre-defined functional and/or geographic areas.
Joint
Coordinating Element (JCE) – A terrorism/WMD incident will
involve the response of Federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Presidential Decision
Directive/NSC-39 (PDD-39) outlines federal response and places the FBI as the
federal lead for crisis management during a terrorism/WMD incident. Other agencies of the Federal Government
provide assistance to state and local agencies as outlined in the US
Government’s Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan
(CONPLAN) and the Federal Response Plan, Terrorism Incident Response
Annex. Federal agencies will co-locate
in a Joint Coordinating Element and liaison with the local authority. Florida responders should be familiar with
this operational plan in order to accommodate federal agencies in to the
Unified Command structure.
Joint
Information Center (JIC) - A location and/or operational unit staffed by the
public information officers of all key responding agencies, impacted
jurisdictions, or other groups closely involved in the incident in order to
provide for coordination and consistency in media management operations.
Joint
Operations Center (JOC) - The location at or near the scene of a terrorist
incident from where Federal response operations in crisis management are
coordinated.
National
Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS) - A national repository of
antibiotics, chemical antidotes, life-support medications, IV administration
and airway maintenance supplies, and medical/surgical items that is designed to
re-supply state and local public health agencies in the event of a biological
and/or chemical terrorism incident anywhere, at anytime within the United
States.
Potential
Threat Elements (PTE) - Any group or individual regarding which there are
allegations or information indicating a possibility of the unlawful use of
force or violence, specifically the utilization of a weapon of mass
destruction, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government,
the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of a specific
motivation or goal, possibly political or social in nature.
Public
Information Officer (PIO) - An individual from an organization
or jurisdiction participating in the event who is designated to prepare and
release public information regarding the situation and the response.
Regional
Domestic Security Response Resources - Pre-designated emergency
responders from local agencies and organizations that are specifically trained
and equipped to support the local incident commander at the scene of a
terrorist incident involving a weapon of mass destruction at any location in
the state.
Regional
Domestic Security Task Force (RDSTF) - Pursuant to FS 943.0312, the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has established a Regional
Domestic Security Task Force (RDSTF) in each of its seven operations
regions. The RDSTFs are the means
through which the Commissioner of FDLE executes the crisis management
responsibility.
Regional
Operations Center (ROC) - An emergency operations center established by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency that is used for coordination of Federal
resource requests.
Terrorism
– Terrorism, as defined in Chapter 775.30, Florida Statutes,
is an activity that involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life
which is a violation the criminal laws of this state or of the United States or
involves a violations of s.815.06, Offenses against Computer Users and is
intended to intimidate, injure, or coerce a civilian population, influence the
policy of a government by intimidation or coercion or affect the conduct of
government through destruction of property, assassination, murder, kidnapping,
or aircraft piracy.
Unified
Command - The adaptation of the Incident Management System in which
all key local, state, and/or Federal agencies cooperatively participate in
planning, decision-making and resource coordination in support of the
designated Incident Commander.
Weapon of
Mass Destruction (WMD) - (1) Any explosive, incendiary, bomb, grenade, rocket
having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an
explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or device
similar to the above; (2) poison gas; (3) any weapon involving a disease
organism; or (4) any weapon that is designed to release radiation or
radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life.
Weapons of
Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (WMD-CST) - A
designated team of National Guard personnel available on a seven day, 24-hour
basis with specialized training, equipment, and materials, that can be
mobilized by Executive Order of the Governor to the scene of a terrorist attack
to support the local Incident Commander.