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DAMAGE ASSESSMENT TEAM is responsible for:
* Conducting preliminary and detailed damage
assessment surveys
* Assisting neighbors with documentation of belongings
(before
disaster) and damage (after disaster)
* Relaying damage assessment information to the
Communications
Team
COMMUNICATION TEAM is responsible for:
* Collecting and verifying information
obtained from response team
reports and emergency broadcasts
* Relaying appropriate information to the neighborhood
Division
Supervisor and the City's Emergency Operation Center
SHELTERING AND SPECIAL NEEDS TEAM is responsible
for:
* Ensuring that everyone in the neighborhood
with special needs is
identified and assigned a "disaster buddy"
* Identifying local Red Cross shelter sites and potential
temporary shelter within the neighborhood
* Devising the neighborhood evacuation plan
* Organizing neighborhood-wide evacuation drills
* Conducting the neighborhood evacuation
HAZARD MITIGATION TEAM is responsible for:
* Turning off damaged utilities (gas, water,
and electric)
* Roping off hazardous areas
* Clearing debris from the street
* Knowing the location of additional water sources
* Confining loose pets
CASUALTY COLLECTION TEAM is responsible for:
* Setting up a casualty collection/first aid
station
* Physical and psychological first aid
* Identifying medical resources in the neighborhood
SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM is responsible for:
* Searching damaged homes for trapped victims
* Removing trapped victims and injured people
* Marking buildings and mapping search area using grids
to section
off search areas
* Coordinating with Casaulty Collection Team
Copyright City of Oakland 1993
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