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4. Emergency Operations 4.1 EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION This section provides details on operating procedures and essential elements of incident management to meet the particulars of the City's emergency organization and operations, while aligning with the Concept of Operations described in Section 3. The City's emergency organizational structure includes field response by the Fire and Police Departments, Public Works staff and other staff who may respond directly to an incident. The City also supports the local government level in the SEMS by activating and staffing an EOC and DOCS. 4.2 EOC The City EOC is the focal point for managing incidents that cannot be dealt with by activity solely at the Field Response level. The EOC then functions to support ICs at the field level by providing information collection, analysis and dissemination, resource prioritization and allocation, and organizing logistics support. The EOC may be supported by DOCs that manage their own response resources such as the Department of Public Works. Other departments that may activate a DOC are: • Fire Department • Police Department The City EOC is organized to manage, coordinate, and support emergencies using SEMS. ICS, which is incorporated into SEMS, provides for management of emergencies in the field based on a command and control approach. The City uses ICS for EOC operations based on a management approach. Priorities for EOC activities are: • Life/Safety • Incident Stabilization • Property Preservation 4.2.1 PURPOSE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE EOC The purpose of the City EOC is to provide a facility from which the organization's response to an emergency can be effectively coordinated. During an emergency, the EOC will provide a single focal point for centralized activities, to include: • Decision-making at the operation level • Management of information by developing, maintaining, displaying, and disseminating Situational Awareness of the incident • Resource support to identify, obtain, and manage City and other resources for emergency operations • Providing logistics support when multiple incident commands require coordination • Performing accounting and recordkeeping to track disaster costs • Providing liaisons to other organizations 45