Book 98 Earthquake Plan Flashcards
(112 cards)
1
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Approximately how many people work and live above the 200 plus known earthquake faults throughout southern california?
A
8 million
2
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Earthquake faults are a result of tectonic plates pushing together how many miles beneath the earths surface?
A
6 to 15 miles
3
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The movement between the north american plate and the pacific plate pushes LA north at a rate of about how many inches per year?
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1 3/4 inches
4
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How many earthquakes does southern California experience every decade?
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200,000
5
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What are 3 notable earthquakes felt in southern California?
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Sylmar (February, 9, 1971)
Whittier (October 1, 1987)
Northridge (January 17, 1994)
6
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Seismologists predict a what percent probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 plus before 2024?
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80% to 90%
7
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For any earthquake causing significant damage within LA, who will normally be convened?
A
Emergency Operations Board
8
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What describes the duties and responsibilties of the City Emergency Operations Organization (EOO)?
A
City Emergency Operations Master Plan (EOMP)
9
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During a local emergency, who is the director of the emergency operations organization (EOO) that is authorized to promulgate, issue and enforce rules, regulations, orders and directives for protection of life and property?
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The Mayor
10
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Who manages the affairs of the LA’s EOO and issues instructions to the chiefs of the EOO division?
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Emergency Operations Board
11
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The functions of the EOO divisions, during an emergency or disaster are coordinated through what?
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Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
12
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The EOC directior will normally be who, with the deputy director coming from the other department?
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Fire or Police department
13
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The EOC may be activated at what levels depending on the magnitude of the event?
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Level 1, 2, or 3
14
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For an earthquake event, the EOC will be activated at what level?
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Level 3
15
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Department command utilizes ICS staff positions that will normally be filled by who?
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Fire Chief and Bureau Commanders
16
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The Department Commander is normally who and has overall responsibility for incident mitigation?
A
Fire Chief or DDC
17
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What mode will the department initiate any time a detectable earthquake tremor is felt?
A
Earthquake emergency mode
18
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The LAFD will remain in earthquake emergency mode until who determines otherwise?
A
Fire Chief or DDC
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The LAFD may immediate go to what and remain there until the magnitude of the situation is know when in earth quake mode?
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DISCON 2 (Dispatch Condition 2)
20
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All personnel and apparatus will vacate quarters and do what during earthquake mode?
A
Complete district drive through
21
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Who will conduct a survery through use of the MDC or Burean TAC of their companies to determine the condition of personnel, apparatus and quarters and ability to respond?
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BC
22
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The LAFD will go into the what mode for earthquakes that are felt throughout the area, cause significant damage and injuries, and/or require the commitment of a significant number of resources?
A
Expanded earthquake operational mode
23
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In normal earth quake mode, companies normally respond in what mode as directed by the BC?
A
Non emergency
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In expanded earthquake operational mode, companies will respond and survey their district in what response mode as directed by the BC?
A
Emergency
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The LAFD will go into what mode when a significant earthquake strikes that will potentially impact infrastructure and cause wide spread disaster?
Disaster mode
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Who will compile survey and incident information and report it to Department Command (if established) and/or MFC (if operational) during expanded earthquake operational mode and disaster mode and is assumed by OCB and OVB?
Area Commanders
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When the LAFD is placed in earthquake mode, companies will immediately vacate quarters and respond where?
Pre-designated safe location
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Companies will follow a pre-designated route and paying specfic attention to buildings with a high potential for life loss such as what?
Schools, hospitals, large residential, office, commercial or industrial and public assemblage
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Companies will also survey and evaluate the impact on the infrastructure inlcuding what?
Transportation routes, pipelines, utilities, bridges, tunnels and public services
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Strategic priorities during earthquake mode is to protect what 3 things?
Life, property, and environment
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Documentation should be accomplished using what ICS form when operations may be extended and MFC status may be compromised?
ICS 214
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When companies vacate stations in earthquake emergency mode, battalion/zone commanders will initiate the radio check or MDC message with their stations starting with the what numbered battalions assigned to the bureau TAC?
Lowest
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If any BC is unable of the duties such as radio status-check, who shall assume the responsibilities of complete the status check?
Station Commander of battalion headquarters
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If the AC Bureau commander is unable to fulfill any of the duties, the commanders from which numbered battalions in the valley and central bureaus will fill in?
Lowest numbered (Batt 1 OCB or Batt 10 OVB)
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If a battalion does not begin its status-check within a reasonable time, who will have the next battalion begin and send someone to check on the non-responsive battalion?
AC bureau commander
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When initial radio checks or MDC messages are complete at the station/battalion level, BC communicate to their respective 24-hour AC bureau commander in what bureaus?
OCB or OVB
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If there is no radio traffic from MFC, who will be responsiblle for ensuring that MFC is safe?
Battalion 1
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Following an earthquake, the LAFD will evaluate the city through what type of reconnaissance?
Aerial and ground
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Aerial reconnaissance will be accomplished but what agencies through helicopters?
LAFD and LAPD
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LAFD pilots will forward reconnaissance information to which commanders?
Area commanders
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If survey routes are impassable due to structural or roadway collapse, command personnel should consider what type of patrols?
Foot patrol
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During major events with numerous and simultaneous fires, who should only attack fires that are life threatening, spreading, have conflagration potential, create a hazardous release or are in essential service occupancies?
Companies
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Firefighting may be done in what mode to allow companies to be as efficient as possible?
"quick knock down" mode
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In a conflagration, existing firebreaks should be utilized to facilitate what type of control?
Perimeter control
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Consideration should be given to use alternate water sources if exterior and interior water systems are compromised by using what?
Water tenders, water shuttles or relays
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History has shown that when what is restored to areas that have experiences significant damage, broken wires may start new fires?
Power (electrical)
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Many people have been trapped in what following power outages and these types of incidents should be prioritized based on life hazard, potential dangers, duration of entrapment and extrication, and the number and condition of the people involved?
Elevators
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Officers should consider the use of who for assistance following a significant earthquake?
"Non-field" personnel
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EMS personnel will operate under the LA County DHS reference 519 to assist EMS personnel in the efficient management of what?
MCI
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Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) is a triage system that provides guidelines for per-hospital care personnel to rapidly classify victims into what 4 categories?
Deceased, Immediate, Delay, or Minor
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What county has been the recipient of the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Porgram that readies local hospitals to deliver coordinated and effective care to victims of large scale health care emergencies?
LA County
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In the event of a large scale incident, who will be activated?
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)
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For catastrophic mass casualty events, the standard of care will be minimal life support and patient holding for how many days?
2-3 days
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The Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) deploy to disaster sites with sufficient supplies and equipment to sustain themselves for a period of how many hours while providing medical care at a fixed or temporary medical care site?
72 hours
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What a temporary medical locations established to provide emergency medical care to mass casualties, in a non hospital setting?
Field Treatment Sites (FTS)
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Who staffs and maintains at and FTS?
Medical community and National Guard or DMAT
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It may take DMAT how many hours to arrive on scene?
12 to 24 hours
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How many caches of medical supplies are there throughout LA County?
6
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LA County medical supply caches are located at county facilities and available within how many hours of request?
2 to 3 hours
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Each medical supply cache in LA County contains supplies and pharmaceuticals enough to treat how many patients?
1000
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California Government Code mandates who of each county to determine the cause, circumstances, and manner of death which fall under their jurisdictions?
County Medical Examiner/Coroner
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How many counties for coroners have developed a mutual-aid agreement for appropriate assistance in California?
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The LAFDs overall responsibilities (3) for hazardous materials incidents during an earthquake are what?
Assess incident
Notify proper agencies
Emergency measures to minimize effect
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A primary task of companies performing their district survey is early assessment of what type of releases?
Hazmat
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Companies shall what using the recommended isolation distances that can be found in the North American Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)?
Isolate and deny entry
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Who will most likely accomplish initial extrications who find themselves at the scene of entrapment?
Spontaneous rescuers
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Who will normally be involved in more complex searches and extrications?
Fire department
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LAFD is part of which California (USAR) taskforce?
CA-TF 1
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How many California USAR task forces are there?
8 teams
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How many USAR task forces (FEMA) nationally?
28 teams
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How many people are part of CA-TF 1?
62 people
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Prior to entry into any collapsed structure, a through what analysis must be made?
Risk/benefit analysis
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Rescues should work in teams and establish what?
LCES
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When a team enters and begins a search, the entry point should be marked with what type of line?
Diagnol
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When the team leaves the area after search, they should mark the exit with what?
Crossed ("X")
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Teams should identify themselves and mark what when the search is complete?
Date and time, list any known hazards
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The "X" marking shall include the date and time, search team identification, hazards, and total victims remaining in structure on what side of the "X"?
Date/time on top, hazards to the right, total victims on bottom, team ID on left
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What 2 possible scenarios exist for the LA area to be impacted by tsunami?
Inundation of coastline by a tsunami in conjunction with a local earthquake
Inundation as a result of earth movement in some other area of the world
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Records show that a tsunami is likely to occur how often every 4 years?
Once
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Statistics of tsunami damage have shown that most losses occur in coastal area below how many feet of elevation?
20 feet
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Acoustic waves in the ionosphere travel how many mph?
780 mph
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Tsunamis travel between how many mph?
40 to 50 mph
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Normal operations of dispatch through MFC are known as what?
DISCON 1
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When MFC is totally non operational, resource dispatch and tracking will be accomplished through who?
Area Command (battalion/zone commander assume unit status-keeping and dispatch responsibilities within battalion)
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When MFC loses some capabilities and become partially or fully non-operational, MFC will go into a degraded mode of dispatch known as what?
DISCON 2 and 3
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Who is responsible for activation of the earthquake emergency mode?
MFC
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When earthquake emergency mode is activated, MFC shall simulcast a department wide notification to all field units on what channels?
4, 7, and 8
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After initial damage assessments are in, the MFC BC, in concurrence with who can establish the appropriate DISCON?
DDC
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When resources are depleted due to multiple major incidents, extreme weather conditions, or minor earthquakes, this may cause the department to operate in which DISCON?
DISCON 2
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When the dispatch floor is unable to keep up with incoming calls and priority dispatching must be implemented to gain control and there are multiple major incidents, extreme weather conditions, or major earthquakes, this may cause the department to operate in which DISCON?
DISCON 3
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Which DISCON will reduce initial resource response to a single engine on most dispatches, identify "no send" incident types, and limit EMS responses to a single unit on most EMS incident types?
DISCON 3
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Those inside the what impact area will be processed using what file?
High Volume Incident file (HVI)
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If MFC is not fully operational, who will immediately establish Area Command and assume responsibility for all operations within that geographic bureau?
OVB and OCB assistant bureau commanders
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How many different earthquake operational modes are there?
3
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If an apparatus is unable to leave quarters due an earthquake entrapping it, company officers shall notify who and make every attempt to become available for response as soon as possible?
Battalion/zone commanders
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The emergency operations center (EOC) operates in the what and is divided into the operations, section, planning and intelligence section?
Standard emergency management system (SEMS)
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How many levels can the EOC be activated at depending on the magnitude of the event?
3 levels
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For an earthquake event, the EOC will be activated a what level with approximately 70 plus personnel (full capacity)?
Level 3
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Who is responsible for establishing overall incident management policy?
Department commander
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Who activated emergency earthquake mode?
MFC
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Whenever the department goes into earthquake emergency mode, LAFD helicopters will immediately respond to each what?
Bureau
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Helicopters may be used for what to stem the spread of fire, or transport personnel and equipment?
Water drops
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For water drops or transportation of personnel, they may be requested through who?
Area commanders
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The department has how many EOC and DOC incident management teams?
4
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The department has 3, type 3 field incident management teams consist of how many on call members?
20
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How many levels of dispatch conditions are there (DISCON)?
4: DISCON 1-3, MFC non operational (Area command established and dispatches/track resources)
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Which DISCON is normal operating condition, MFC is not in degraded mode and full resource assignments are sent upon request?
DISCON 1
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Which DISCON mode is degraded mode during multiple major incidents, extreme weather conditions, minor earthquakes, limits response to any structure fire to an A assignment, and EMS response reduced in many cases to a single company or unit (to conserve engine companies)?
DISCON 2
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Which DISCON mode is activated when MFC is inundated with 911 calls, priority dispatching is implemented to gain control, multiple major incidents, extreme weather conditions, major earthquakes, reduced initial resources to a single engine on most dispatched, identify “no send” incident types, and limits EMS responses to a single unit on most EMS incident types?
DISCON 3
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If MFC is not fully operational, which assistant bureau commanders will immediately establish area command and assume responsibility for all operations within that Georgia pho’s bureau?
OVB and OCB
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When MFC is non operational, battalion resources should not be diverted from that battalion without approval of who?
Battalion and/or area command
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Once OCB and OVB establish area command, who established a zone command and functions as an independent operational system within its George aphis last boundaries?
Battalion
