EDXL “Situation Reporting” Messaging Standard DRAFT – June 13, 2007
Road Rescue06 Highway Incident Scenario
IEPD Scenario Planning
Road Rescue 06 Highway Incident Scenario & Use Case
Version 1.2
Supporting the EDXL “Situation Reporting”
Draft Messaging Standard
Taken from the…
ROAD RESCUE 06 Exercise Plan
A joint, full scale mass casualty exercise involving Baltimore County, the private sector and the State of Maryland
March 20, 2006
Revision / Meeting History
Name / Date / Reason For Changes / VersionTim Grapes / 4/24/07 / Highway Incident Scenario team kickoff meeting. Materials provided as input to develop scenario / 0.0
Tim Grapes / 5/2/07 / 1st draft scenario time-line (partial) developed and reviewed in 5/2 meeting. Tim asked to incorporate comments and complete time-line using source docs and Alvin Marquess / 1.1
Tim Grapes / 6/13/07 / Scenario initial time-line revisions made from 5/02/07 meeting. Time-line developed and extended by synchronizing and reconciling these source documents:
· Maryland Road Rescue 06 Exercise Plan Objectives document – integrate these activities and those from our meetings with the two docs below
· State of Maryland CHART system automated report generated from the Road Rescue06 exercise (pdf file provided)
· Alvin Marquess exercise notes / exercise time-line series of events (pdf file provided).
Next step is to review and revise with Alvin Marquess, and then facilitate a team review to complete the scenario and move into use case development / 1.2
1.3
RoadRescue06 Highway Incident Scenario
Scenario Usage:
This document represents one of several scenarios being exercised by the DHS Disaster Management-sponsored Practitioner Steering Group (PSG) and Standards Working Group (SWG). The scenario provides a real-world basis for development of use cases (Highway Incident use case “EDXL_use_case_Highway_IncidentV1.x.doc”), to define the draft EDXL “Situation Reporting” messaging standard. The purpose of the EDXL suite of messaging standards is to facilitate broad and seamless multidisciplinary information sharing between disparate systems that support emergencies and disasters.
Definition of the draft standard takes the form of a PSG/SWG approved specification, containing information sharing requirements and high-level message design. In partnership with the Emergency Interoperability Consortium (EIC), the draft specification is submitted to a public standards organization – the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Once accepted as a work product, OASIS, through its Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) tackles technical implementation and international usage concerns, and develops the draft into an international, public technical standard.
Scenario Participants:
· Baltimore County:
o Baltimore County Fire Department (career and volunteer)
o Baltimore County Police Department
o Baltimore County 911 Center and EOC
o Baltimore County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
o Baltimore County Office of Volunteers
o Baltimore County Department of Health
o Baltimore County Department of Aging (observe/shadow)
o Baltimore County Department of Social Services / Shelters
o Baltimore County Sheriff’s Department
o Baltimore County Department of Public Works (observe/shadow)
o Baltimore County Community Colleges (Essex Campus)
· Private Sector:
o Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES)
o Franklin Square Hospital
o Sinai Hospital
o Northwest Hospital
o St. Joseph’s Hospital
o Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC)
o Private Ambulance Services
· State Agencies
o Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT)
§ MDOT Headquarters (TSO)
§ State Highway Administration (SHA)
§ Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)
o Maryland State Police (MSP)
o Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
o Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS)
o Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)
(including MJOC, WebEOC, EMNet)
o Maryland Department of Disabilities (observe maybe)
o Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Spring Grove Facility) (???)
o Towson University
ADD COURNER
ADD PRIVATE TOWING AND RECOVERY SERVICES
(NOTE: (INSERT A LIST OF ACRONYMS FOR REFERENCE – pull from text above))
MJOC - Maryland Joint Operations Center – 24-hour watch center at NEMS
NEMS –
MCI -
MDE – Maryland Department of the Environment
PSAP – Public Safety Answering Point
MTA – Maryland Transit Authority
SOC – State Operations Center
SHA – State Highway Administration
ALS -
CHART – Chesapeake Highways Advisory Routing Traffic. State of Maryland CHART system is a highway incident reporting tool. Also have “CHART trucks” used as Emergency Response Units providing flood lights and other capabilities..
MCP - Mobile Command Post
MEMA – Maryland Emergency Management Agency
RACES – Ham operators armatures group – support emergency services
JIC - Joint Incident Command
MSP - Maryland State Police
MTA - Maryland Transit Administration
NCS –
FRED -
Scenario Objectives:
· Provide a specific actual or real-world basis for development of use cases, to define the draft EDXL “Situation Reporting” messaging standard
· As one of several scenarios, exercise multidisciplinary coordination and communication of government and private state and local organizations to effectively respond to, mitigate and recover from local, day to day incidents as well as mass casualty events involving diverse populations.
· Include sufficient activities and time-line to drive out both current and future requirements for systems information sharing during evolving situations and incidents (emergencies and disasters) of any scale.
· Exercise inter-operational decision making processes through implementation of emergency response plans using the National Incident Management System (NIMS) with emphasis on systems information sharing requirements.
· Evaluate information contained in ICS forms ICS-201 - "Incident Briefing“, ICS-209 - "Incident Status Summary Report", ICS-215 - "Operational Planning Worksheet", and ICS-203 – “Organizational Assignment List”, to identify the most common elements of information needed, as candidates for messaging standardization / information-sharing across a broad base of emergency / disaster support disciplines.
· Evaluate information contained in the current Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) “SitRep” process– A filtering of information up from FEMA to NRCC to HSOC to the White House, to identify the most common elements of information needed, as candidates for messaging standardization / information-sharing across a broad base of emergency / disaster support disciplines.
· Drive out specific information-sharing requirements and required information flows (XML “messages”) between senders and recipients, and defines message elements and message structure supporting those information flows.
· Identify convergence with current or draft EDXL standards
Sub-objectives:
Baltimore County Department of Social Services:
· Activate a shelter (without having actual evacuees).
· Notify relevant staff that a shelter is being activated.
· Stage shelter assets. Brief staff on shelter location, the hazard area, routes to follow to the shelter and en route emergency procedures, if any.
· Staff up the shelter facility according to plans and procedures.
· Have necessary staff report to the shelter site.
· Baltimore County Department of Aging will participate with Department of Social Services (including any tabletop exercises)
Baltimore County Community Colleges – Essex Campus:
Evaluate and assess:
· CCBC Emergency Management Plan
· CCBC ERT team response and communication systems
· Activation of our Emergency Command Centers
· Availability of college support (plant operations, counseling, etc.)
· MOU with County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
· Response time, communication and support of our external emergency responders
· Evaluate existing draft Surge Capacity MOU with Franklin Square Hospital
· Set up 100 cots, medical supplies, etc. for surge capacity
· HAM Radio set up and operations in campus Building F Penthouse
· Recovery and Business Continuity efforts
· Debriefing process
Baltimore County Fire Department:
Address and improve on lessons learned from previous drills
· Command and Control and Communications
· Communications
· Staging
· Accountability
· Triage
· Treatment
· Transport and Disposition
· Exercise Coordinators
Baltimore County Health Department:
The Department of Health desires to evaluate to the fullest extent possible, those components of our emergency plan which were not evaluated during Harborbase III.
1. Surge Capacity and Exercise of the MOU between Hospitals and Colleges*
The Health Department has agreed, as part of this MOU, to assist the hospitals in triage functions at the surge sites.
* Depends on level of play by hospitals and colleges
2. Staffing of Shelters
a. Following the real time sheltering of evacuees in the trail Hurricane Isabel, it became evident that Health Department staff (Nursing and Mental Health) will be called upon to support and staff shelters.
3. EOC Staffing
It is our understanding that the County EOC will be activated for Road Rescue 06. The Health Department is willing to staff EOC as needed and will open the Health Department EOC at the Drumcastle Building. A controller will be needed at Drumcastle.
Baltimore County Police Department:
Evaluate initial response, large incident coordination, incident/unified command, interface with other law enforcement agencies, accident investigation
· First Responding Officer(s):
· First Arriving Supervisor:
· Shift Commander:
· Precinct Commander:
· Coordinate effort with EOC (if EOC opened)
· Controllers will be needed at Unified Command and at County EOC.
Baltimore County Sheriff’s Office:
· Interoperability with Local Law Enforcement, Fire Dept., Health Dept., DPW.
· Communications
· Critical Incident Management
· Unified Incident Command
· EOC Operations Command
· Assistance at hospitals
Franklin Square, Northwest, St. Joseph’s, GBMC, and Sinai Hospitals:
· To triage, decon, and treat patients from the scenario. (50 at Franklin Square, 20 at Northwest, 50 at Sinai), triage and treat without decon (30 at St. Joseph’s, 20 at GBMC). Actual transport by ambulance only to Sinai and Northwest
· To evaluate the activation of the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS) utilizing integrated NIMS standards.
· To disseminate information to our offsite facilities regarding the event.
· To exercise communications between the FD scene and hospitals via FD radio of responding unit.
· To evaluate Franklin Square’s collaborative efforts with CCBC Essex tohandle management of surge capacity, and Towson University’s collaboration with the other four hospitals.
· To integrate with the RACES group to evaluate communications among County hospitals and agencies using HAM radio. RACES will be at the County EOC, Drumcastle, all five hospitals, CCBS Essex, Towson University, Woodlawn High and main incident scene.
· To utilize this system to request resources from other hospitals within theBaltimore CountyMutual Aid MOU.
· Will need a controller at each hospital, and one hospital rep to County EOC.
Maryland Department of Transportation Headquarters (TSO):
· Evaluate emergency notification procedures for major incidents
· Evaluate TSO Emergency Response Manager (ERM)interaction and management of MDOT involvement in incident
· Evaluate integration of TSO ERM with local agencies, other State agencies and NGOs.
· Evaluate MDOT PIO(s) with other PIO(s) and JIC
Maryland State Highway Administration:
· Evaluate emergency notification procedures for major incidents
· Evaluate multi-jurisdiction communications at major incident
· Evaluate traffic handling, including safe lanes near incidents and setting up detours and closures as needed
· Evaluate coordination with local and other State agencies on incident recovery
Maryland Transit Administration:
· Evaluate emergency notification procedures for major incidents
· Evaluate multi-jurisdiction communications at major incident
· Evaluate bus operator emergency procedures
· Evaluate bus supervision emergency procedures, including interaction with MDOT, local agencies, and other State agencies
· Evaluate MTA Police communication and coordination with other police agencies for immediate response and accident investigation
· Evaluate coordination with local and other State agencies on incident recovery
Maryland State Police
· Interoperability with Local Law Enforcement, other responders.
· Communications
· Crash Team coordinate with Baltimore Counties crash team
· Critical Incident Management
· Unified Incident Command
Maryland Department of the Environment
· Integrated hazmat operations with Baltimore County
Multi-agency Public Affairs Operations
· Baltimore County Fire Department and MDOT-TSO PIOs will handle real media coverage of exercise.
· Baltimore County Fired Department PIO on call will play in incident, along with PIOs from the hospitals, Health Department, County Police, Sheriff, MSP and other State agencies.
Scenario Synopsis:
WHAT IS THE OUTCOME FROM A PATIENT/VICTIM POINT OF VIEW (SEE PAPER NOTES)…
Location – Eastbound I-70 inside beltway near Security Boulevard in western Baltimore County. There are no turnarounds in the median between I-695 and the Park and Ride at end of I-70. Road has 3-4 travel lanes, plus wide shoulders on both side of road. Median had jersey walls with 10-20 feet of grass between. Baltimore County Fire will advice resident of area for informational purposes only. The Park and Ride area is actually in Baltimore City and will not be in active play during the exercise. Sgt. McClaskey of Baltimore City Police has been notified of exercise.
Accident scene – Two coaches, full of passengers, box truck (or semi tractor trailer combo), two cars (one overturned or under another vehicle), motorcycle. Truck against bus, doors blocked on at least one coach. Truck is leaking fuel. Numerous pedestrian victims also. No terrorism nexus. For the purposes of this exercise, the road will not be considered an Interstate, but a major arterial road. Baltimore County Police will be primary law enforcement, assisted by Maryland State Police, Baltimore County Sheriffs, and Maryland Transit Administration Police.
Sequence of events at incident scene:
This scenario timeline was pieced together using actual documents supporting the “ROAD RESCUE 06 Exercise Plan”, a joint, full scale mass casualty exercise involving Baltimore County, the private sector and the State of Maryland in March 20, 2006. The following documents provided input to the time-line, which was then reviewed and tailored by the EDXL Highway Incident Scenario team.
· Maryland Road Rescue 06 Exercise Plan Objectives document
· State of Maryland CHART system (Chesapeake highways Advisory Routing Traffic) automated report generated from the Road Rescue06 exercise. CHART is used as the highway incident reporting tool.
· Exercise time-line series of events – Alvin Marquess, Maryland State Highway Admin (SHA)
Level 1 staging refers to units stopping short of the scene awaiting direction from command.
Level 2 staging refers to all units reporting to a designated staging area and report to the staging officer.
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