Transcript 52nd WMD Civil Support Team - Northwest Center for Public

Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Coordinated Response Effort
Capt Holly Shenefelt
Medical Operations Officer
Wyoming 84th Civil Support Team
Agenda
 Brief introduction to the functions and
capabilities of the Civil Support Team
(CST)
 Partnerships
 Successes
 Questions
What Is a Civil Support Team?
Are you familiar with Civil Support
Teams (CSTs) or their functions?
A. Yes
B. No
Situation Example
“We’ve just received a report there’s
been an explosion at the intersection of
Loop 101 and 202,” announced news
anchor Forrest Sawyer with the Virtual
News Network. “At this time, we are not
sure if this explosion is related to the dirty
bomb detonations we’ve seen today in
Guam and Portland, OR.”
Mission
“The WMD CST deploys to support civil
authorities at a domestic chemical,
biological, radiological, nuclear, and [high]
explosive (CBRNE) incident site by
identifying CBR agents/substances,
assessing current and projected
consequences, advising on response
measures and assisting with appropriate
requests for state support.”
What We DO…
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Confirm CHEM and RAD hazards
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Identify BIO agents
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Work directly as a state response asset with
local, state, federal response agencies
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Provide recommendations on event
mitigation, medical treatment, and follow-on
state and federal resources
CST Locations
10th
103rd
83rd
12th
11th
15th
81st
55th
102nd
82nd
101st
54th
84th
95th
8th
85th
5th
73rd
9th
52nd
35th
34th
41st
43rd
47th 46th 4th
6th
1st
13th
14th
21st
31st
32nd
33rd
42nd
45th
61st
64th
CST in every state and territory
(total of 55 teams by 2007)
3rd
53rd
7th
63rd
91st
51st
71st
72nd
92nd
93rd
2nd
62nd
44th
Guam-94th
Puerto Rico–22nd
Organization
Commander
Deputy Commander
First Sergeant
Communication
Element
Medical Element
Survey Element
Operations Officer
Logistics NonCommissioned
Officer (NCO)
Communication
Team
Chief
P.A.
Survey Team
Leader
Operations NCO/
Modeler
Admin NCO
/ASST Decon NCO
System
Information
Tech.
Medical
Operations
Officer
Reconnaissance
NCO
Operations Element Admin/Log Element
Asst. Operations
NCO/Decon NCOIC
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22 Full-time Active
(AGR) Force
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Army and Air National
Guard members
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On call 24/7–365
Nuclear Medical
Science
Officer
Team
Chief
Team
Chief
Team
Team
Member Member
Medical NCO
Team
Team
Member Member
Deployment
Ground
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Local / regional response
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Times vary based on incident
site location
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Goal is four hours presence on
scene (advanced party)
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Partial- or full-team response
Air
Basic Capabilities
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Hazard modeling
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Communications
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Field analysis
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Medical liaison
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Survey operations
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DECON
Training
Exercise
Medical Section
Training
Exercise
Training
Exercise
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Medical surveillance and
emergency treatment of team
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Advice on treatment of WMD
casualties
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Liaison for medical support

Analysis of WMD agents
CST Involvement with Public Health
How involved is the CST in your state
or local public health office?
A. Very involved
B. Somewhat involved
C. Not involved
D. I don’t know
Analytical Lab System (ALS)
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Presumptive analysis of CHEM and BIO agents
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Two internal negative pressure glove boxes
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HAPSITE, FTIR, HAZMAT ID, HHA, Microscope, PCR
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Self-contained 15kw generator
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Operated in the COLD Zone
Footprint
Incident Command and
other responders
Civil Support
Team
Hot zone
Training
Exercise
Questions?
Do you have any questions?
Training
Exercise
Wyoming Partnerships
State level
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All hazards line
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Monthly bioterrorism meeting
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Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee
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Training
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Laboratory
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Glove box
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Sampling video
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Tabletops
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SNS training containers
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Burn Course
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ICS Courses
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Visual DX Software
Wyoming Partnerships (cont.)
Local public health
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Exercises

Call outs
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Equipment familiarity
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Prophylaxis
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Public communication
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Training

First Responders
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Training
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Participation
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Role Play
Successes: North Dakota
 Instructors/evaluators
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Pandemic influenza
scenario
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“Point dispensing”
 Triage lab
Training
Exercise
Successes: Idaho
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Networking
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Exercise
involvement
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Training
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Collaborative
medical surveillance
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Local Emergency
Planning Committee
(LEPC) meetings
Training
Exercise
Successes: Guam
 Pandemic
influenza
preparation
 Airport disaster
 Mass
immunization
 All hazards events
 BT lab set up
Training
Exercise
Successes: Colorado
 Typing resource database for
public health/medical
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Slated to become the national
model for resource typing
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Recently highlighted for their
efforts in a documentary on
9NEWS out of Denver, CO
Successes: Louisiana
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Hand-in-hand relationship
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Katrina
Pandemic flu preparation
SNS coordination
“Development of regional response plans
for smallpox . . . to the coordination between
public health, local hospital and the military
Training
Exercise
for patient evacuation during a crisis . . . to
dealing with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita . . . there is much to be
said for developing a firm relationship with public health entities.”
Summary
 Civil Support Team (CST)
 Partnerships
 Successes
 Plan
 Coordinate
 Communicate
Training
Exercise
Questions?
Do you have any questions?
Training
Exercise
Capt Holly Shenefelt
(307)772-5386
[email protected]
Special Thanks for Contributions

CPT Connelley
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Mr. Moreland
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1LT Nordick
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CPT Perkins
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CPT Strawbridge
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CPT Taylor
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WY State Health Dept Public
Health and Bioterrorism
Program
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84th Civil Support Team
Training
Exercise