Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Coordinated Response Effort Capt Holly Shenefelt Medical Operations Officer Wyoming 84 th Civil Support Team.

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

“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.”

Situation Example

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…

Confirm CHEM and RAD hazards

Identify BIO agents

Work directly as a state response asset with

local, state, federal response agencies

Provide recommendations on event mitigation, medical treatment, and follow-on state and federal resources

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CST in every state and territory (total of 55 teams by 2007)

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OrganizationCommander

Deputy CommanderFirst Sergeant

Operations OfficerLogistics Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO)

Operations NCO/Modeler

Asst. Operations NCO/Decon NCOIC

Admin/Log ElementCommunication

Element

Admin NCO/ASST Decon NCO

Survey Team Leader

Medical Operations

Officer

Survey Element

P.A.

System Information

Tech.

Team Chief

Nuclear Medical ScienceOfficer

Medical NCO

Operations Element

Communication Team Chief

Medical Element

Team Chief

TeamMember

TeamMember

TeamMember

TeamMember

22 Full-time Active (AGR) Force

Army and Air National Guard members

On call 24/7–365

Reconnaissance NCO

Deployment

Local / regional response

Times vary based on incident site location

Goal is four hours presence on scene (advanced party)

Partial- or full-team responseAir

Ground

Basic CapabilitiesHazard modeling

Communications

Field analysis

Medical liaison

Survey operations

DECON

Training Exercise

Medical Section

Medical surveillance and emergency treatment of team

Advice on treatment of WMD casualties

Liaison for medical support

Analysis of WMD agents

Training Exercise

Training Exercise

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)

Presumptive analysis of CHEM and BIO agents

Two internal negative pressure glove boxes

HAPSITE, FTIR, HAZMAT ID, HHA, Microscope, PCR

Self-contained 15kw generator

Operated in the COLD Zone

Footprint

Civil Support Team

Incident Command and other responders

Hot zoneTraining Exercise

Questions?

Do you have any questions?

Training Exercise

Wyoming PartnershipsState level All hazards line

Monthly bioterrorism meeting

Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee

Training Laboratory

Glove box

Sampling video

Tabletops

SNS training containers

Burn Course

ICS Courses

Visual DX Software

Wyoming Partnerships (cont.)Local public health

Exercises

Call outs

Equipment familiarity

Prophylaxis

Public communication

Training

First Responders Training

Participation

Role Play

Successes: North Dakota Instructors/evaluators

Pandemic influenza scenario

“Point dispensing”

Triage lab

Training Exercise

Successes: Idaho Networking

Exercise involvement

Training

Collaborative medical surveillance

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

Slated to become the national model for resource typing

Recently highlighted for their efforts in a documentary on 9NEWS out of Denver, CO

Hand-in-hand relationship Katrina Pandemic flu preparation SNS coordination

Successes: Louisiana

“Development of regional response plans for smallpox . . . to the coordination betweenpublic health, local hospital and the militaryfor 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.”

Training Exercise

Summary Civil Support Team (CST) Partnerships Successes

Plan Coordinate Communicate

Training Exercise

Capt Holly Shenefelt

(307)772-5386

[email protected]

Questions?

Do you have any questions?

Training Exercise

Special Thanks for Contributions CPT Connelley

Mr. Moreland

1LT Nordick

CPT Perkins

CPT Strawbridge

CPT Taylor

WY State Health Dept Public Health and Bioterrorism Program

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