ITS Element: Los Alamos National Lab Operations

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Description: Los Alamos National Labs has an emergency management operations group that would be important from a statewide transportation standpoint during any emergencies that originate from the Lab.
Status: Existing
Stakeholder: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mapping: Emergency Management
Other Emergency Management

Interfaces:

New Mexico Statewide Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
NMRoads
Regional Emergency Communications Center
Regional Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Service Packages: ATMS08 - Traffic Incident Management System - NMRoads (TM to EM)
EM01 - Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch - Regional PSAPs (1 of 2)
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery - Regional EOC (1 of 3)
EM08 - Disaster Response and Recovery - State EOC (1 of 3)
Functional Requirements:

Emergency Response Management

  • The center shall provide the capability to implement response plans and track progress through the incident by exchanging incident information and response status with allied agencies.
  • The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
  • The center shall track the availability of resources and coordinate resource sharing with allied agency centers including traffic, maintenance, or other emergency centers.
  • The center shall allocate the appropriate emergency services, resources, and vehicle (s) to respond to incidents, and shall provide the capability to override the current allocation to suit the special needs of a current incident.
  • The center shall provide the capability to request transit resource availability from transit centers for use during disaster and evacuation operations.
  • The center shall provide information to the media concerning the status of an emergency response.
  • The center shall provide the capability for center personnel to provide inputs to the management of incidents, disasters and evacuations.

Incident Command

  • The center shall provide tactical decision support, resource coordination, and communications integration for Incident Commands that are established by first responders to support local management of an incident.
  • The center shall provide incident command communications with public safety, emergency management, transportation, and other allied response agency centers.
  • The center shall track and maintain resource information and action plans pertaining to the incident command.
  • The center shall share incident command information with other public safety agencies including resource deployment status, hazardous material information, rail incident information, evacuation advice as well as traffic, road, and weather conditions.
  • The center shall assess the status of responding emergency vehicles as part of an incident command.

Last updated: 10-10-12