Emergency Events, What is the Likely Course of
Emergency Events, What is the Likely Course of : (1) It is impossible to predict what will actually happen in an emergency. By their very nature emergencies tend to be sudden and unpredictable. A scenario of events could be as follows: (a) Event occurs and the emergency services respond; (b) Emergency services needing support and resources, notify the Council through CCTV; (c) CCTV contact Emergency Management who commence a call-out of a senior duty officer and directorate representatives; (d) Emergency centre opened, directorate representatives Attend; (e) NSC staff dispatched to the Police incident control (known as "Silver") to act as liaison between the emergency services and local authority; specialist advisers (e.g. Environmental Health Officers, Highways or Building Control staff) may also go to Silver; (f) Injured survivors taken to hospital, uninjured survivors taken to a Survivor Reception Centre (set-up and staffed by the emergency services and NSC with assistance from other agencies); (g) Evacuation of threatened area, the council may provide transport, set up Rest Centres, provide clothing, food and other necessities of life; (h) Call-out of voluntary agencies to support the council e.g. Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS); (i) Liaison established with other responding agencies and the utilities e.g. the Environment Agency; (j) Police set-up a "Gold Control" to determine strategy, NSC liaison officers attend; (k) Recovery working group set-up and chaired by the local Authority; (l) Temporary mortuary set-up; (m) Humanitarian Assistance offered to the Community; (n) Appeal fund launched; (o) Public inquiry. (2) Once the "emergency phase", is over the Chief Constable will hand over the co-ordination of the "recovery phase" to the local authority Chief Executive Officer. (3) The Chief Executive Officer will then Chair the Strategic Recovery Working Group (multi-agency) and the authority will attempt to return the situation to normal as far as possible. This recovery phase is likely to last for several months if not years
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