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<br />Ramsey County-Wide Emergency Operations Plan <br /> <br />R<Wision 5.1, June, 2005 <br /> <br />Responding agencies have Core Competencies, such as those depicted <br />in the NIMS Structure diagram above. The agencies representing the <br />initially affected (or "requesting") municipality have the authority to direct <br />operations related to their Core Competencies at incidents, including <br />giving tactical direction by the ranking officer to other agencies performing <br />operations within that competency <br /> <br />If the initially affected municipality requests resources which that <br />municipality does not provide on its own (for instance, a state bomb <br />squad), the ranking officer of that resource has authority to direct <br />operations related to its Core Competency, including giving tactical <br />direction by the ranking officer to other agencies performing operations <br />within that competency. <br /> <br />Sample Unified Command Matrix <br /> <br />INCIDENT TYPE PRIMARY AGENCIES <br />Aviation Incident Municipal Fire Department <br /> MAC <br /> Municipal Law Enforcement AClencv <br />Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Municipal Fire Department <br />Nudear (CBRN) I Haz-Mat Incident State HazMat team <br />Countywide Public Health Emergency SPRCDPH <br /> MDH <br />Explosion Municipal Fire Department <br /> Municipal Law Enforcement Agency <br /> State Bomb Sauad <br />Natural Disaster I Weather Emergency Municipal Fire Department <br /> EMHS <br /> Public Works <br /> MnDOT <br />Power Outage Municipal Law Enforcement Agency <br /> Public Works <br /> Utility Provider <br />Rail Incident Municipal Fire Department <br />Telecommunications Outage Municipal and County IS <br /> Telecommunications Provider <br /> PSAP's <br />Utility Incident Municipal Fire Department <br />Water Main Break Municipal Fire Department <br /> Public Works <br /> <br />The Planning Section Chief develops the lAP, which is approved by the <br />UC. The Operations Section Chief directs the tactical implementation of <br />the lAP. All participants agree on the designation of the Operations <br />Section Chief. <br /> <br />EMHS, as the County's Coordinating Agency, will respond to multi-agency <br />incidents and participate in the Unified Command. EMHS is responsible <br />for coordinating resources from Emergency Support Function agencies, <br />relaying situation information to the County's and the affected City's <br />Emergency Operations Center, and supporting logistics needs. <br /> <br />36 <br />