Agency CoordinationJohn Warren LCRA

Bastrop Fire Coordination Lessons Learned

Entity Coordination

Bastrop Command Center

Entities Involved

• Federal Type One Incident Team

• State Fire Officials• Local Fire Officials• Police • Utility• Emergency Medical• Volunteers

LCRA TSC CoordinationNormal Operations

Communications

• Transmission Field Operation

• Transmission Maintenance Personnel

• Cooperatives• Municipalities

Additional Fire Event Communications

• Federal Type One Incident Management

• State Fire Officials• Local Fire Officials• Police• Office of Emergency

Management

Known Additional Communications

• Coordination with LCRA office emergency management

• Local Fire Official Coordination

• Additional Cooperative Communications

• Additional Communication with LCRA Management Team

What Happens Next!

• Reported Fire Phone Calls

–What is a good call and a bad call?

•Communication is the Key

• Dispatch of Field Personnel

Unknown Additional Communications Requirements• Federal Type One Incident Management– LCRA TSC Assigned Liaison• 24X7 with Prints

• Field Personnel Fire Location Identification

• Equipment Return To Service Coordination– Extended Outages

• Employee Communications– Employee Home in the fire zone

• Water and Wastewater Return to Service

What Is Your Next Event

Are You Prepared?

• Up to date Procedures

• Phone List

• Other Entities

• Personnel Cross Trained

Event Types

• Natural Disasters?– Fire?, Hurricane?

• Is it Sabotage?• Health Epidemic?• Drought?• EEA?• Black start?