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Rio Grande Valley SectorCBP within FEMA Region VIOffice of Incident ManagementOperations Officer Juan A. Garces
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Oscar Silva Jr.
Border Patrol Agent Ricardo Cantu
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CBP within FEMA Region VI: Mission
To contribute toward the effectiveness of the Customs & Border Protection mission and preparedness efforts through the coordination of multi-component and inter/intra-agency operational activities including technical standards, contingency planning and training through exercises and readiness assessments.
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• CBP components in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana make up Region VI
• Chief Patrol Agent Rosendo Hinojosa is currently the CBP Lead Field Coordinator (LFC) within FEMA Region VI
• The LFC and the Deputy Field Coordinators have a clear area of responsibility to coordinate a CBP regional response during an emergency
CBP within FEMA Region VI Regional Incident Management Construct
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CBP within FEMA Region VI All Threats Preparedness
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Background
• Master Exercise Practitioner, certified by FEMA. • Have done Emergency Management for the U.S. Border Patrol for five years (collateral duty).
• Served as the Hurricane Isaac Task Force Commander for Region VI.
• Serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve: Intelligence, Operations, Training, Logistics and Emergency Response (Support Civil Authorities).
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Why have exercises?
• Enables entities to identify strengths and incorporate them within best practices to sustain and enhance existing capabilities. • Provide objective assessments of gaps and shortfalls within plans, policies and procedures to address areas of improvement.
• Help clarify roles and responsibilities.
Practice! Practice! Practice!
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Why have exercises?
• Virginia Tech shooting; Apr 16, 2007, 7:15 a.m., 32 deaths. • Sandy Hook Elementary shooting; Dec 14, 2012, 9:30 a.m., 27 deaths.
• Boston Marathon Bombings; Apr 15, 2013, 2:19 p.m., 3 deaths, 282 injured.
• Cummings Middle School (Brownsville, TX); 1 death
• Alton school bus accident (Alton, TX); 21deaths, 49 injured
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Types of Exercise (Three Types)
1. Tabletop (TTX): simulates an emergency situation in an informal, stress-free environment.
• Participants are usually at the decision making level.
• Gather around a table to discuss general problems and procedures of an emergency scenario.
• Focus is on training and familiarization w/ roles, procedures or responsibilities.
* Purpose: solve problems as a group
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Types of Exercise (Three Types)2. Functional (FX): simulates an emergency situation in the most realistic manner possible, short of moving real people and equipment.
• Interactive, designed to challenge the entire emergency management system.
• Takes place in an Emergency Operations Center.
• Players practice their response to an emergency by responding in a realistic manner.
• Decisions and actions occur in real time (imitate reality)
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Types of Exercise (Three Types)3. Full-Scale (FSX): is close to the real thing as possible. It’s a lengthy exercise which takes place on location using the equipment and personnel that would be called upon in a real event.
• Interactive, designed to challenge the entire emergency management system in a highly realistic and stressful environment.
• Players represent all levels of personnel.
• Achieves realism thru: on-scene actions/decisions, simulated victims, search & rescue, communications, equipment deployment and actual resource & personnel allocation.
• Requires significant investment of time and effort and resources.
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NIMS
• Establishes flexible incident management protocols and procedures that all responders —federal, state, and local utilize to conduct and coordinate response actions.
• Sets forth a core set of concepts, principles, terminology, and organizational processes to enable effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management at all levels of government.
National Incident Management System
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RGV Sector - Office of Incident ManagementAligned to respond and support any Incident
of National Significance:
• Terrorism: IED Chemical Biological
• Border Violence• Natural Disasters:
Hurricanes Floods Tornadoes Earthquakes
• Pandemics: Avian flu H1N1
• Mass Migration• Extreme Weather Conditions:
Extreme Heat Winter Freeze
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Local and Federal Partnership
• Lower RGV & Coastal Bend Council of Government (COG) Integration
• Homeland Security Advisory Committee (HSAC)
• Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) – Ad Hoc Panel Member
• Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC) – (McAllen/Weslaco)
• Cameron County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
• Nueces, Cameron, Willacy, Hidalgo, Starr & Webb County Emergency Management Coordinators
• Rio Grande Regional Response Association (RGRRA)
• Regional Communication Interoperability System Committee
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