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Ocean Shores committee reviews scalable earthquake response plan with new tsunami appendix
Summary
Emergency management staff presented a 20-page, scalable earthquake response plan with an informational tsunami appendix and urged the city to identify more short-term shelters and coordinate with hotels; plan rollout is pending additional USGS and Washington State EMD science.
Emergency management staff member Mike Mandela told the Ocean Shores Public Safety Committee on Feb. 17 that the city’s draft earthquake emergency response plan has been expanded with an informational tsunami appendix and is intentionally scalable to incidents of varying size.
Mandela, who led the presentation, said the plan breaks response into the first four hours, then 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours and beyond, and prioritizes life rescue and rapid windshield surveys to build a common operating picture. "Everything is covered, and you only use the parts of the plan that are appropriate for what you're seeing when you go out and do your windshield surveys and you get a…
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