Coordinating GIS for EMS and Fire Services
Frandford
Mutual Aid Fire Training Assoc www.frandford.org
(version
03-2005 prepared by Vicki Schmidt)
Program Goals
* To create and establish a regional (mutual
aid) Fire & EMS Response program that provides situational awareness
information for everyday operational needs. This program will also contain an
ability to expand and include multi-regional and statewide response variables
as needed.
* To enable capabilities for rapid emergency
decision making on a local, regional, multi-regional and statewide basis.
* To design and implement a locally based
interactive and non-static GIS and tabular data entry system to maintain and
display local, regional, multi-regional and statewide Fire and EMS response
variables.
* The program will also provide spatial
information and response logistics for mutual aid training and pre-planning
activities.
The program must
contain a user-friendly intuitive interface. In
addition to basic functions, the geospatial interface will include status bars
for showing information from query results such as station ID or name, name of
current incident location, measurement tools results, current scale of map, X/Y
coordinates, etc.
Once a site has been
selected, data is automatically queried and access to all available information
on the location as well as information concerning the type of situation is
quickly displayed. The program will
provide response variables for desktop, laptop, and field use and also have
functional production mapping capabilities.
Regional Response Programs
Automatic and mutual aid
Cooperative planning
Station and apparatus
locations
Training
Annual refreshers
New technologies
Retention and skills
building
Situational Awareness
Training
Operational needs
Training activities
Incident response
Response logistics
Rapid emergency
decision-making
Every day needs vs. WMD & major
events
Program Design
User-friendly
Intuitive interface
Spatial (shapefiles,
geodatabases, etc)
Tabular (Microsoft Access)
Ability to:
store, updates & present regional information (3-4
alarm) automatically
merge with neighboring
regions for mass casualty/large incident response
Desktop & apparatus laptop,
field use (wired & wireless)
Production mapping capabilities
Process for storing, updating, maintaining, and distributing
data.
Data warehouse:
Web based (off-the-shelf technologies)
Regional locations
(short term) and/or statewide (long term)
Database driven –automatic and “real
time”
Accessibility –
Data development,
updates
Automatic notification
when mutual aid towns input updates
Viewers and user access
secure/pwd login
Access to Data (24 hour)
Unadvertised website / webportal
Secure Logins
Viewers
Users
Data developers
Encryption
Prelan Template
Information* (ODP, DHS, MEMA guidelines)
General Information
Images
Building Information
Response Plans
Site & Situation Specific Incident Action Plans (fire,
bomb scare, toxic fumes, etc)
Communication Plans
Situation Reports
Organizational Chart for
responders & incident response
Program for electronic pre-plans (PIPS Software *)
·
Display
floor plan or photo for selected building/site
·
Display
pre-plan and intelligence data on location
·
Incident
and pre-plan drive time analyses
·
Identify response
zone (alarm) characteristics
·
Automatic links to
CAD (computer aided dispatch) data
·
Immediate notice of
hazmat / hazardous conditions (known & seek out)
·
Incident
location and routing from station and other state and regional locations
·
Inspection
/ occupancy information
·
Exposure
& evacuation information
·
Hydrography,
hydrants, water resource location & staging
·
Remove
added graphics/points from screen
·
Identify
locations and items on map, measure distances, etc
·
Create a
distance buffer/circular area & identify features within the area
·
Pan
across the geospatial database
·
Zoom
in/out a fixed amount; full extent; or previous
·
Print
quality maps and information reports
·
Coordination
with ODP, DHS, MEMA, FMO programs (MFIRS, Cameo, etc)
·
Coordination
with others (Lifeflight, etc)
Data needs:
Base Data for region:
Hydrography
Transportation routes, railroads,
remote access
Political boundaries
Contours (>15% slope)
High Voltage Transmission Lines
Floodplain & impoundment hazards
Land
use, impervious, etc
Remotely sensed data (raster)
Pre – Plans
Major facilities /critical
infrastructure
Scaled maps
Facility structure,
components, etc
Machinery /
Lockout – tagout
Utilities
Staging Areas
IC posts - viewsheds
Inventory of Response
Assets
Department:
1-4 alarm (based on
local districts)
Apparatus
Capacity
values
Appliances, etc
Staff (FF's, fire
police, HazMat, etc)
Resource Typing
(local / regional)
HazMat
WMD Decon / Response
Low-High-Steep Angle
Confined Space
Cold-Swift Water
Animal Rescue
Others
Ancillary Data: (E911
incident / facility specific)
Fire /EMS locations
Hydrants (dry, pressurized, etc)
Fire
ponds, drafting sites (seasonal accessibility variables)
FF Hazards
Residential oxygen
(medical)
Confided spaces
Others ?
Lock out / tag out
Machinery
Elevators
Landing Zones
Alarm response region data
Fire Districts
Interface
Risk Zones
Tankers, Engines,
Forestry,
Cascade systems, HazMat
vehicles
* derived from ODP,
DHS, FEMA & NFPA guidelines
Keys to success:
Multidisciplinary (fire, ems,
business owners, school administrators, etc)
Common goal
Promoting awareness and
preparedness
Local, regional,
mulit-regional, statewide response variables
One system to work with – regional
& state basis
Acronyms and ID’s
DHS Department of Homeland Security
EMS Emergency Medical Services
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FMO Fire Marshall’s Office (Maine)
MEMA Maine Emergency Management Agency
NFPA National Fire Protection Agency
ODP Office of Domestic Prepardness
Quick link summary
Universal application
for response protocols for Mutual Aid throughout the State of Maine
* automatic service
to State and County computer-aided dispatch data;
* incident drive time
directions and analyses (networked roadway)
* highlights known
hazmat & hazard locations;
*
inspection/occupancy tracking;
* link pre-plans
* incident analysis
* station location
coverage / response analysis
* customized reports
* hydrography
coverage
* locations of
railways, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, etc.;
* compare incident
data with demographic information
* urban & rural
water resources mapping