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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Climate change and human population growth are increasing the frequency, severity, and impact of natural disasters across the Western United States. As increasing aridity exposes wildland and agricultural ecosystems to greater risk of drought and fires, stronger intensity of summer rainstorms is exposing low-lying and riparian areas to greater risk of destructive floods. Meanwhile, growth of human populations and economies is expanding and intensifying...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
This guide is designed to help you gather necessary information, make assessments, answer questions and make the best business decisions for you and your company. Each section has a "Notes" section added, where you can write items that were not covered or may be unique to your business. If a section has a star (±), that means there are additional worksheets in the back of the guide that will make it easier to gather and organize the information needed....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA), under the direction of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), released a guidance document in May 2007 entitled: EMS Pandemic Influenza Guidelines for Statewide Adoption as part of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan. The document includes strategies for developing both EMS response guidelines and 9-1-1 call taking and dispatching protocols that would...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This Emergency Response Guide serves as the standardized guide to be used by State employees during emergency situations. All employees should be familiar with this guide to quickly find information when an emergency does occur. All employees are expected to cooperate with the implementation of these procedures during real emergencies as well as exercises designed to test these procedures. This document is not intended to replace standard operating...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) is a set of articles that outlines responsibilities and protections afforded between states and U.S. territories when providing disaster assistance. The process starts with an emergency or disaster declaration by the Governor of an affected state (also known as the Requesting State). Once the declaration is established, the Requesting State makes known ts needs via a Request for Assistance (REQ-A)...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The purpose of the Colorado State Emergency Operations Plan (SEOP) is to outline general guidelines on how the State carries out its response and recovery responsibilities to address an emergency or disaster event. Major emergencies and disasters are complex events that present communities and emergency personnel with extraordinary problems and challenges that cannot be adequately addressed within the routine operations of local government. The SEOP...
127) Guidance for alterations in the healthcare system during a moderate to severe influenza pandemic
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A pandemic will dramatically strain medical resources and possibly require a shift in medical resources from a standard of care focused on the individual patient to an altered standard that does the most good for the most patients. With that in mind, this guidance document seeks to present a basis for allocating health and medical resources in Colorado during an influenza pandemic. The goal of this process is to provide ethical, reasonable, transparent...
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A comprehensive summary of Colorado's public health emergency response planning efforts at the state level. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Emergency Preparedness and Response Division guides all local public health efforts within Colorado in public health emergency response planning, requesting that they meet the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Public Health Preparedness and Response Cooperative Agreement...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The purpose of the State Emergency Operations Plan (SEOP) is to identify the roles, responsibilities and actions of State government in disasters. Emergency operations plans address the ability to direct, control, coordinate and manage emergency operations. Each level of government should respond to an incident using its available resources, to include the use of mutual aid, and may request assistance from the next higher level of government, if required...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In the last 20 years, wildland fires in Colorado have increased in frequency and severity. This has resulted in lengthy and costly community and natural resource recoveries. As our communities continue to grow into the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), more residents are subject to post-fire impacts such as flooding, debris flows, and other natural hazards exacerbated by fire. While recovery from a wildland fire begins and ends locally, there are many...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In recent years, the State of Colorado and its disaster-impacted communities have gained significant experience in implementing recovery projects and integrating resiliency concepts into recovery operations. Colorado seeks to demonstrate that resiliency does not only apply when a disaster occurs, but rather applies in the day-to-day business of State government and Colorado communities. There must be continued commitment to resiliency at the highest...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After the rain began to fall on September 11, 2013, the sheer scope of Colorado's worst natural disaster was staggering. In the span of 3 days, unprecedented levels of rain fell on 24 counties and sent high-velocity floodwater coursing through narrow mountain canyons and onto the plains below. More than 18,000 people were forced to evacuate their communities. The floodwaters ripped apart homes, lives and communities. The real story of the Flood of...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The purpose of the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) Recovery Plan is to outline the coordination and support activities that occur in the recovery phase following a chemical event at Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD). The term "recovery" includes measures to assess the hazard and perform other urgent tasks in the area affected by the emergency; a controlled process for reentry, restoration, and remediation; and provision of services...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The year following Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed the Pet Evacuation and Transportation and Safety (PETS) Act. The Act required state and local jurisdictions to have a plan in place for the evacuation and sheltering of household pets and service animals in order to receive Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reimbursement. The PETS Act codified the lessons learned during Hurricane Katrina that saving pets in times of disaster also saves...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On August 5, 2015, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) work crew digging into the Gold King Mine (GKM) Level 7 adit near Gladstone, Colorado, triggered a blowout and on going discharge of impounded mine water. The EPA reported that more than 3 million gallons of acidic mine water containing sediment, heavy metals, and other chemicals discharged into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River, and into New Mexico where the Animas River...
