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<br /> 48 CITY OF SAN LEANDRO
<br />EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN
<br />• Mutual Aid: Voluntary aid and assistance in the event that a disaster should occur, by the interchange of
<br />services and facilitfes, including, but not limited to, fire, police, medical and health, communicatfon, and
<br />transportatfon services and facilitfes, to cope with the problems of rescue, relief, evacuatfon,
<br />rehabilitatfon, and reconstructfon which would arise in the event of a disaster. Mutual aid ensures that
<br />adequate resources, facilitfes, and other support are provided to jurisdictfons whenever their resources
<br />are inadequate to cope with a given situatfon.
<br />• Operational Area: An intermediate level of the state emergency services organizatfon, consistfng of a
<br />county and all politfcal subdivisions within the county area. The Operatfonal Area is a special-purpose
<br />organizatfon created to prepare for and coordinate the response to emergencies within a county area.
<br />Each county is designated as an Operatfonal Area. The county and the politfcal subdivisions may use an
<br />Operatfonal Area to coordinate emergency actfvitfes and to serve as a link in the system of
<br />communicatfons and coordinatfon between the State's emergency operatfng centers and the operatfng
<br />centers of the politfcal subdivisions comprising the Operatfonal Area. The Operatfonal Area augments
<br />but does not replace any member jurisdictfon.
<br />• Preparedness: Actfons taken before an emergency to develop operatfonal capabilitfes and facilitate an
<br />effectfve response if an emergency occurs. Preparedness measures include contfnuity of government,
<br />emergency communicatfons, emergency operatfons centers, emergency operatfons plans, emergency
<br />public informatfon materials, public educatfon programs, the exercise of plans, mutual aid agreements,
<br />stocking of disaster supplies, training of emergency response personnel, and warning systems.
<br />• Presidential Declaration: A formal declaratfon by the President that an emergency or major disaster
<br />exists based upon the request for such a declaratfon by the Governor and with the verificatfon of Federal
<br />Emergency Management Agency preliminary damage assessments.
<br />• Public Assistance: A supplementary federal assistance provided under the Stafford Act to state and local
<br />jurisdictfons, special purpose districts, tribal districts, or eligible private, nonprofit organizatfons.
<br />• Public Information: Processes, procedures, and systems for communicatfng tfmely, accurate, and
<br />accessible informatfon on the incident's cause, size, and current situatfon; resources committed; and
<br />other matters of general interest to the public, responders, and additfonal stakeholders (both directly
<br />affected and indirectly affected).
<br />• Recovery: An actfvity to return vital life support systems to minimum operatfng standards and long-term
<br />actfvity designed to return life to normal or improved levels, including some form of economic viability.
<br />Recovery measures include but are not limited to crisis counseling, damage assessment, debris
<br />clearance, disaster loans and grants, disaster unemployment assistance, public informatfon,
<br />reassessment of emergency plans, reconstructfon, temporary housing, and full-scale business
<br />resumptfon.
<br />• Resources: Personnel and major equipment, supplies, and facilitfes available or potentfally available for
<br />assignment to incident operatfons and for which status is maintained. Resources are described by kind
<br />and type and may be used in operatfonal support or supervisory capacitfes at an incident or an
<br />Emergency Operatfons Center.
<br />• Resource Management: Efficient emergency management and incident response requires a system for
<br />identffying available resources at all jurisdictfonal levels to enable tfmely and unimpeded access to
<br />resources needed to prepare for, respond to, or recover from an incident. Resource management under
<br />the Natfonal Incident Management System includes mutual aid and assistance agreements, special
<br />federal, state, tribal, and local teams, and resource mobilizatfon protocols.
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