Lincoln City Evacuation Plan Revision 8, October 2021

 

The entire evacuation plan is available for download by clicking HERE.

Key Ideas from the Plan:

"Evacuation authority is based upon the decision of the Incident Commander, City Manager, or the City Council. For large-scale emergencies the decision will come from the Lincoln City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) policy group."

  1. General

  1. Evacuation is one means of protecting the public from the effects of a hazard; protection is achieved by moving people away from the hazard. In planning for evacuation, the characteristics of the hazard and its magnitude, intensity, speed of onset, and anticipated duration are all significant factors. These will determine the number of people to be evacuated, the distance people must be moved to ensure their safety, the need for reception facilities, and the extent of traffic control and security required.

  1. The community must be prepared to conduct both small-scale (e.g. single facility or limited local) and large-scale (e.g. extensive local, regional, statewide) evacuations at all times of the day both from known hazard areas and from unexpected incident locations. A General Evacuation Checklist, provided in Appendix 2, has been developed to guide the execution of evacuation operations.

  1. Evacuation Decisions

  1. The Incident Commander shall assess the need for evacuation, plan evacuations, and coordinate support for the evacuation effort. The sections within the template where the information can be located for the specific topics are listed below. Evacuation planning should resolve the following questions:

  1. What areas or facilities are at risk and should be evacuated?

    • “Increased Readiness Levels” section provides guidance to utilize this process which will help the command staff make an accurate decision on affected areas and evacuation procedures.

  1. How will the public be advised of what to do?

    • “Concept of Operations” section includes the warning and public information. This section of the plan will guide the designated PIO for the evacuation on proper PIO techniques.

  1. What do evacuees need to take with them?

    • This will be determined by the command staff and community officials. Consider if the receiving community can support multiple families at once or does the family need to bring along a 72-hour emergency kit that they could subsist off of. It is always recommended for individuals/families to take 72-hour emergency kit always with them no matter what situation is.

  1. What travel routes should be used by evacuees?

    • “Concept of Operations” section contains the transportation, and traffic control area information. This section will enable the command staff to identify the most suitable evacuation routes for the community to get out of harm’s way.

  1. What transportation support is needed? - “Concept  of  Operations”  section  will  help  the  planning  team  identify  the transportation support requirements.  Areas of consideration are special needs population, and terrain/ conditions of the road.

  2. What assistance will the special needs populations require?



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