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designate staff to provide this function and provide them with the appropriate training based upon guidance from
higher headquarters. Both primary and alternate JIC locations will be pre-identified by emergency power generator
fielding based upon the anticipate load requirements. It is not the responsibility of the EM program to operate or
maintain the JIC unless tasked directly by higher authority.
Chapter 12
Evacuation Management and Mass Care Operations
12–1. Evacuation management
a. Overview. Evacuation management consists of all community preparedness, interagency coordination, dispatch
center, mass warning and notification, installation EOC, and field activities necessary to initiate, manage, and complete
the movement of identified personnel at risk from one or more hazards from the installation to a safe location, whether
on-post safe haven, local civilian shelter, or a remote safe haven at a geographically remote installation or location, and
then return those evacuees back to the installation during the recovery phase. Evacuation removes a population at risk
from one or more hazards and therefore significantly decreases the scope, scale, and impact of the emergency.
Evacuation management must overcome multiple organizational, logistical, and social challenges in a chaotic environment
and requires significant efforts during the preparedness phase, especially in emergency planning and community
preparedness, in order to be executed successfully by the installation commander. Successful evacuation relies upon
close coordination with State and local (or Host Nation) agencies regarding traffic management, evacuation routes, and
the use of mass transit, commercial aviation, and maritime transportation options. Evacuation Management activities
are undertaken as part of the comprehensive effort to reduce the risk associated with hazards identified in chapter 5.
b. Goals. The goals of the evacuation management is (1) to reduce the impact of identified hazards upon the
protected populace by removing all or some of the population at risk to a safer location and (2) to coordinate the
movement of the protected populace during an emergency with movement of identified Category 1 and 5 personnel.
Per DODI 6055.17, DODI 2000.16, DODI 3020.52, DOD 0–2000.12–H, and NFPA 1600, evacuation, rather than the
procurement and employment of protective equipment, is the primary means of addressing hazards faced by the
protected populace.
c. Requirement. All EM programs shall develop, exercise, and maintain procedures for evacuation of all assigned
personnel upon standing, verbal, or written orders of the installation commander. Evacuation management procedures
shall include the capability to direct and manage evacuation of (a) one or more installation zones (see chap 4) to local
safe haven on the installation, (b) one or more installation zones to civilian shelter provided by one or more civil
jurisdictions, (c) one or more installation zones to remote safe haven at a pre-designated, geographically remote
installation or location, and (d) of the entire protected populace simultaneously to a remote safe haven (when the
hazard environment dictates evacuation of the entire population). Evacuation management shall include procedures for
the phased or simultaneous return of evacuees at a local safe haven, civilian shelter, or a remote safe haven to the onpost
residences or businesses during the recovery phase. Evacuation management shall include procedures for the
continuous broadcast communication to evacuees during the entire evacuation process, throughout mass care operations
(as described below), and during the return of evacuees to their residences or workplaces on the installation.
d. Budget and/or resource considerations. Evacuation management is organized and executed largely by taskorganized
teams of existing personnel, additional duty personnel, and volunteers. Nothing within this publication
mandates dedicated personnel, dedicated facilities or transportation capabilities, or the associated resourcing for new
organizations. Per DFAS Manual 37–100, emergency cost accounting codes established during the response phase by
the installation EOC’s finance and administration section shall be utilized to capture the costs associated with activation
and operation of all mass care operations. Associated support contracts shall be activated based upon specified
measures and be contingent on activation for payment.
e. Demographics. Evacuation management procedures rely upon the demographic information collected in chapter 4
to identify planning estimates, identify logistical requirements, guide/predict the actions of the protected populace, and
identify resource needs. Collected demographic information should be compiled and then organized by geographical
area (see installation zoning), type of emergency (aligned with HSA in the installation EM plan), and type of service to
be provided by the Installation. The best practice regarding this organizational challenge is to geo-code relevant
information into the GIS supporting the EOC.
Note. A key source of demographic and evacuation management information regarding certain communities is the FEMA HES
completed for tropical cyclone/hurricane hazards on the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. (Texas to Maine), domestic Caribbean
locations (for example, USVI and Puerto Rico), and select pacific locations. Though developed specific to tropical cyclone/hurricane
hazards and focused on the civilian community, these studies provide extraordinary depth of information on demographics,
infrastructure capacity, and historical trends which are applicable to all evacuation efforts.
f. Impact. Statistical analysis and historical trends can be applied to the assembled demographic and infrastructure
information to identify planning figures for installation zoning, mass warning and notification, evacuation management,
and mass care operations as identified in chapter 4. It is important to coordinate with local civil authorities regarding
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