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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04251989 - 2.1 a � To BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Phil Batchelor , County Administrator Cwtra Cx)sta DATE: April 25, 1989 C,ay" '•7 SUBJECT: County Response to Fire/Explosion Incident at Chevron Refinery, Richmond, on April 10, 1989 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECC04EHDAT1ON(S) & BACKGROUND AY40 JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION Accept report from County Administrator on the county' s response to the explosion and ensuing fire which occured at the Richmond Chevron Refinery on April 10, 1989. BACKGROUND At 12: 46 p.m. on April 10, 1989, an explosion occurred at the Chevron Refinery in the City of Richmond . The. Richmond Fire Department called the Sheriff ' s Dispatch Center in Martinez requesting activation of the Multi-Casualty Incident Plan . Under such plan , Sheriff ' s dispatch personnel automatically notify certain agencies such as hospitals, ambulances, county health officer, Emergency Medical Services (ENS) , Office of Emergency Services (OES) , etc . Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel responded to the dispatch center to survey the capability of hospitals to receive patients and to direct ambulances to the appropriate facilities based on available bed capacity and the type of treatment needed by the victims. For example, in this case, some of the victims were directed to Brookside Hospital to receive services of the 1pecial burn unit located in that facility. See attached EMS report. Upon hearing about the incident on the radio, the County Administrator immediately telephoned the County Medical Director and County Emergency Services Director to determine what information was available. ("he County Administrator arrived at the Office of Emergency Services at about 1 :40 p.m. After conferring with EVIS and OES staff regarding the severity of the incident, at 1 :50 p.m. , the County Administrator directed that all Service Chiefs be called to the county' s emergency operating center. DES staff notified the Sheriff , Chief of Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, County Medical Director, County Public Works Director, County Social Services Director and Director of Community Development. In addition , Red Cross and RACES ( ham radio operators) reported to the EOC as well as Service Chief support staff . All members of the Board of Supervisors were notified . CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _.$.. YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RkCOMMENDATION OF ARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER S I GNATUR_E(S 1: _ ACTION OF BOARD ON _ April 25, 1989 A'?PROVED AS RECC..aw FmDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT I=.ND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: _ NOES. AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: County Administrator ATTESTED A-eZ o?f /98q Director, OES PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Health Services Director SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY -,DEPUTY M382/7-83 Activation of the county EOC worked well . All Service Chiefs or their representatives reported to the EOC within about 45 minutes from the time notification was initiated . The EOC personnel monitored the incident and received information from a variety of sources including Richmond Fire Department, Richmond Police Department, State OES, Chevron, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAdMD) , County Environmental Health and Emergency Medical Services. Red Cross and Social Services personnel prepared for the possible establishment of evacuation shelters. Shelters were identified and shelter managers put on alert. Personnel in the Richmond Unified School District were notified of the potential use of certain school sites as shelters. EOC personnel notified the California Highway Patrol and CalTrans in the event their assistance would be needed . Fortunately, the fire was contained to a small area and was stabilized within a few hours even though the fire continued to burn and emit a large amount of smoke. The county EOC continued to monitor the situation , ceasing activation at 5:30 p.m. Although mutual aid from the county was not required in this incident, activation of the county' s EOC was a valuable test of our own capabilities to respond to an emergency situation . In addition to the monitoring done by EDC personnel , direct assistance was provided by EMS staff who coordinated hospital /ambulance operations and by County Environmental Health personnel who were at the incident scene to monitor air quality. GB:af SEAL Health Services Department OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 65 50 Glacier Drive Martinez,California 94553-4822 (415)646-4690 rd COr T _ — ',cAtiti4 Tq co April 19, 1989 TO: Gary B own FROM: A t La rop SUBJ: Summary of April 10, 1989, Multicasualty Incident at Chevron This is a summary of the activation of the County's Multicasualty Incident (MCI) Plan in response to the fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond on April 10, 1989. The purpose of the MCI plan is to establish a system for the management of medical resources in response to incidents which overwhelm or threaten to overwhelm the medical resources of one area of the County. Activation of the MCI Plan sets in motion a series of steps in which Sheriff's dispatch notifies designated personnel, agencies, and medical facilities and ambulance response and patient transport is directed from Sheriff's dispatch. One objective of the MCI Plan is to assure that patients are dispersed to appropriate hospitals where they can obtain prompt care. Responsibility for initiating the MCI Plan rests with the Incident Commander. On April 10, 1989, at 12:57 p.m. , Sheriff's dispatch was notified by Richmond Fire that the MCI Plan was being initiated. In accordance with the Plan, Sheriff's dispatch began determining the capabilities of all hospitals to receive incident patients and notifying the following: On-call health officer - EMS call roster - All ambulance services - OES on-call personnel - County fire coordinator - Environmental Health on-call personnel - Coroner Adjacent county ambulance dispatch centers In addition to these notifications, a Sheriff's unit is dispatched to the scene to provide intelligence and Consolidated Fire is requested to respond their communications van. The ambulance provider, in this area Regional Ambulance, responds a supervisory unit. The Health Officer and EMS staff were notified within minutes and responded to A344 (8,68) Contra Costa County Sheriff's dispatch to assume responsibility for coordination of hospital resources. Six ambulances and two medical helicopters were dispatched to the scene. Altogether, eight patients - three "criticals" and five "non-criticals" - were transported to hospitals. Five ambulance units and one medical helicopter were utilized to transport the patients as follows: - 13:37 1 patient Brookside Regional 16 - 13:34 2 patients Brookside LifeFlight (Stanford) helicopter - 13:41 1 patient Brookside Regional 22 - 13:54 1 patient Kaiser-Richmond Regional 15 - 13:56 2 patients Alta Bates Regional 13 - 14:23 1 patient . Doctors' Regional 12 At approximately 15:39, the MCI was downgraded by Richmond Fire to a "medical advisory alert" and medical resources other than those requested to remain on scene were released. A Regional supervisory unit, a Regional ambulance unit, and a medical helicopter (LifeFlight-Davis) remained on scene. At approximately 16:59, the medical advisory alert was secured with the concurrence of the Health Officer and Richmond Fire. This was the second MCI at the Chevron complex in three days. Richmond Fire activated the MCI Plan Saturday, April 8th, for an unrelated incident at the Chevron Research facility. EMS has conducted a debriefing for the April 8th MCI and is scheduling a debriefing for the April 10th MCI. cc: Mark Finucane William B. Walker, M.D.