The mission of emergency services is to save lives, protect property and the environment, assist communities impacted by disasters, and aid recovery during emergencies. You are the emergency manager in a city with a population of 250,000 in the northeastern United States. The fire chief has asked you to draft a briefing for the new fire service recruits explaining the fire department’s responsibility to protect critical infrastructure using the Crisis Event Response Recovery Access (CERRA) framework.
Which of the 3 key infrastructures in your community will be addressed in this exercise?
For each Access Level 1-4, identify which additional resources would need to be employed to assist your fire department during each phase of the response.
Address ways in which these additional resources’ access and re-entry will be managed throughout the incident response.
Explain how control of the access and re-entry process facilitates the critical infrastructure protection in this example within your community.