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'LLIS.gov' Intelligence and Information Sharing Resources
"Lessons Learned Information Sharing ( LLIS.gov ) is the Department of Homeland Security's national, online network of lessons learned and best practices for the emergency response and homeland security communities. This initiative, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), helps emergency response providers and homeland security officials prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. LLIS.gov provides Federal, State, and local responders information and front-line expertise on effective planning, training, and operational practices."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Radiation Screening: Securing a Site After Detection of Unknown Radiological Source
"Law enforcement personnel conducting radiation screening of shipments must secure the site immediately after detection of a potentially illicit radiological source. This action is critical to help these officers protect the public."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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School Safety: Installing a Secondary Lock Box
"Schools should install a secondary lock box on the outside of the building to ensure that emergency personnel can safely access at least one of the lock boxes during an active shooter incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Law Enforcement: Securing Vehicle and Driver During Radiological Screening
"Law enforcement personnel must secure both driver and vehicle during radiological screening if the shipment transported is suspected to be illicit. This can help officers protect the public as well as the cargo."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Mass Decontamination: Scanning Victims for the Successful Removal of Contaminants
"Response personnel conducting decontamination operations should ensure that a hazardous materials (HazMat) team member with appropriate instrumentation is posted at the terminus of the decontamination line to scan victims for the successful removal of contaminants."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Law Enforcement: Ensuring That Instructions and Signage Directing Drivers at Inspection Stations Are Clear and Concise
"Law enforcement personnel should ensure that instructions and signage directing drivers at inspection stations are clear and concise."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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School Evacuations: Sending an Employee Ahead of Evacuees to Gather Timely Information on the Evacuation Route
"School administrators should consider sending an employee ahead of the main evacuation party to gather timely information on the evacuation route. This enables school administrators to modify the route due to traffic or other factors."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Exercise Design: Explaining Artificialities Prior to Exercises
"Exercise planners should ensure that exercise artificialities are thoroughly explained and disseminated to participants prior to conducting exercises."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Hurricane Preparedness Exercises: Frequently Asked Questions
Department of Homeland Security provided frequently asked questions regarding the 2006 Hurricane Preparedness Exercises (HPE) along the U.S. Gulf Coast and Eastern Seabord.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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The Nuts and Bolts of These Community Preparedness Recognition Programs
This presentation was given at the 2006 Virginia Emergency Management Conference: Quarterbacking Emergency Management. The briefing describes StormReady and TsunamiReady, two grassroots programs designed to improve communications and hazard preparedness in communities. The initial briefing was followed by a discussion of the National Hurricane Center's new probability products, which improve the means of conveying forecast uncertainty to users.
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Special Event Planning: Providing Full-Time Clerical Support to Planners
"Full-time clerical support should be available to special event planners. This will allow the planners to focus fully on their planning and coordination responsibilities."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS); United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Disabilities and Special Needs: Duval County, Florida, Health Department's 'Adopt-A-Shelter' Program in Florida
"The Duval County Health Department in Florida developed an 'Adopt-a-Shelter' program in which each local hospital provides staff members and medical supplies to a special needs shelter during an emergency."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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High-Rise Fires: Obtaining Pre-Incident Site Plans Upon Arrival at the Incident Site
Fire departments should require the incident commander (IC) to obtain a building's pre-incident plan upon arrival at a high-rise fire.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services: 2017 Annual Report
"The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) (hereafter referred to as the 'Committee' or 'DACOWITS') was established in 1951 with a mandate to provide the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) with independent advice and recommendations on matters and policies relating to servicewomen in the Armed Forces of the United States. The Committee is composed of no more than 20 members who are appointed by the SecDef and serve in a voluntary capacity for 1- to 4-year terms. Each December, the Committee selects study topics to examine during the following year. For 2017, DACOWITS studied 13 topics. The Committee gathered information from multiple sources in examining these topics; for example, briefings and written responses from Department of Defense (DoD), Service-level military representatives, and subject matter experts; data collected from focus groups and interactions with Service members during installation visits; and peer-reviewed literature. Based upon the data collected and analyzed, DACOWITS offers 17 recommendations, which follow."
United States. Department of Defense
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Biological Terrorism: Anthrax Spores Re-Aerosolization
"During and after a suspected biological incident, certain environments, such as mail sorting facilities, may facilitate re-aerosolization of biological agents. This may persist even after time has elapsed and sorting machinery has been cleaned with bleach."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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[Continuity Assessment Tool]
"The purpose of a continuity plan and program is to ensure than an organization can perform its essential functions and provide critical services no matter the threat or hazard faced. Developing continuity metrics and then evaluating and assessing continuity plans and programs against these metrics is an important step for planners and managers. By examining areas for improvement and areas of strength, organizations can better prioritize and resource continuity needs and gaps."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Whole Community Continuity: National Continuity Programs
"Every day, individuals, organizations, communities, and governments provide critical services and perform essential functions upon which neighbors and citizens depend. Continuity ensures that the whole community plans for sustaining these services and functions when normal operations are disrupted. Implementation of continuity principles ensures that organizations, communities, and governments are able to support citizens in need. Development and maintenance of continuity capabilities helps build and sustain a more resilient Nation equipped to sustain essential functions, deliver critical services, and supply core capabilities under all conditions."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 17 Issue 39, September 28, 2017
The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "FirstNet Update"; "Hemorrhage Control for Law Enforcement"; "NASEMSO Releases Updated EMS Clinical Guidelines"; and "'Adopt an EMS Family' Program Aids Those Impacted by Hurricanes."
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
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Instructor Guide: Orientation and Exercise Course, Weapons of Mass Destruction: Biological - Anthrax Scenario
"The primary purpose of this course is to improve the ability of local governments to prepare for, manage, and respond to mass casualty terrorism incidents involving the use of WMD - for this course, biological terrorism."
Emergency Management Institute (U.S.)
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Lessons Learned Specialist/Advisor Training: Terminology
Definition of terms used in Specialist/Advisor Training for the Lessons Learned department of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Public Safety & Security Program: Keep America Moving Through Emergencies and National Security Events
"When disaster strikes, America's transportation system is its lifeline. The transportation system conveys those at risk away from danger, and provides access to emergency response and recovery units. If your community is not actively planning to optimize the operation and coordination of its transportation system during natural disasters or national security events, there's a missing link in your emergency preparedness plans."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
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AHRQ's Role in Public Health Emergency Preparedness (Presentation)
This presentation highlights the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's continual research projects aimed at increasing the capabilities of health care providers.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Web Portal School Response System
The Pierce Responder System is used for pre-incident school violence planning and can be a valued asset when responding to a school emergency. The Pierce Responder System stores the database for school information and enables users to access, view, and display and map the information.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Critical Incident Stress Management: Attendance of Command Officials at Debriefings
"Emergency response agencies often require or recommend that their personnel attend a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) debriefing session following a major incident. Command officials should consider not attending the entire debriefing session so that their personnel feel comfortable discussing their concerns and frustrations about the incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Large-Scale Logistics Operations: Locating the Logistics Center Outside of the Security Perimeter
"During a large-scale emergency response, a logistics center should be established 'outside' of the site's security perimeter. Locating the logistics center off-site avoids unnecessary delays by ensuring that supplies do not have to pass through the security perimeter unless specifically requested on-site."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Mortuary Services: Deployment of Medical Examiner Personnel to a Mass Casualty Incident
The chief medical examiner should develop a staffing plan that maximizes efficiency and ensures the ability to place expanded staff and resources on-scene during a mass casualty incident.
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Pilot Project Enhances Efficiency in Substantial Damage Estimations
"When impacted by disasters, all communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are required to determine whether damage to structures reaches a 50 percent or greater threshold. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Substantial Damage Estimator (SDE) tool is often used to make these estimates. However, Marathon, Florida has devised a method using a Geographic Information System (GIS) digital database with the damage fields from FEMA's SDE tool to generate another effective way of reporting substantial damage information."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Safe Room Shelters Evacuees from Hurricane Harvey
"Nearly 400 evacuees with nowhere else to go in Victoria, Texas, sheltered inside a 168-foot wide steel-reinforced tornado/hurricane safe room the day Hurricane Harvey barreled into Texas. When the city ordered a mandatory evacuation forcing people to find shelter, St. Joseph High School Principal Tom Maj was happy to help. 'This was the first ever use of the facility, and it performed as intended,' said Maj. The community commonly refers to the safe room at the Tom O'Connor Jr. Athletic Center facility as the St. Joseph High School FEMA Dome. It was constructed to serve the Victoria community during catastrophic events."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Small City Escapes Big Damages Due to Successful Mitigation Practices
"In a city with a population of 3,500, only one house in Bunker Hill Village [Texas] suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Harvey. Homeowners credit the city's proactive approach to mitigation. 'We know storms are coming. If you are not prepared, you need to get prepared,' said Steve Smith, the city's director of public works and building official. 'How well you get through the storm depends on how well prepared you are.'"
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: Texas Home Elevation Ends Cycle of Repetitive Flooding
"Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane, brought torrential downpours and days of flooding that devastated the small town of Webster, located southeast of Houston in Harris County. The 2017 hurricane submerged the majority of homes in their neighborhood, but John and Mary Sullivan's home was an exception. Elevation saved their home."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
