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Emergency Early Warning System
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
- The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.
- The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
- The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
Emergency Evacuation Support
- The center shall manage inter-agency coordination of evacuation operations, from initial planning through the evacuation process and reentry.
- The center shall develop and exchange evacuation plans with allied agencies prior to the occurrence of a disaster.
Emergency Response Management
- The center shall provide strategic emergency response capabilities provided by an Emergency Operations Center for large-scale incidents and disasters.
- The center shall manage coordinated inter-agency responses to and recovery from large-scale emergencies. Such agencies include traffic management, transit, maintenance and construction management, rail operations, and other emergency management agencies.
- The center shall develop, coordinate with other agencies, and store emergency response plans.
TMC Evacuation Support
- The center shall coordinate planning for evacuation with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities such as establishing routes, areas to be evacuated, timing, etc.
TMC Incident Detection
- The center shall receive inputs from the Alerting and Advisory System concerning the possibility or occurrence of severe weather, terrorist activity, or other major emergency, including information provided by the Emergency Alert System.
- The center shall exchange incident and threat information with emergency management centers as well as maintenance and construction centers; including notification of existence of incident and expected severity, location, time and nature of incident.
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