For the
Daytona Beach Police Department
Created By: Captain Dru Driscoll – Daytona Beach Fire Department 2009©
Objectives
 Types of Evacuation
 Coordinated Evacuation Efforts.
 DBPD Search Assessments
 DBFD Search Markings and When They Will be Used
Types of Evacuation
 Three types of evacuations defined by the type of
evacuation order: mandatory, recommended, and
voluntary
 Voluntary: Media Notified. No traffic control
established. For persons in high risk areas.
 Recommended: Media notified. Street to street
announcements not needed. Reverse 911 may be used.
Re-entry to area not recommended.
 Mandatory: Media notified, Reverse 911 shall be used,
Door-to-door or street-to-street announcements
needed. Deny re-entry to evacuated area.
Coordination of Evacuation
 Evacuations are a multi-agency coordinated process.
 Evacuations shall be coordinated through Incident
Command.
 Geographic grids will be established for door-to-door
and street-to-street evacuation efforts.
 Communicate your completed evacuations (street or
grid) to immediate supervisor. Wait for reassignment.
 Evacuations for Pre-Event and Post-Event may differ in
your assigned priorities.
 Termination of the evacuation order will be issued and
communicated by the Incident Commander.
DBPD Search Assessments
 Post-Event, systematic street-to-street and door-to-
door searches and evacuations may be required.
 Geographic grids will be established for door-to-door
and street-to-street search /evacuation efforts.
 “Windshield Assessments” should be performed
immediately after an event.
 Windshield Assessment: Driving street-to-street
within assigned area reporting issues (building
collapse, fire, safety issues) to supervisor.
 Interior structure searches should not be performed.
Communicate location to be searched to supervisor.
Fire Department Searches
 Through DBPD windshield assessments, Fire
Department personnel will be dispatched to perform
search and rescue within structures of light, moderate,
or heavy structural damage.
 CERT teams may perform interior searches of light to
moderately damaged structures.
 “Search Markings” and “Structure / Hazard Markings”
shall only be performed by Fire Department personnel
in structures that are determined uninhabitable.
 DBPD officers may be deployed as a Task Force with
DBFD and Public Works during search operations.
Light Damage
Moderate Damage
Heavy Damage
Search Markings
 Search Markings and Hazard Markings shall be
performed by Fire Department personnel.
 Markings shall be placed with orange paint or green
decals placed at front entrance to structure.
 To prevent unnecessary expense to residents, Search
Markings will only be placed on uninhabitable
buildings as determined by DBFD.
 Search Markings provide the following information:
 Search started or complete
 Hazards
 Number of victims and/or dead
 Who performed search and when performed
Search Markings
Time
Search Team
Hazards
Number of
Victims
Structure / Hazard Marking
Structure Safe for Search
Structure / Hazard Marking
Building Significantly Damaged
Search may be Limited
Structure / Hazard Marking
Do Not Enter
Search Not Safe
Structure / Hazard Marking
Hazardous Materials In Area
Haz-Mat Specialist Needed
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Summary
 Evacuations and searches are multi-agency
systematically coordinated events.
 Each agency has a specific role.
 DBPD – Assessments, citizen safety, and evacuation
 DBFD – Search & Rescue, Building stabilization, and
evacuations.
 Public Works – Road clearing, Large debris removal
 Searches of structures and Search markings are to be
performed by DBFD.
 Search and Hazard information available at:
http://www.ksimt.org/USARMarkingSystem.pdf