About 45 people in attendance

Conference call with lots of others

Meeting started at 9:01am

Lewin starts:

Safety briefing

Exits/First Aid in kitchen/ AED in hallway

Current Situation:

Until last night SB was only care and support of Ventura

As of last night fire became a threat to SB

Law and fire are now part of unified command

SB is now directly involved

“Voluntary evacuation” was issued for Carp as a result.

Maps and Plans available for that

2-3 am there was a need for a portion of Rincon to be evacuated

Sheriff's deputies went door to door

300 residents and 90 homes were impacted

They were directed to UCSB (something about animals)

Now:

First time to activate this center (did I hear that right?)

Director of EOC is now on shifts

Brian Yule(?) is section chief

Going around the room pointing out the roles in the organization right now.

• Chief Peterson:

• Fire briefing:

• Huddle with a 3-star at CalFire

• Acreage is not clear 150,000 acres estimate now

• 101 is closed.  CHP is shuttling small groups of cars through.  “Escort”

Fire is behind Carpinteria (as far as SB cares)

Fire has reached “divide peak”, further inland behind carp

Between ventura and SB counties

If true fire is much further into federal lands than we realized earlier this morning

County and Ops strike team at La Conchita kept structure lost to minimum.

Lost two buildings (1 outbuilding and 1 abandoned)

This was managed well

Forest Service is concerned about the amount of fire is in their protection area.

Trying to resolve how the teams are going to cooperate.   Good communication.

• Unknown speaker from SB Sheriff

• Carpinteria has an ops center set up in City Hall

• Not clear about the fire’s reach to Divide Peak.

• (Cross referencing the satellite data)

• Air attack said at Divide Peak

• Ground forces deny Divide Peak

• Confusion is believed to be about the exact location of Divide Peak

• Regardless divide peak is expected to burn

• Unknown

• So far fire has not crossed 150

• Fire teams holding it at 150

• Lewin

• Weather

• Dry and fire weather in the near future

• Good that days are short

• Cold at night

• Bad for firefighters (When is it good for firefighters? -me)

• Current Objectives (being approved on the fly - paraphrased)

• Ensure SB is prepared for fire impacts to the County to provide rapid alert information and directions on action for the public to tak.

• Provide the public and officials to prevent rumors

• Ensure staffing

• Provide close coordination

• Support shelters

• “Prepare document for public proclamation and FMAG”

• “Provide for public and employee safety”

• (All approved)

• Resource needs at EOC

• Current staffing

• Lots of details about how to account for time working in the EOC for employees (relevant for FEMA)

• Expect “presidential” (not sure what that means)

• Carpinteria update - From EOC shift leaders

• Activated yesterday late afternoon

• Answered questions

• Coordinated with county EOM and sheriff

• Thanks to Sheriff’s office for information

• Lots of questions from public about “what to do”

• Holiday parade cancelled

• Needs:

• Primarily Information needs

• Sandwich boards

• Need more information out to the public

• Montecito

• No needs ready to support

• Santa Barbara CIty

• EOC is set up to support and has staff to support Carp or County EOC

• Information is appreciated

• Goleta

• No needs at this time ready to support

• Open

• No

• County Schools

• All south county schools are closed

• Carp.

• Assuming closed tomorrow

• SB Unified s closed

• Private and charter associated also closed

• Not clear about tomorrow

• SBCC is also closed

• Not clear about tomorrow

• Air quality, Threat and Staffing are the rationale for closing

• Many teachers and staff live in affected areas

• Cate closed

• Everyone left yesterday at noon

• Westmont Closed

• Today and Tomorrow being announced at 10am by President Beebe

• UCSB - Jim

• Is running the shelter

• The shelter is called “the RecCen”

• “The Mac” is a bulding in the “RecCen”

• All PR should refer to the “RecCen”

• Red Cross is the liason for the shelter numbers

• EOC director is Renee Ball

• UCLA is cancelled

• 10,000 students petitioned against that choice

• UCSB is in “dead week” so no classes were running anyway

• Power is an issue for UCSB due to the shelter

• Backup generator for shelter is hooked up to shelter building

• Two back up generators

• Fuel is going to become an issue

• EOC is in standby mode

• UCSB Renee Ball

• Informal summer classes

• Waiting for public health report before deciding on whether going outside is bad enough to cancel the classes

• UCSB - Jim

• Rumor control - Tons of rumors flying around UCSB

• Rumor - “Power is going out by plan”

• Rumor - “IV is evacuating”

• Need to control the rumors particularly in UCSB/IV

• CalTrans - CHP

• 101 is open with escorts

• Hard closure 192 at 150 closed

• Gubantor and 150

• 154 closed this morning off and on

• Southern California Edison -

• Only operating with 1 of our 66 KD lines which we rely on if 220 lines go down

• If 220’s go down due to fire there will be power outages from 5 to 30 minutes

• If fire travels down the 220 it will be worse

• Working on getting second 66KD line to provide resiliency

• Mobilizing to place 10MW of diesel generation at Goleta sub

• Working on getting equipment in place

• Not ready until Sunday

• “Is fire close to 220 lines in Carp?”

• Jim - Could be depends on crossing a particular geo location (para - me)

• County General Services

• 911 dispatch is on generator

• Transfer switch failed

• Part is being overnighted by Fedex

• Downtown power flucutation

• Currently running on SCE, but might switch to generator

• EOC is on charcoal filtration system for human breathing

• Shutdoors

• Lewin-

• Keep monitoring impact on comms sites

• Public Works - Brett

• County Road closure is going to be kept up in real time (trying to get the url for that)

• Gubernor canyon from 192 to 150 closed

• Jim- take pictures of damage in real time

• Parks

• No one available

• Social Services

• 43 clients at shelter in UCSB as a result of last nights evacs.

• Update:

• Update 58 at shelter with line outside

• Some needs in Carp for additional help on evac support

• Coordinating with Red Cross

• Input about mental health assistance from another person

• Vista Del Mar

• Burned Tuesday morning

• 82 bed pysch facility

• Tremendous loss

• 70 patients evac’ed to fair grounds

• SB County staff (10 people) went with them

• Permission to go over census to overload the back-up facility (Puff?) granted for now

• Some hospitals are helping with this which will impact wait times

• Vista is burned and will not reopen

• Recovery need

• Red Cross

• National red cross has taken over

• Communication is going to be difficult as a result

• “Thanks to the Red cross for help”

• Public Health

• Vulnerable populations in Carp.

• Actively working with them

• None of them impacted by evacs.

• Still some concern

• EMS is at normal ops

• EMS EOC is turning on

• Making sure routing air quality updates are going out

• CostCo parking lot (10:00am), Franklin community center (1:00pm)

• Masks available for people with compromised respiratory systems only.

• N95 masks - not small enough for small children

• Looking for a site in Carpinteria to do a distribution of masks

• As of last night no additional folks with medical needs

• No medical shelter needs at this time

• Doctor Charity Dean

• Request to work with UCSB on air quality help

• Recommendation is to leave and get out of smoke areas at this time

• Pregnancy

• Asthma

• Medications are going to show up in short fall

• Santa Barbara air is hazardous

• Goleta air is very unhealthy

• People who need to relocate due to relocation should be given accommodation

• Question about closing tomorrow:

• Recommended to close Santa Barbara schools tomorrow also

• Animal Services - Dory :

• Hot line was activated at 3:30am

• 13 animals taken in last night

• SB Humane is accepting dogs and cats

• Not many calls to hot line

• Lots of animals at Earl Warren

• What is the capacity for large animals?

• Polo field accepting horses (and goats (! -me))

• Earl Warren can take about 100 more horses

• “Air quality for horses?”

• Recommendation to move horse to North County

• Polo field has bad air quality

• Most of the options are privately arranged.  The hot lines have a network.

• Capacity is limited for public accomodations for horses.

• State OES (what is that? -me)

• State ops center is at level 3 - High (?)

• Monitoring major fires in Ventura and LA County

• Watching for new starts further south

• Staging in Los Alamedos

• Cots, blankets, water from FEMA (not a distribution site)

• LOTS of shelter material from FEMA

• State of Emergency from Governor

• JEK update (?)

• Ready to go. (Lots of acronyms that I can’t parse -me)

• Press releases

• Sheriff

• Needs:

• Need regular updates on where the fire actually is

• Last time we relied on LA County for help we won’t have that this time.

• Air Assets providing info also

• Really need info

• Do we have a trigger point for mandatory evacuations?

• Lewin - “Yes, decision points are established.  We need a map of those points”  Directed to be developed

• CalFire - Mary Huggins

• What is containment?

• No answer

• “Will be sent to shelter once a day for updates”

• Evacuation planning map is available

• Wrap-up

• Don’t call the EOC with info

Briefing concluded at 10am

Next planned briefing at 9am on 12/8