HomeMy WebLinkAbout08.09.24 Board Correspondence - EOC UpdateFrom:Pickett, Andy
To:BOS
Subject:EOC Update
Date:Friday, August 9, 2024 9:46:29 AM
Board Members,
The EOC had its final briefing this morning. CAL FIRE reports that things are looking better overall. In
Butte County, the fire is all but done. All the firefighting energy is going towards the finger that is
running at Mill Creek. Given the favorable weather conditions coming up, they expect to make
significant progress in the next few days.
For us, we are in the process of demobilizing our shelters. By the end of the day today our animal
shelter will move the unclaimed animals to the regular shelter. We continue to work hard on
reunification, but history has taught us that there are a certain number of survivors who don’t have
the capacity to deal with pets and abandon them.
As we wind down the EOC, the Disaster Recovery Operations Center (DROC) is ramping up. Danielle
Nuzum and Anna Loughman will be heading up the efforts. These two individuals have ample
experience with DROC, and they are busy putting into place all the building blocks for the effort. You
will hear about some of these at Tuesday’s BOS meeting.
The Local Assistance Center (LAC) is going well. As of 6pm yesterday, we have received 849 visits
from individuals (from 516 distinct persons). Unfortunately, as we had feared, uninsured folks are
making up a majority of visitors, nearly 60% being uninsured. The LAC is being well received by
residents, and widely represented from a cross section of government, non-profit, and faith-based
organizations.
Lastly, you may have seen that yesterday I issued a new Emergency Proclamation, wherein I
aggregated all of our fires (Grubbs, Apache, Thompson, Railbridge, and Park) into a single event. The
idea is that for the smaller fires, if they stood alone, would have been within our ability to address,
but cumulative, when taken into context of the Thompson and Park, they now fall outside of our
ability to address. It’s a novel approach, and we’ll see how Cal OES responds to the argument. You’ll
have the opportunity to ratify the proclamation on Tuesday.
Since we have wound down the EOC, this will be the last update. If any of you have
questions/comments, I’m available to take your call.
Thanks,
Andy
Máximo A. Pickett
Chief Administrative Officer
County of Butte
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965
T: 530.552.3310 M: 530.990.1647