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and Rescue teams, as well as a Texas
Task Force 1 team to help on the
ground. The fire department maintained operational control over those
resources, but Peña soon found that
seamlessly plugging in extra assets is a
challenge in its own right, especially if
there hadn't been a previous ongoing
relationship and co-training.
CHIEF PEÑA
Those teams were being deployed by
our incident commanders in the field,
and it worked well initially for the first
deployment, but because we had such
limited communications [and a lack of
radios], once they were deployed they
are pretty much on their own. I know
they were doing work, but it took them
a long time to get back to redeploy. We
need to increase our cache of radios
that we have available for these larger
incidents, especially when we bring in
outside agencies.
The other consideration is better
coordinating with the agencies we
are going to work with in these major
events before the event happens. It
is very difficult to come together as a
team in the middle of the incident. So
we have to have those relationships,
that network, the understanding of
the capacities and capabilities of the
individuals that represent these other
departments that we will be leveraging
"After the storm
passes through,
you're dealing
with buildings
that are 100-plus
degrees with
relative humidity
in excess of 100
percent. What do
we do with these
populations?"
Chief David Downey
equipment and resources from, and
vice versa.
Another thing was how crammed our
facilities were. At one point, I want to
say we had at least 400 extra personnel
in our fire stations just from those few
teams that I can think of, in addition
to our on-duty firefighters. We were
one on top of the other. That became
a logistics issue-things you wouldn't
consider, like running out of toilet
paper. Those are things that need to be
thought of and implemented into our
plan.
He reports Houston is recovering.
CHIEF PEÑA
Houston is fighting back. Its resiliency
is incredible. We took an aerial flight to
assess the damage, and right away you
saw people fighting back. This storm
affected everybody from low-income
households to multi-millionaire households-if you were in its path, it was
going to hit you in the mouth. But as
soon as the rain stopped, people were
out there taking out debris, getting
back on their feet. Shoot, at the height
of the storm, you had people who were
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