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(thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricane, floods, etc.) Shelter - A facility to house, feed, and care for persons evacuated from a risk area for periods of one or more days. For the risk areas the primary shelter and the reception center .are usually located in the same facility: Shelter Manager - An individual who provides for internal organization, administration, and operation of a shelter facility. S ecial Needs Shelter - Desi nated shelters rovided b local overzunent to meet the p g p Y g needs of special population groups, such as the physically disabled. S ecial O erations Res once Team SORT - A mobile medical team com fete with p p P .( ) p . physicians, nurses, and equipment prepared to deploy on short notice to the site of an emergency or disaster. Staging Area - Apre-selected location having large parking areas such as a major shopping area, schools, etc. The area is a base for the assembly of persons and equipment to be moved into or out of a response area. Several of these areas should be designated to each evacuating jurisdiction. Standard Operating Procedures {SOP) - Set of instructions having the force of a directive, covering features of operations which lend themselves to a definite or standardized praceduz~e . ,, without loss of effectiveness, and implemented without a specific direct order from higher . , authority. State Emergency Response Commission {BERG), designated by the Governor, responsible for establishing HA.ZMAT planning districts and appointing/overseeing Local Emergency Planning Committees. State Emergency Response Team {BERT) - A team of senior representatives of state agencies, state level volunteer organizations, and state level corporate associations who have knowledge of their organization resources and have the authority to commit those resources to emergency response. SERT operates from the State EOC and the Director of EM serves as the BERT leader. State Warning Pvint {SWP) -The State Facility (State Highway Patrol Communications Center} that receives warnings and other emergency information over NAWAS and relays this information in accordance with current directives. Tasl{Force - A group of resources with shared communication and leader. It may be pre- established and sent to an incident or it may be created at the incident. Task Force 21 (TF 2i) - A team of first responders from Cabanas County and Local ' ~ municipal law enforcement agencies, fire departments, emergency medical services, and EOP/GLOSSARY 1 I September 2008 F-2 272 of 408