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Ramsey County │ Annex B: Protective Actions 16 <br />jurisdictions should identify challenges of overlapping routes for different modes of transportation (e.g., <br />do evacuation routes go over drawbridges or rail crossings for subway or commuter rail lines?) and <br />consider whether additional or specific resources may help address these considerations. Effective <br />traffic management allows a jurisdiction to evacuate more people from a community in an efficient <br />manner, which reduces the burden on jurisdiction personnel and resources. Failure to organize efficient <br />traffic management efforts increases resource burdens, causes longer evacuation times, could lead to <br />increased accidents and higher congestion, and could leave evacuating residents in vulnerable <br />conditions during an incident. <br />3.2 Organization <br />All incidents begin and end at the local level. Municipalities retain primary responsibility for command <br />and control of incidents occurring within their jurisdiction unless a delegation of authority is in place. <br />This annex has been created with the understanding that critical tasks and key operational activities are <br />applicable to municipalities first unless there is a delegation of authority in place, the responsibility for <br />that function is already assigned to a county agency, or county support has been requested. <br />Typically, a municipality will organize an EOC response to support field response when support and <br />coordination of an incident is necessary. RCEOC activation is done at the discretion of the RCEMHS <br />Director or duty officer when large or extremely complex incidents occur to provide multi-jurisdictional <br />coordination, or at the request of an affected municipality. <br />The RCEOC substructure involved with overseeing the protective actions function is displayed in the <br />figure below. Groups may be added, removed, or combined as needed to reflect the size and complexity <br />of the response. <br /> <br />Figure 2: Protective Actions EOC Organization Chart <br />Protective Actions is a function of the Operations Section. Once the Annex is activated, the assigned lead <br />will report to the RCEOC as the Protective Actions Coordination Branch (PACB) Director and will be <br />supervised by the RCEOC Operations Section Chief. The PACB Director will coordinate with any <br />Protective Actions municipal Liaisons working in municipal EOC / Incident Command Posts (ICPs) and