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State of Connecticut: Situation Report
State of Connecticut: Situation Report
Situation Report
Department of Emergency Services
Dannel P. Malloy, Governor & Public Protection
Storm Irene Informational Update: FEMA will continue to accept registrations from Storm Irene for Individual
Assistance until November 15, 2011.
At the request of Governor Malloy, the President has issued an emergency declaration FEMAA-3324-EM for the
State of Connecticut. This emergency declaration authorizes FEMA to provide emergency protective measures,
limited to direct federal assistance, at 75 percent federal funding. This assistance is for all eight counties in the State
of Connecticut.
Summary
Statewide, power outages and debris removal continue to be the major problems. Local entities continue to
staff shelters and warming centers. Debris Management, Commodities, Mass Care & Sheltering, Fuel, and
Communications Restoration Task Forces continue to coordinate services. A total of eight storm related
fatalities have been reported due to motor vehicle related accidents and carbon monoxide poisonings.
The following notice is posted on the DEMHS Web Site Notification Page:
Notification for regular work hours on Friday November 4:
All state employees, including non-essential employees, are expected to report to work as scheduled unless their
worksite is closed and they have not been required to report to an alternate office. A list of state buildings that are
currently closed can be found on www.ct.gov. Non-essential employees may also contact their worksites directly to
verify their building status. In some cases, employees may be asked to report to alternate worksites due to agency
operating needs. Please contact your agency for that information.
Department of Transportation employees should call 860-594-3110 for updates on reporting to work.
For the most updated listing of Judicial Branch closures and information for jurors, please visit the Judicial Branch
website.
Weather Report
Friday: Becoming mostly sunny, breezy, and cooler. High: 48-54.
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Emergency Support Function (ESF) Reports
ESF 1 - Transportation
Department of Transportation
Numerous state roads are still being cleared at this time due to downed trees and wires
DOT has begun sending crews to assist municipalities
ESF 2 – Communications
Public Safety Communications
Municipal situation reports continue to be monitored for public safety communication system issues. No outstanding
requests for assistance received as of time of this report.
DESPP/CTS reporting 7 sites on backup generator power, with one site on a deployable generator. 1 Troop remains
on generator No Troops report 911 issues.
Public Communications
No significant new problems or requests reported.
AT&T reports continued progress with provision of backup power to remote facilities. Fueling at these locations
could be improved.
Commercial power restored to a major wireless networking center.
“Backhaul” connectivity troubles continue to be identified and referred for repair/restoration.
Continuous communications continue with commercial wireless carriers, wireline providers, and VoIP providers.
Numbers continue to improve as power is restored
Fueling of generators is a challenge among the EFS2 community. Site access due to downed power lines, poles, and
trees poses a challenging environment and the inability to use normal fuel delivery vehicles.
Site access has improved but wires in the roads continue to be a challenge
Although the debris removal is improving it continues to be a challenge in the restoration of power thus restoral of
wireline and wireless communications to pre-storm levels.
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Cablevision - Making progress since yesterday, reports that 12K customers are out of service (down from 18K
yesterday PM). This represents about 5% of its customers in the state
Charter – Continued progress, but slowing. Currently 36% of customers are out of service.
Comcast – 11535 down drops at height, 1000 expected by end of day. Plant integrity at 91% overall. Over 260
generators have been deployed to the field.
Cox – 350 generators deployed, 300 people in the field from across the company fixing drops. 2/3 of customer base
remains without power. 39,000 telephone without service at this time (40% customer base is operational).
MetroCast - Reports 100% operational. No change from last report.
DAS BEST
DAS/BEST continues to support the Governor's Office and EMHS in keeping the websites current
No new requests or problems reported to DAS/BEST since last Sit Rep.
Request for Debris Management vendors from Region 3, provided by DAS.
Reported suspected virus. DAS BEST security worked with EOC and has cleared the suspected problem
ESF 4 – Firefighting
FEMA
The FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer is on site with other members of FEMA Incident Management Assistance
Team (IMAT).
DEMHS
Region 1 – Providing updates to towns, monitoring local situation reports. DOC covering office overnight.
Region 2 – Providing updates to towns, monitoring local situation reports. DOC covering office overnight.
Region 3 – Providing updates to towns, monitoring local situation reports. DOC covering office overnight.
Region 4 – Providing updates to towns, monitoring local situation reports. DOC covering office overnight.
Region 5 – Providing updates to towns, monitoring local situation reports. DOC covering office overnight.
Numerous municipalities have opened shelters. A Mass Care and Sheltering Task Force have been established.
Shelters (82) Warming Centers (53) MRC Activations (6)
Red Cross and Town operated
Avon New Britain Andover Coventry (Regional)
Bantam New Fairfield Ashford Fairfield-Easton
Berlin New Milford Avon Middletown
Bethany Newington Bethany Northeast Connecticut
Bethel Newtown Bethlehem Weston
Bethlehem Norwalk Bloomfield Stratford-Trumbull
Bloomfield North Canaan Bolton
Bolton (Hebron) Oxford Bridgewater
Bridgewater Plainville Brookfield
Bristol Plymouth Colchester
Brookfield Putnam Columbia
Burlington Redding East Haddam
Canton Rocky Hill East Hampton
Cheshire Ridgefield East Hartford
Cornwall Roxbury Easton
Cromwell Sharon Glastonbury
Danbury Simsbury Greenwich
Durham Somers Griswold
East Granby South Windsor Hartford
East Hampton (Portland) Southbury Hebron
East Hartford Southington Killingworth
East Windsor Suffield Lebanon
Easton (Redding) Thomaston Manchester
Ellington Thompson Meriden
Enfield Tolland Naugatuck
Farmington Torrington New Britain
Glastonbury Trumbull New Fairfield
Goshen Union New Haven
Granby Vernon New Milford
Hartford Wallingford Newtown
Harwinton Waterbury- Relocating Plainville
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Kent Weston Plymouth
Killingly (Regional) West Hartford Pomfret
Litchfield Wethersfield Prospect
Manchester Willington Putnam
Mansfield (Regional) Wilton Roxbury
Meriden Windsor Rocky Hill
Middletown Windsor Locks Sharon
Monroe Winsted Southbury
Morris Wolcott Southington
Naugatuck Woodbury Stamford
Sterling
Suffield
Thomaston
Thompson
Torrington
Trumbull
Union
Vernon
Watertown
Waterbury
Windsor Locks
Wolcott
CONCERNS
• Many local volunteers continue to be unreachable due to power outages or inaccessible local roads
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Hospital Emergency Operation Centers: (Unchanged from last sit rep)
4 Hospitals indicate their Emergency Operations centers either partially or fully operating:
Bristol Hospital, Danbury Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital, Waterbury Hospital
Hospital for Special Care in New Britain has had its power restored.
Facilities: (Updated)
There are currently 21 nursing homes and 6 residential care homes (RCH) on generator. No nursing homes are
reporting issues with access to fuel. One RCH continues to experience problems with outside communication. One
nursing home reporting that they are on street power, however once that restoration happened, they lost their
telephone service.
The following nursing homes have been approved to surge licensed capacity by 10%:
1. Woodlake of Tolland
2. West Hartford Health and Rehab
3. Waters Edge (Middletown)
4. Belair Manor (Newington)
5. Pines at Bristol
6. Amberwoods of Farmington
7. St Mary Home (West Hartford)
8. Cherry Brook (Canton)
9. Aaron Manor (Chester)
10. Guilford House
11. Mystic Healthcare
12. Greentree Manor (Waterford)
13. Masonicare (Wallingford)
14. Cook Willow (Plymouth)
WIC Update
All information below is unchanged from 11/3/11 except East Hartford and Manchester were not able to open and
remain closed:
All agencies are operational, serving clients, issuing checks and rescheduling appointments missed earlier in the
week with the exception of:
East Hartford WIC Program: All locations closed
The following agencies are operating at alternate locations: (Signs on WIC offices and voice messages reflect the
change in locations) Middlesex Hospital WIC Program: Labor and Delivery Unit, 3rd Floor, Middlesex Hospital,
Middletown (across parking lot from WIC office) Meriden Health Department WIC Program: Meriden Senior Center,
22 West Main Street, Meriden (1/2 mile from the WIC office).
Bristol Hospital WIC Program: Bristol Library, 5 High Street, Bristol (1 block from the WIC office)
DPH Carbon Monoxide (CO) fact sheets in multiple languages were emailed to all agencies and hard copies were
hand delivered to agencies operating in alternate locations. All agencies that had outages this week that are now
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open are calling clients to reschedule them into the remainder of the week and in some cases opening on Saturday to
meet demand. All WIC locations are using the opportunity (or in person during appointments) to notify clients of the
locations of shelters/warming centers that are available in the clients’ areas. We are also focusing nutrition
education on food safety and safe food storage/timetables for discarding perishable food.
Boil Advisory Notices Still in Effect (Unchanged from last Sit Rep)
Currently, 95 small public drinking water systems in the state are under a boil water advisory. The list can found on
the DPH website.
The Red Cross has requested DMHAS assistance for behavioral support at sites statewide. The DMHAS/DCF Disaster
Behavioral Health Network deployed 14 staff yesterday to 8 shelters. We are deploying 12 staff to seven shelters
today. Staffing will be reduced at several sites as demand decreases. Staff schedules will be adjusted in order to
provide coverage into the early evenings. While we are planning to continue to provide behavioral health supports to
shelters over the weekend, we anticipate reduced staffing over the weekend as more towns are fully restored.
Department of Agriculture
Fish Family Farm, 20 Dimock Lane, Bolton reports they have power and they lost 980lbs of milk, 66 quarts of Ice
Cream and 20 gallons of Heavy cream. They have started operations as of this date
Received information from Dairy Div, DOAG.
Trinity Farm has a generator and expects to begin bottling soon. They are not sure if the generator will meet the
power needs to produce and will notify us if attempts fail. They report they have dumped 3500lbs of milk.
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It is reported that they had been supplying to local shelters until they had run out of product. It is also reported that
although they have power on their street, the power that feeds the farm, comes directly from an I 91 transformer
and many of the lines and poles between them and the transformer are down.
Info forwarded to CL&P.
ESF12 – Energy
United Illuminating
Released from EOC since a vast majority of their customers has electrical service.
CL&P
Customer Outage Information:
Customers without power: 305,016
% of total customers: 24%
578,927 customers have been restored thus far; 122,605 in the past 24 hours
Our goal remains to restore 99% of our customers by Sunday at midnight
We are aiming to Energize all polling stations by tomorrow night (over 60 percent are energized now).
Total crews: 1,749 (up 254 from yesterday evening)
Crews are here from 23 states including Canada and additional crews are arriving daily (Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia,
Quebec & Vancouver)
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ESF13 – Public Safety and Security
Department of Corrections
All Tolland Courts JD, GA-19 and Meriden court house at165 Miller Street, Meriden closed.
MacDougal-Walker Correctional Institution Suffield still on generator power. No staffing issues.
ESF Economic
Connecticut Insurance Department
Emergency Adjuster Licenses
Have issued 5,925 emergency adjuster licenses, most of which were issued for Storm Irene claims but Insurance
Department has extended those licenses for an additional 90-day period. Department continues to process more
requests daily.
Outreach to Consumers and Industry:
Posted location of Travelers Mobile Claims Van on Department’s Winter Storm Resource site and also shared
information with public through media, Facebook, Twitter and 2-1-1.
Location: Bloomfield at Lowe’s Home Improvement Store on Cottage Grove Road
Will update public with more claims vans location as we get them from the industry
Issued 3 bulletins to the industry that addressed:
Promptness of service and payment
Extending grace periods for premium payments
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Making sure policyholders have unobstructed access to medical care, including prescription drugs, should they not
have their insurance information with them because they are displaced or without it for other reasons as a result of
the storm
Department of Labor
The DOL website will be updated with changing conditions.
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