A Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire OrganizationEssay title: A Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire OrganizationA Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire OrganizationElizabeth M. Ferrarini,She is a free-lance writer from Boston, Massachusetts. Reach her at [email protected] after the first of two planes plunged into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Inc., the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, declared a disaster and rushed its disaster recovery plan into place with the help of SunGard Recovery Solutions, a third-party disaster recovery service provider. At the last time, about seven other tenants in the World Trade Center followed suit and contacted SunGard.
Facts:
** There have been over 1,000 fire and rescue services for the five towers. The City of Stamford and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had all three of those towers in active operation. The FDNY has no fire insurance.
… The City of Stamford, Connecticut, filed its own disaster recovery plan that included all three towers that hit each other on November 7th and 8th. The FDNY and Fire Commission both had in their plans the recovery and recovery, but neither actually came back to take the necessary actions to cover their losses.
… At the time of the 2001 incident, there were 3,818 firefighters in the National Guard, who made up a combined 6.5 percent of the total (Figure 1).
… The FAA has in its disaster recovery plan since 2001, which includes all three towers. This has not yet changed.
1) The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, has a Disaster Recovery and Recovery Center (DRAC), located in West Virginia (Figure 2). This facility holds fire power, cleanup, communications, and emergency response.
2) FEMA has a Disaster Recovery and Recovery Coordinator, a person who coordinates disaster recovery and recovery activities for other Federal agencies.
3) In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency prepared a disaster recovery plan. The disaster recovery plan included plans for responding to and recovering from a catastrophic event. FEMA and the FDNY did not anticipate that these plans would change and may even change during disaster recovery. FY 2000 ended the year with an increased reliance on disaster recovery in the State of New York.
4) On October 17th, 2001, FEMA had issued a supplemental emergency management plan that included contingency plans for the following four towers that were hit. The supplemental plan included planning for these 4:1 and 13:13-type buildings, as well as 4:2 and 4:4-type buildings. FEMA also did not consider contingency plans for several other two of the towers. FY 2003 also continued the Federal Emergency Management Plan (FEMA) and continued its work on this disaster recovery.
5) Although FEMA has not provided contingency plans, a State of Georgia emergency manager or agency administrator was assigned to respond quickly to an area that was under fire in 2001. A State of Georgia Emergency Manager or agency administrator could perform a fire rescue or provide an emergency management plan under the emergency preparedness and recovery laws. Federal Disaster Management Agency (FDOM), who was authorized to act in this capacity in December 2000, used the FEMA supplemental plan to provide a emergency management strategy that included a revised and updated FEMA emergency strategy for a two-year period. A FEMA Emergency Response Coordinator, in addition to providing emergency response in emergency situations, provided FEMA with a State emergency management plan or a similar plan with an enhanced response plan in advance of the April 2006 Hurricane Sandy. FEMA’s Emergency Response Coordinators did not take responsibility for performing the FEMA emergency response plan for each of the three towers or for any of them.
For these reasons, a State of Georgia Emergency manager or agency administrator was assigned to operate this supplemental disaster response plan and provide FEMA emergency response and disaster recovery assistance.
Facts:
** There have been over 1,000 fire and rescue services for the five towers. The City of Stamford and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had all three of those towers in active operation. The FDNY has no fire insurance.
… The City of Stamford, Connecticut, filed its own disaster recovery plan that included all three towers that hit each other on November 7th and 8th. The FDNY and Fire Commission both had in their plans the recovery and recovery, but neither actually came back to take the necessary actions to cover their losses.
… At the time of the 2001 incident, there were 3,818 firefighters in the National Guard, who made up a combined 6.5 percent of the total (Figure 1).
… The FAA has in its disaster recovery plan since 2001, which includes all three towers. This has not yet changed.
1) The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, has a Disaster Recovery and Recovery Center (DRAC), located in West Virginia (Figure 2). This facility holds fire power, cleanup, communications, and emergency response.
2) FEMA has a Disaster Recovery and Recovery Coordinator, a person who coordinates disaster recovery and recovery activities for other Federal agencies.
3) In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency prepared a disaster recovery plan. The disaster recovery plan included plans for responding to and recovering from a catastrophic event. FEMA and the FDNY did not anticipate that these plans would change and may even change during disaster recovery. FY 2000 ended the year with an increased reliance on disaster recovery in the State of New York.
4) On October 17th, 2001, FEMA had issued a supplemental emergency management plan that included contingency plans for the following four towers that were hit. The supplemental plan included planning for these 4:1 and 13:13-type buildings, as well as 4:2 and 4:4-type buildings. FEMA also did not consider contingency plans for several other two of the towers. FY 2003 also continued the Federal Emergency Management Plan (FEMA) and continued its work on this disaster recovery.
5) Although FEMA has not provided contingency plans, a State of Georgia emergency manager or agency administrator was assigned to respond quickly to an area that was under fire in 2001. A State of Georgia Emergency Manager or agency administrator could perform a fire rescue or provide an emergency management plan under the emergency preparedness and recovery laws. Federal Disaster Management Agency (FDOM), who was authorized to act in this capacity in December 2000, used the FEMA supplemental plan to provide a emergency management strategy that included a revised and updated FEMA emergency strategy for a two-year period. A FEMA Emergency Response Coordinator, in addition to providing emergency response in emergency situations, provided FEMA with a State emergency management plan or a similar plan with an enhanced response plan in advance of the April 2006 Hurricane Sandy. FEMA’s Emergency Response Coordinators did not take responsibility for performing the FEMA emergency response plan for each of the three towers or for any of them.
For these reasons, a State of Georgia Emergency manager or agency administrator was assigned to operate this supplemental disaster response plan and provide FEMA emergency response and disaster recovery assistance.
The events of September have made disaster recovery planning rise to the top of every organization’s IT department priority list. Until the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, few companies had even invested in shared data backups. Raging Wire Telecommunications, a California disaster recovery firm, estimates that the 1993 bombing put half the 350 companies in the World Trade Center out of business because of the disruption. Thanks to improvements in disaster recovery planning, more tenants of the recent World Center disaster will be spared, according to Raging Wire. However, about