Comprehensive solutions for disaster recovery including assessment, planning, mitigation, restoration and rebuilding

Reduce Risk and Increase Resiliency with TRC’s Trusted Services

The devastating effects of wildfires—most recently experienced by the multiple outbreaks in Southern California—can leave lasting impacts on communities, businesses, infrastructure and property. With the increase in wind velocity and drought, firestorms burn more frequently and intensely, damaging more land and property faster than ever. This presents tremendous challenges to utilities and agencies that provide vital services to the public. These organizations must grapple with disaster complexity and interconnectedness of people, assets and environments. 

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Wildfire management challenges include: 

• Inadequate planning and analysis of the wildfire lifecycle
• Lack of understanding around potential risks and hazards
• Untested, disconnected mitigation capabilities
• Communications silos and disjointed response and recovery
• Legacy methods, processes and data management

Utilities, local, state, and federal agencies alike need solutions that cover all aspects of wildfire management. This requires cohesive strategies that integrate people, processes and capabilities to increase readiness and resilience.

TRC provides trusted solutions to: 

• Develop comprehensive planning 
• Identify and prioritize high wildfire-risk areas 
• Formalize prescriptive detailed mitigation strategies based on risk
• Develop rapid response plans and strategies
• Accelerate restoration, recovery and rebuilding 

TRC solutions empower organizations with effective expertise and tools to identify wildfire hazards, preventative mitigation measures and engagement protocols for emergency responders, mutual aid organizations, government agencies, communities and customers. 

Experience and Expertise From the Backoffice to the Field 

When disaster strikes, you need to be prepared and execute swift and flexible solutions that extend from the operations center to the field, from the executive to the customer. TRC field teams deploy quickly and seamlessly integrate with your organization to complement and extend your organization’s capabilities. And TRC maintains the skills, knowledge, and technologies to help rebuild even stronger, with greater resiliency than ever before. Clients gain trusted capabilities with solutions that safeguard people, property and the environment. 

With TRC consultants, clients gain:

Tailored solutions and services
We develop detailed wildfire planning, mitigation, response and recovery strategies that align with your goals. Based on a thorough assessment, TRC develops tailored plans that align with specific operational needs, regulatory requirements and more. 

Advanced technology deployment
Leverage cutting-edge solutions, including cloud computing, modern geospatial solutions and Lemur mobile mapping for improved decision making. Deploy analytics and data services for risk assessment, resource allocation and real-time situational awareness from the operations center to the field. 

Multidisciplinary expertise
TRC staff possess industry knowledge combined with technical expertise. Practitioners have decades of experience in utility operations, disaster management, environmental services and more. Our multidisciplinary teams include industry experts, utility engineers, data scientists, project planners, compliance professionals, and field operators. 

Extended services
From air quality consulting to hazardous materials, vegetation management and waste management, health and safety programs, remediation and more, TRC’s wildfire solutions include the necessary services clients may not immediately recognize as essential.

Manage All Phases of Wildfire Disaster Management 

TRC provides various services that enable your organization to develop plans that reduce the likelihood of intense wildfires and respond more effectively. We adapt our solutions to meet the unique demands and constraints of the environment. In addition, TRC works diligently to ensure the rapid restoration of operations and services—while developing resilience against future incidents.

Identify high-risk areas and develop a comprehensive plan to address potential threats. Analyze environmental issues and community values at risk to determine where wildfire mitigation efforts are needed:

• Evaluation of current prevention, response, preparedness and overall emergency contingency capabilities 
• Creation of tailored response plans aligned with operational needs and regulatory compliance 
• Amendment of plans to incorporate lessons learned 
• Development of procedures for handling long-duration, multi-jurisdiction events 
• Implementation of new or revised procedures, policies and measures 
• Augmentation of training to improve readiness 

Identify and catalog assets, networks and customer locations within extreme wildfire hazard areas to determine and prioritize the most effective mitigation strategies. These can involve vegetation management, network hardening, undergrounding lines, and public safety power shutoff during extreme conditions.

Our solutions include:
• Proactive, data-driven vegetation management 
• Protecting structures and properties in wildfire-prone areas
• Creating defensible spaces around buildings
• Using fire-resistant materials in construction
• Implementing fire-safe landscape designs
• Staging of equipment/materials/personnel 
• Mutual aid agreements and communication protocols

 

With decades of experience serving utility customers, TRC can help organizations repair assets and restore services from downed wires and damaged power lines, substations and transformers.

TRC offers:
• Damage Assessment & Work Order Management
• Power System Studies, Storm Hardening Design & Engineering 
• Power Restoration Plan 
• Rapid Deployment (Usually <24 Hours Anywhere in the US)
• Electrical/Telecom Overhead and Underground engineering and design
• Wires Down & Gas Outage Field Support
• Hazardous chemicals cleanups (PCBs from transformers and substations) 

 

Damage to critical infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and utilities, requires specialized expertise.

TRC offers:
• Structural assessment and repair planning 
• Pre-qualified engineers supporting inspection and design 
• Funding, Tracking, Acquisition and Management ( Regional, State and Federal)
• Construction lending verification  
• Levee failure assessment and repair planning 
• Wastewater treatment facility assessment 
• Construction Management and Inspection
• Metallurgical consulting 
• Non-destructive testing 
• Geospatial analysis and data capture
• Communication, Marketing and Facilitation

 

We add capacity to determine the extent of damage to structures and properties and plan remediation actions to get them to their pre-disaster state.

Our offerings include:
• Hazardous materials cleanup 
• Building habitability determinations 
• Indoor air quality assessments 
• Soil and water sampling/testing 
• Human health risk assessments 
• Rebuilding plans in compliance with the latest regulations and standards 
• Development of remediation protocol and scope of work documents 
• On-site project oversight and documentation 
• Remediation assessment and verification 

 

Our teams identify, assess and manage sites contaminated by hazardous materials with solutions that include:

• Air quality assessments 
• Contaminated sediment management 
• Contaminated/hazardous sites monitoring 
• Remediation Engineering 
• Industrial/Oil and Gas Startup 
• Operational readiness reviews 
• Inspection and repair 
• Pre-startup and startup operations support

Wildfires, like the recent outbreaks in Southern California, have devastating and lasting impacts on communities, businesses, and infrastructure. As fires grow more frequent and intense due to wind and drought, utilities and agencies face mounting challenges in managing interconnected systems and essential services. TRC stands ready to support your efforts in preparation, response, and recovery — contact us today.

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