Mass Fatality Management Group Supervisor

Responsibilities

The Mass Fatality Management Group directs mass fatality management operations.

Review common and leadership responsibilities.
Receive initial briefing from the Support Services Branch Director.
Implement mass fatality management operations and activities.
Implement decedent information reporting, documentation, security, assessment, categorization, consolidation, tracking storage, and dissemination.
In coordination with the Missing Persons Group Supervisor, provide notification, updates and obtain information through Family Assistance Centers regarding decedents and unidentified persons.
Request Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams (DMORT) or other similar resources.
Establish processes to identify all descendants.
Conduct descendent notifications to the appropriate persons; and document notification information.
Mitigate mass fatality-related public health hazards.
Coordinate with the medical examiner/coroner to determine the cause and manner of death of each of the decedents and the final disposition of each of the decedents.
Coordinate with the local authority to issue death certificates.
Collect required information, data records, images, DNA reference samples, investigative evidence, forensic evidence, digital/multimedia evidence, and non-evidence property regarding decedent.
Debrief with Support Services Branch Director, HR or OSC as directed at the end of each shift.
Maintain Form 214a Individual Log and forward to Documentation Unit Leader (DOCL) for disposition.

Form 214a Individual Log

Document events/activities

Initial Response & AssessmentIncident Brief Form 201Initial Command MeetingTactics Meeting Operations BriefingImplement New IAP & Assess Progress

Handbook Page	102 (PDF p.164)
Part	B — Incident Management
Section	4.12 Mass Fatality Management Group Supervisor
Type	role