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Written by: 2/16/2011 1:26 PM
Yes, 2012! More is to come, and you can consult Chief Lipe or Exercise Czar Rick Wallace for all the details, but for now please just add the following dates to next year’s calendar:
Evergreen Quake is a series of three exercises that is intended to test the ability of local, state, federal and tribal governments, as well as select private sector entities located within the eight-county Puget Sound Metro Area to collaboratively respond to and recover from a large-scale to catastrophic Seattle Fault earthquake. The ultimate goal of the exercise-series is to improve the collective operational readiness of emergency/ disaster managers, and other public safety institutions that are participating in the exercise. The three exercises in the series and their tentative dates are:
Achieving our collective exercise goals will require a well designed and effectively executed set of exercises. This will be the charge of the ‘Evergreen Quake’ Exercise Design Interagency Working Committee and its respective Subcommittees. Working together, Puget Sound Area city, county, state, federal, non governmental, and private sector officials that volunteer to serve on the various ‘Evergreen Quake’ exercise design and planning subcommittees will collaboratively build a realistic-as-possible set of exercises through the development of comprehensive scenario documents, a challenging Master Scenario Events List, and a robust simulation and control cell.
- ORIENTATION SEATTLE FAULTlow-res1.pdf
What else, our favorite: a BIG earthquake! But there are “Five Overarching Themes”
Based on the early announcement of this, and the long (& many) lists of participants (below), this looks to be a “big deal”, so get ready!
6 Counties
11 Cities (if you seriously stretch things and call Vashon a city)
15 Federal Agencies (if you call each of FEMA’s appendages an agency)
Others –American Medical Response –Port of Tacoma –Tacoma Water –ARC (King/Kitsap) –ARC (Mt. Rainier/Tacoma) –Western State Hospital –Tacoma/Pierce Public Health –South King Fire –Canadian Consulate –British Consulate –Central Pierce F&R –Browns Point Dash Point Fire Dept –Pierce County PSAP (LESA)
“The purpose of this exercise is to validate the combined local, state, and federal capability to manage resources after a major regional disaster.”
“The exercise will simulate an emergency supply chain including a federal incident support base, a state staging area, one or more local staging areas, and multiple community points of distribution”
So far Vashon isn’t listed among those participating in the Logistics component – but I suspect we will be soon!
Local –Thurston County with Olympia –Pierce County (?) with Puyallup –Snohomish County with Marysville and Brier –Kitsap County with Bremerton and Bainbridge State Agencies –Emergency Management Division –Department of General Administration –Department of Health –Washington State Patrol –Department of Transportation –Washington National Guard Federal Agencies –FEMA –USACE –HS TSA –US Navy
Two exercises will be held:
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