[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] FW: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise 25-April

[n4asx at cox.net]

Just a reminder.  This is a weekday, but if you can support please let me
know.  I will add you to the list.

Regards

Rick Bunn

N4ASX

 

From: don.ki4d at gmail.com <don.ki4d at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 3:01 PM
To: n4asx at cox.net
Subject: FW: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise
25-April

 

 

 

From: Kevin Coleman <kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov> > 
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:23 PM
To: n4asx at cox.net <mailto:n4asx at cox.net> ; Don Lewis <don.ki4d at gmail.com
<mailto:don.ki4d at gmail.com> >
Cc: Curice Paulus <curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov
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Subject: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise 25-April

 

Rick and Don,

 

Alexandria is conducting a full-scale exercise on 25-April in which we are
fully activating the EOC.  The exercise scenario is a tornado event
impacting a few different areas of the City.  If you and a few folks are
available to attend, we'd have space for 1-2 at the EOC and a couple (1-3)
out in the field at one of our mock damage sites.  

 

We figured this would be a good opportunity for a couple of your folks to
practice, see the EOC in operation, and for EOC personnel to see what you
all do.  We'll have personnel out in the field conducting damage assessments
so may simulate some sort of brief "comms outage" forcing them to send a
message through your field team to the EOC.  Otherwise, we don't necessarily
have any comms-specific injects; rather, this would be more of an
opportunity to concurrently setup and test your systems while the EOC is
activated as opposed to involved exercise play.

 

I can send you more info as we get closer if this is something you can
support.  The estimated exercise times are 0900 - 1500.  I'll need a list of
names and contact info for those that are interested/available to play so we
can add them to our exercise roster and provide additional information.

 

Let me know if you have any questions and thanks in advance for any support.


 

V/R,

 

Kevin Coleman

Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator - Planning

Office of Emergency Management

Alexandria Fire Department

2003 Mill Rd. #3105 Alexandria, VA 22314

 

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