Good afternoon,
I wanted to touch base to see what members are slated to participate in the City’s upcoming exercise on 4/25.
To recap, we’re looking for 2 folks at the EOC and a few (2-4 depending on interest/availability of your members) to establish one field comms location at Fire Station 203 to relay messages back to the EOC. Communications will not be heavily
impacted as part of the exercise scenario but figured this was a good opportunity to partner with you all, expose folks to what you do, and practice our comms protocols/equipment. We will have at least one or two injects prompting field personnel conducting
damage assessments to leverage the deployed comms team and vice versa may leverage the EOC comms team to pass info to the field.
Please provide names/emails of those who may be able to support and we can provide additional information. Let me know if anyone has any questions. Thanks for the support!
Kevin Coleman
Office of Emergency Management
City of Alexandria
703.8594695 Mobile
703.7465267 Office
Thanks Rick – we look forward to including you all in the exercise and appreciate your participation.
Kevin Coleman
Office of Emergency Management
City of Alexandria
703.8594695 Mobile
703.7465267 Office
Sir,
Wel will be happy to attend. I will let you know who will be at EOC so you can clear them to enter.
Best Regards
Rick
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
703.8594695 Mobile
703.7465267 Office
703.7466100 24/7 Duty EM