Drills and Exercises

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Definitions

Definition:  Drills are characterized by an activity that tests, develops, or maintains skills in a single emergency response procedure. The focus is limited.

Definition:  The Tabletop exercise presents a simulated emergency situation. It is intended to evaluate plans and procedures, then resolve questions of coordination and assignments of responsibility. Tabletop exercises are not concerned with time pressures, stress, or actual simulations of specific events.

Definition:  Functional exercises are intended to test or evaluate the capability of one or more functions, or complex activities within a function. The results are obtained when the activity or function can be effectively evaluated from other emergency management activities. An example would be an exercise for the Direction and Control function. In this example, you could test and evaluate the centralized emergency operations capability and timely response of one or more departments under a stress environment. It could be centered in an EOC, or interim EOC, and simulate the use of outside activity and resources

Overview of Drills

CARES Preliminary Damage Assessment Drill.  This is a field drill that employs Amateur Radio to pass simulated emergency traffic among CARES members.  The purpose is to orient CARES members to the procedure for collecting, summarizing, and reporting local damage information for roll-up for the City EOC.  This drill is based on the Preliminary Damage Assessment Procedure described in the SOP Part II Section 7.

CARES Field Assignment Drill:  This is a field drill that employs Amateur Radio to pass simulated emergency traffic among CARES members.  The purpose of this drill is to provide real scenarios in which CARES may be asked to participate to support field assignments requiring communications such as shelters, medical centers, and shadow assignments to name a few.  This drill is based on the Field Assignment Procedure described in the SOP Part II Section 7.

CARES EOC Operations Drill:  This is a drill held at the EOC that may employ Amateur Radio to pass simulated emergency traffic among CARES members.  The purpose of this drill is to provide an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of CARES members assigned to the EOC, the different radio equipment used at the EOC Radio Room, and the kinds of interactions CARES may have with the EOC staff.

Field Day:  The intent of the CARES Emergency Communications Station (ECS) drill is to test CARES’ ability to establish and operate a communications facility that could be used to support the city with backup field-based local and long distance communications during an emergency or disaster.  This drill also coincides with the ARRL Field Day event.

updated:  February 17, 2007