Last fall the EMSI team designed and delivered an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Functional Exercise for Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Emergency Management and Security. The Exercise Design team included planners from county emergency management, police, and fire and rescue (including EMS), among other partners and stakeholders. Many of those …
As many of those in the incident response field are aware, the time to prepare for an incident is not when one arises. Preparedness professionals routinely schedule training and exercises to ensure that our responders have the skill sets necessary when the need becomes apparent. It is this forethought and …
This summer, the United States and Canadian Coast Guards will partner in a pollution response exercise in Maine, intending to help prepare both governments if such an occurrence were to happen. This exercise, called CANUSLANT 2019 – Canadian/United States Atlantic Exercise – is designed as a learning environment for players …
For the second time this year, the EMSI IMT deployed as part of a DOE/NNSA exercise to provide incident management assistance to DOE/NNSA technical response teams, most recently during the Nuclear Weapons Accident/Incident Exercise (NUWAIX 19) in late April. Conducted at the DOE Pantex Plant in Amarillo, TX, NUWAIX 19 …
Responding to a major incident should never be left to chance. After nearly a year planning, the Cobalt Magnet exercise was conducted in Brevard County, Florida, at the end of February, with the EMSI Incident Management Team (IMT) there to assist. Cobalt Magnet 2019 (CM19) was a Department of Energy/National …
Improving Response Capabilities Through Exercises: A Recap from Clean Gulf During the week of November 12th, EMSI participated in the Clean Gulf Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana. This annual conference covered spill preparedness and response topics, providing a forum for responders, operators, regulators, equipment providers, and environmental groups to …
As one of the world’s busiest strategic waterways, the Panama Canal is critical to global transportation, trade, and security. Due to its key strategic importance, the United States has a stake in maintaining its continuous operation. Should an oil spill, hazardous material release, or radiological incident occur in the Panama …
Elements of this article were originally published by DOE/NNSA. https://nnsa.energy.gov/blog/nnsa-conducts-first-disaster-response-drill-usaid Kicking off 2018, EMSI aided the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with their interagency partners at the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to conduct a field drill, called …
The spectrum of EMSI’s incident management acumen was on full display with the execution of Gotham Shield 2017, a FEMA-led exercise involving local, state, and Federal response to a nuclear detonation in the United States. The exercise, taking place primarily in New York and New Jersey, is the latest in …
On December 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conducted a Functional Exercise at the Department’s headquarters in Washington, DC, to test a Unified Coordination Structure (UCS) concept recently established under its Department-wide emergency management enterprise. The exercise scope involved personnel from multiple program offices implementing headquarters-level coordination for …
