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Bid: $RACESBUL.289
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
(KH6GBX @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832
(916)262-1600
Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
RACESBUL.289 DATE: August 30, 1993
SUBJECT: OPS - No exercise is EVER a failure!
Sometimes those who plan and execute an exercise worry about
it going astray of its goal and possibly failing. Don't!
Plan it, but don't be concerned about it "failing"! An
exercise should never be pulled off flawlessly and be expected or
reported as perfect. Possibly a fire drill, but not a disaster
exercise. It is a training vehicle for the unusual, the
unexpected, the extraordinary. Each one should result in improved
plans, systems, procedures, knowledge, capabilities, and
preparedness. If such be the case, then no exercise is EVER a
failure.
Disasters and crisis are not things that most people like to
think about. The failure to do so, however, can be a flaw that
can come back to haunt you when least expected. It is partially
for that reason that disaster exercises are held --- to reinforce
in people's minds that the impossible can happen; and when it
does, how to respond with the least amount of stress and still do
the job they want to achieve.
In evaluating an exercise, consider the following:
a. How effectively did the people communicate (not radio
communicate, but as people to people) with interagency
counterparts, exchange information, compromise, put aside
rivalries and parochial interests?
b. How well did they translate the thinking/planning and
communicating into choices, decisions and actions?
c. How well did each participant think about their problems (in
the exercise or real life experience) realizing that they could
no longer function in any semblance of normal conditions?
(Condensed from an article by Stan Harter titled "Putting It
All Together" written after a three day disaster seminar for
city, county and other executives conducted by Pete Peterka, then
Director of Emergency Management Services for Sonoma County. The
seminar included a tabletop exercise based on a hypothetical 7.9
Richter earthquake with a nearby epicenter that had "just
happened".)
EOM