California Office Of Homeland Security Training and Exercise Division

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California Office Of Homeland SecurityTraining
and Exercise Division

• Emory J Hagan III
• Deputy Director

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Purpose

• Golden Guardian 2008 Update
• Golden Guardian 2009 Overview
• Introduce National Exercise Program

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GOLDEN GUARDIAN California Statewide
Exercise2008
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Statewide Exercise Goals

• Coordinate federal, state and local response and
  recovery activities
• Assess interagency communications
• Evaluate Continuity of Government Operations
• Assess mass care
• Coordinate State support to Emergency Support
  Functions and local jurisdictions
• Practice Decision Making Process

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Golden Guardian 2008 Scope of Activity Within
California
Coastal Region Mutual Aid Inland Region Mass
Care and Shelter facilities selected and
activated in various Operational Areas
State Operations Center Southern
Region Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake along Southern
San Andres Fault, affecting 8 Operational Areas
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GOLDEN GUARDIAN 2008
NOV 15 - 16
NOV 14
NOV 13
NOV 6
NOV 17 - 18
NOV 19
Transition Operations
24 hour real-time
operations
EOC Level Operations
E-Day
E1
E30
E45
Coordinate Activities for 11/17
Earthquake at 1000
Monitor Local (Stand alone) Drills
Gather data for 11/19 Executive Seminar
Manage Support Assets (Dept of Defense National
Guard
SLT FE
Phase from response to recovery
7.8 EQ 1st Response Activities Emergency Declarati
ons
Coordination and Arrival of St and Fed Mutual
Aid End of Response
Executive Seminar
Recovery activities
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Southern California Scenario

• Southern Region
• Magnitude 7.8 EQ for 90 seconds along southern
  San Andreas Fault
• Capabilities assessed
• Emergency Management
• First responder activities
• Mass Care
• Medical Surge
• Casualty and fatality management
• COOP/COG
• Recovery
• Communications
• Decision Making

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Earthquake zone as modeled by USGS
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Consequence Estimates

• Injuries and Fatalities
• Displacements
• Special Needs
• Animals (all types)
• Buildings
• Homes
• Business/Commercial
• High rises
• Hospitals
• Nursing Homes
• Fires and Debris

• Critical Infrastructure
• Bridges
• Lifelines
• Potable water breaks
• Natural gas line breaks
• Electrical grid damages
• Cell Phones/Landlines
• Internet
• Television and radio
• Economic Impact

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GOLDEN GUARDIAN California Statewide
Exercise2009
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2009 State Goals

• Assess Catastrophic Incident Annex of new State
  Emergency Plan
• Assess communications interoperability
• Assess federal, state and local response and
  recovery plans
• Assess port / economic recovery plan

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State of California Overlay onto the East Coast
Major East Coast Ports (in Overlay
Areas) Boston New York / New Jersey Philadelphia B
altimore Norfolk Wilmington, DE

• SF

• Sac

Oak

• Stockton

• Port H

• LA/Long Beach

• SD

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Golden Guardian 09

• November 12-23, 2009 window
• Theme - Port Maritime Security
• Scenario - Terrorist incidents in major
  California ports
• Robust 6 month prevention exercise

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Golden Guardian 09

• Upcoming events
• July 08 Executive level Concept Objective
  meeting
• Executive emergency managers senior Navy, Coast
  Guard, and port officials
• August 08 Proposed Port Security Seminar
• September October 08 Regional / State Agency
  Concept Objectives Conferences

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National Exercise Program
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National Exercise Program Overview

• Designed for leadership of Federal departments
  and agencies
• Coordination and synchronization of Federal level
  exercises
• Establishes a 5 year exercise schedule

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National Exercise Program Overview

• Establishes a tiered system of exercises
• Tier I National Level Exercises (NLEs)
• All appropriate department and agency heads
  participate
• Tier II Focused on federal strategy policy
  issues
• Tier III Federal organization specific exercises
• Example Northcoms VIGILIANT SHIELD
• Tier IV State, local, private sector level
  exercises
• Example Golden Guardian

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National Exercise Schedule

• A multiyear plan for National Level Exercises
  (NLEs)
• Occur annually in May or July
• Rotate to different FEMA Regions each year
• State plan aligns Golden Guardian with NLE
  schedule
• Synergized and synchronized through the FEMA IX
  and State Training Exercise Planning Workshops
  (TEPWs)

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Old Multi-Year Plan
EARTHQUAKE
Other States
TOPOFF
Hurricane
Regions
TSUNAMI
FEMA
California
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New Synergized Multi-year Plan
Golden Guardian
NLE EARTHQUAKE
NLE EARTHQUAKE
Other States
NLE EARTHQUAKE
FEMA IX
US DHS
NLE EARTHQUAKE
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T E Division Points of Contact

• Jim Ayre
• Chief Assistant Deputy Director
• Cell 916.417.3841
• Email james.ayre_at_us.army.mil
• Chuck Pratt
• Assistant Deputy Director, Training
• Office 916.324.7189
• Email Charles.Pratt_at_ohs.ca.gov
• Alex Cabassa
• Office 916.324.9128
• Email Alex.Cabassa_at_ohs.ca.gov

• Jack Hagan
• Director, HSTEP
• Cell 916.267.7201
• Email Emory.Hagan_at_us.army.mil
• Steven Goff
• Assistant Deputy Director, Exercises
• Cell 916.826.8117
• Email steven.goff_at_ohs.ca.gov
• Lou Palm
• Golden Guardian Lead Planner
• Cell 571.237.9203
• Email lou.palm_at_orise.orau.gov

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