U.S. Department of Education 2005 ERCM Grant Community Wide Drills

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U.S. Department of Education2005 ERCM
GrantCommunity Wide Drills
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• Presented by
• Nancy Buyle
• Project Director/Crisis Intervention
  SpecialistMacomb Intermediate School
  DistrictClinton Township, Michigan

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Terrorist/Hostage Situation

• At 800am 830am several terrorists armed with
  explosive devices automatic weapons entered
  five high schools
• Each school had a special "twist"

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Participants

• Five high schools
• Nine police depts.
• 14 fire depts.
• FBI
• State's bomb squad
• Five hospitals
• 2 EMS companies

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Participants, Cont.

• Six OEM
• Others
• Community Mental Health
• RACES
• MEDCOM
• Salvation Army

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Purpose

• Test schools, county and local jurisdictions'
  emergency plans
• Focused on response and recovery

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Planning

• Five planning groups of 5-10 people
• County planning group
• Began planning in December 2004
• Exercise was September 2005
• Monthly meetings through July
• Weekly meetings August-September
• Orientations, table-tops and videos

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Lessons Learned

• School official needs to be at command post
• First responders need to have keys to school
  rooms
• SOP for communicating to individual classrooms
  during lockdown need to be developed
• Police Fire need to be aware of lockdown
  procedures

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Lesson Learned, Cont.

• Knowledge regarding school assets needs to be
  communicated to command post
• Knowledge regarding NIMS/ICS needs to be more
  broadly trained in schools and law enforcement
• Buildings need to be kept in working order

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Lessons Learned, Cont.

• During lockdown, identified staff need to lock
  ancillary rooms
• School personnel need to understand that while
  building is not secured, injured will be passed
  over
• School personnel learned importance of not
  opening doors during lockdown

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Lessons Learned, Cont.

• Overall, schools and first responders learned
  that once a school goes into lockdown that is
  exactly what it does!!