Preparing Texas Today WMDTerrorism Incident Regional Exercise Program A Texas Community Partnership

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Preparing Texas
TodayWMD/Terrorism Incident Regional
Exercise Program A Texas Community
Partnership

• for Tomorrows Challenges
• Governors Division of Emergency
  Management
• Texas Department of Public
  Safety

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Exercise Sponsor
SPONSOR Governors Division of Emergency
Management (GDEM) and Department of State
Health Services (DSHS) DELIVERY Texas
Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) National
Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center
(NERRTC)
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Sherman
Ochiltree
Dallam
Lipscomb
Hansford
As of December 2005, 87 Counties have
participated in the Texas Terrorism Training and
Exercise Program
Moore
Hemphill
Hartley
Roberts
Hutchinson
Gray
Carson
Potter
Wheeler
Oldham
Randall
Armstrong
Donley
Deaf Smith
Collingsworth
Childress
Parmer
Hall
Castro
Briscoe
Swisher
Hardeman
Motley
Cottle
Wilbarger
Lamb
Hale
Bailey
Floyd
Foard
Wichita
Clay
Lamar
Montague
Archer
Cooke
Lubbock
Dickens
King
Hockley
Crosby
Red River
Baylor
Cochran
Knox
Grayson
Fannin
Bowie
Delta
Titus
Denton
Young
Wise
Jack
Lynn
Collin
Terry
Garza
Kent
Stonewall
Franklin
Haskell
Yoakum
Hunt
Hopkins
Morris
Cass
Throckmorton
Camp
Rains
Rockwall
Marion
Wood
Parker
Palo Pinto
Upshur
Shackelford
Tarrant
Dallas
Gaines
Dawson
Jones
Fisher
Scurry
Borden
Stephens
Van Zandt
Kaufman
Harrison
Gregg
Hood
Smith
Johnson
Ellis
Callahan
Eastland
Andrews
Martin
Nolan
Taylor
Howard
Mitchell
Henderson
Erath
Panola
Somervell
Rusk
Navarro
Hill
Glasscock
Comanche
Cherokee
Bosque
Coke
Ector
Loving
Winkler
Anderson
Midland
Shelby
Brown
Coleman
Runnels
Sterling
El Paso
Freestone
Hamilton
Nacogdoches
McLennan
San Augustine
Ward
Limestone
Mills
Hudspeth
Culberson
Crane
Upton
Tom Green
Reagan
Houston
Coryell
Leon
Concho
Sabine
Irion
Falls
Reeves
Angelina
McCulloch
San Saba
Lampasas
Trinity
Bell
Jasper
Robertson
Madison
Newton
Schleicher
Menard
Pecos
Milam
Tyler
Polk
Burnet
Walker
Mason
Jeff Davis
Crockett
Brazos
Llano
Williamson
San Jacinto
Grimes
Sutton
Burleson
Kimble
Hardin
Montgomery
Blanco
Lee
Travis
Gillespie
Terrell
Washington
Liberty
Orange
Bastrop
Hays
Kerr
Presidio
Waller
Edwards
Val Verde
Austin
Kendall
Jefferson
Harris
Fayette
Brewster
Real
Comal
Caldwell
Bandera
Chambers
Colorado
Guadalupe
Fort Bend
Gonzalas
Bexar
Galveston
Lavaca
Uvalde
Kinney
Medina
Wharton
Wilson
Brazoria
DeWitt
Jackson
Karnes
Matagorda
Atascosa
Zavala
Frio
Maverick
Victoria
Goliad
Calhoun
Dimmit
La Salle
Bee
Refugio
McMullen
Live Oak
Aransas
San Patricio
Blue 1 Functional Exercise Green 2 Functional
Exercises Orange Functional and Full Scale
Purple Regional Coordination Tabletop Red
Strategic National Stockpile Full-scale Several
counties have participated in Full-scale,
Functional and Regional Coordination Exercises.
Jim Wells
Webb
Nueces
Duval
Kleberg
Brooks
Zapata
Jim Hogg
Kenedy
Starr
Willacy
Hidalgo
Cameron
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Texas Homeland Security Strategy

• Our first goal must be to do everything within
  our power to prevent a terrorist attack.
• -- Governor Rick Perry
• "Coordinated and comprehensive use of state
  resources and federal funding to....
• Prevent
• Protect
• Prepare to Respond to
• Prepare to Recover from

natural and manmade disasters, including acts of
terrorism foundation of the
State Strategy
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Orientation Purpose
To provide Alamo Area COG jurisdictions an
overview of the Texas GDEM-sponsored Regional
Exercise (RE) Program

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Exercise Program Objectives

• Assess new Regional Unified Command and Resource
  
• Response plans
• Enhance Regional capability to manage
• WMD/Terrorism incidents in the initial 12 -
  24 hours
• Improve interaction and cooperation between
  Regional
• responders and the State
• Sustain a continuous and viable WMD/Terrorism
• Incident Preparedness Program in Texas

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Regional Exercise Milestones
Implement improvement plan/follow up assessment
and monitoring
E1 to 6
Enhanced Response Plans, Improvement Plan
After Action Reports
E Exercise Month
WMD/Terrorism Incident Exercise
E-1
Pre-exercise Tabletop
Provides a walk through to ensure all
participants understand the plan and their roles
E-1 to 2
Outcome participants ready to manage the
incident using ICS
Incident Command System (ICS) w/Tabletop
Exercise (optional)
E-2 to 3
Forum for elected and non-elected senior
officials to discuss strategic and executive
level WMD/Terrorism preparedness issues
Senior Officials Workshop (SOW) (optional)
Workshop for personnel with PIO duties, or who
would be involved in media related duties
E-4
PIO WMD Workshop (optional)
Interactive, working meeting to design scenario
and coordinate training and exercise requirements
Exercise Scenario Planning Meeting
E-5 to 6

• Jurisdictional understanding of key components
  of program
• Program buy in from jurisdiction
• Confirm key program dates

Texas WMD/Terrorism Incident Exercise Program
Orientation
Pre-exercise working meeting to identify
jurisdictional needs, capabilities and emphasis
areas for training and exercise requirements
Pre-Orientation Jurisdictional Assessment Meeting
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Exercise Milestones
Pre-Orientation Jurisdictional Assessment
Meeting
Pre-exercise working meeting to identify
jurisdictional needs, capabilities and emphasis
areas for training and exercise requirements

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Exercise Milestones
Texas WMD/Terrorism Incident Exercise Program
Orientation

• Jurisdictional understanding of
• key components of program
• Program buy in from jurisdiction
• Confirm key program dates

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Exercise Milestones
Exercise Scenario Planning Meeting
Interactive, working meeting to design scenario
and coordinate training and exercise requirements

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Exercise Milestones

• Planning
• Purpose determine all participating agencies and
  level of desired play collect information and
  determine specific exercise requirements for each
  participating agency, and discuss types of
  threats and CBRNE agents preferred. Identify
  exercise facilities to be utilized during the 2 ½
  day event. Conduct regional familiarization,
  including picture taking, with view towards
  identifying areas of potential risk, or those
  considered critical, strategic, historic or
  symbolic.
• Attendees limited numbers of discipline specific
  individuals, with knowledge of unique exercise
  requirements and region response capabilities.
  An exercise design team.

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Exercise Milestones
Incident Command System (ICS) w/Tabletop
Exercise
Outcome Exercise participants ready to manage
the incident using NIMS/ICS
Forum for elected and non-elected senior
officials to discuss strategic and executive
level WMD/terrorism preparedness issues
Senior Officials Workshop (SOW)

Workshop for personnel with PIO duties, or who
would be involved in media related
responsibilities
PIO WMD Workshop
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Exercise Milestones

• Training (All Optional)
• ICS with Tabletop. Basic level ICS emphasizing
  purpose, structure, concepts and fundamentals
  including use of forms. NIMS compliant. Short
  tabletop exercise conducted during the delivery.
  Can provide one Public Health version. 40
  participants maximum per session.
• SOW. Targeted for elected, appointed or
  managerial personnel. 6 hours, /_. Is not an
  ICS equivalency. Provides insight into a
  fictional, but highly realistic, WMD response
  using power point show with embedded
  audio-visual. 30 participants maximum per
  session.
• PIO. Ideal for any personnel who might find
  themselves in front of a camera, speaking as a
  jurisdiction spokesperson, or who has media
  relations as a possible collateral duty. Press
  releases, media releases, emergency public
  information, conferences, myriad of useful
  information provided. 40 participants maximum per
  session.

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Exercise Milestones
Pre-exercise Tabletop
Provides a pre-exercise walk through to ensure
all participants understand the plan and their
roles

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Exercise Milestones
Enhanced Response Plans, Improvement Plan
After Action Reports
WMD/Terrorism Incident Exercise

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Monitoring and Evaluations
AFTER ACTION REPORT A jurisdictional AAR for
submission to GDEM for forwarding to DHS (GT) as
required by the HSEEP should be completed
within 45 days of exercise conclusion. (NERRTC
will assist the jurisdiction) NERRTC will also
complete within 90 days a separate AAR that will
go to GDEM to eventually be forwarded to the
county judge/mayor and DDC of all participating
jurisdictions.
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Exercise Milestones
Implement Improvement Plan/follow up assessment
and monitoring

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Monitoring and Evaluations
IMPROVEMENT PLAN (IP) Careful analysis and
prioritization should go into developing AAR
recommendations and IP content. The designated
format for the After Action Report and
Improvement Plan are included on the GDEM website
at http//www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/documents.htm
training (Scroll down to Emergency Management
Exercise After Action Reports Corrective
Action/Improvement Plans) NERRTC personnel
assist in development afternoon of Day 3,
following AAR.
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Exercise Goals

• Goal 1 Gain Control of Incident
• Situational appraisal and awareness
• (How big is big? How bad is bad?)
• Establish ICS structure
• Identification of WMD agent(s)
• Immediate protective measures
• Other immediate threats and vulnerabilities
• Goal 2 Coordinate Response
• Communications interoperability
• Mutual aid agreements
• Response asset visibility and time frames
• Inform the public and media relations

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Exercise Goals

• Goal 3 Request Assistance
• Regional jurisdictions
• Mutual aid agreements
• State resources via the DDC
• Federal support via DDC and state
• Private and charitable organizations
• Industry
• Goal 4 Mass Care
• Medical and health
• Evacuation
• Sheltering

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Exercise Goals

• Goal 5 Mass Decontamination
• Scope of decontamination
• Type of decontamination
• Resources required for type and scope of
• decontamination
• Evacuation to decontamination locations
• Goal 6 Resolution/Restoration/Recovery
• Identify desired end-state
• Identify mid-term resource requirements and
  actions
• Identify long-term resource requirements and
  actions

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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
Plan Enhance operational plans, procedures, and
implementing documents that
support Prevention, Protection, Response and
Recovery.
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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
Organize Enhance organizations which are
structured to most efficiently and
effectively Prevent, Protect,
Respond and Recover.
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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
Equip Identify necessary equipment and
technological

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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
Train Develop and deliver highly focused
training to private, local, state and
federal responders in an expedited
and integrated effort .
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State of Texas Preparedness Continuum
Exercise Develop and conduct exercises that
FOCUS ON existing plans and procedures for the
Prevention, Protection, Response and Recovery
from of a terrorism incident involving a WMD with
the outcome of enhancing those plans and
procedures and understanding how organizations
contribute to the prevention of the incident.
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Regional Exercises (RE)

• Will include Prevent, Protect, Respond, and
  Recovery components.
• Exercises designed to exercise all
  components/elements provided by the State to
  Regions, e.g., equipment/technologies,
  organizations, interoperable communications.
• Front end training optional, if previously
  received in an exercise.

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Regional Exercises (RE)

• Improvised Explosive Device (IED) component in
  all exercises along with chemical and explosives.
  
• Evaluation plan to include auditing of plans,
  MAA, equipment jurisdictional ability to man and
  employ equipment, etc.

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Exercise Requirements to Incorporate

• TxDOT
• HMEP (hazmat preparedness)
• Nuclear/Radiation (NRC/FEMA/DOE/DSHS)
• TAHC (Animal Health)
• DSHS (small animals)
• Parks and Wildlife (wild animals)
• Hurricane Exercises
• School exercises
• TXANG (6th CST)
• DOD

• DHS (GT)
• EMPG
• GDEM standards
• PANTEX (DOE)
• FAA airport requirements
• Sea Port requirements/USCG
• Border Patrol
• EPA/TCEQ (border exercises)
• Cyber Security where applicable

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PH/Med Requirements to Incorporate

• DSHS (trauma designation/mass casualty/hospital
  licensing)
• HRSA (Health Resources and Services
  Administration) (Trauma Regional Advisory
  Councils Dallas/Ft. Worth Hospital Council)
• CDC (Local Public Health Regions and Departments)
• SNS (Health Service Regions)
• MMRS (Metropolitan Medical Response System)
• International Cross Border Early Warning
  Infectious Disease Surveillance Project (DSHS)

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PH/Med Requirements to Incorporate

• Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) (DSHS)
• Mental Health
• CHEMPACK- nationwide project for the forward
  placement of nerve agent antidotes
• BioWatch- "an early-warning system designed to
  detect the release of biological agents in the
  air through a comprehensive protocol of
  monitoring and laboratory analysis." (CDC/DSHS)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
  Organizations JACHO (Hospital Accreditation)

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Organizations and Participants

Local Representatives of Federal Agencies

• U.S. Customs Border Protection
• Border Patrol
• ICE
• DEA
• U.S. Coast Guard
• EPA
• DOT
• FBI
• USDA

• DHHS
• FCC
• FAA
• ATF
• TSA
• Local Military Installations
• Civil Air Patrol
• National Weather Service

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Organizations and Participants

• Local Representatives of State Agencies
  Departments
• DPS (Disaster District)
• Texas Forest Service
• Texas Army National Guard (6th CST)
• Department of State Health Services
• Texas Animal Health Commission
• TCEQ (TX Commission on Environmental Quality)
• TxDOT (TX Department of Transportation)
• Trinity River Authority

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Organizations and Participants

• Local Agencies, Organizations, Private Sector
• Independent School Districts/ Private Schools
• Hospitals/clinics
• Colleges, Universities
• Private Industry
• Media
• Volunteer Organizations Red Cross, Salvation
  Army, etc
• Veterinarians
• ARES / RACES (Amateur Radio Emergency
  Services/Radio
• Amateur Civil Emergency Services)
  

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Organizations and Participants

• Local Jurisdiction (City, County, Region)
• Elected officials
• City Managers/appointed officials
• Fire
• Police
• Sheriffs Department
• EMS
• Dispatch
• Emergency Management
• Public Works/Road and Bridge/ Utilities (power,
  water, gas,
• phone)
• Public Health
• Public Information
• Finance
• Railroads

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Exercise Types

• Tabletop (Area Exercise)
• 1 day
• Participants all in same facility
• Scenario injects provided, with facilitated
  discussion
• Primary focus is consequence management crisis
  management
• is secondary
• Regional (Functional Type with Region-wide
  Participation)
• 2 days with ½ day AAR
• ICS Nodes respond to scenario
• Simulated Response using a game clock/game time
• Focus is on prevention followed by consequence
  management

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Notional Response Nodes
Every incident is unique not all nodes will
stand up each time
SOC
DSHS
DDC
Health Service Regions
DDC
DDC
ARRCC
EOC
MOC
EOC
Private and Public Organizations
ICP
Legend dotted coordination solid command
control
Incident
Incident
Incident
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Prevention Exercise Components

• Background
• Critical goal of Texas HLS Strategic
  Plan
• Priority Actions
• Intelligence centers, investigative
  capability, training,
• expanded border security, and increased
  public
• awareness
• Exercise Methodology
• Identify local team for incoming intelligence or
  information,
• Planners develop string of details and Intel,
  with inject events,
• and provide to contact(s) by discipline as
  possible,
• Daily information exchange ensues, response
  related actions,
• Takes place 7-10 days prior to functional
  portion of exercise.

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Exercise Concepts

• Exercise Player Cells
• Incident Command Post(s) (ICP)
• City/County Emergency Ops Center(s) (EOC)
• Disaster District Committees (DDC) w/State EOC
  simulated
• Other locally nodes desired (i.e. MOCs, Private
  Industry)
• Regional Resource Response Node
• Exercise Control Cell (ECC) established locally

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Exercise Concept

• A Learning Exercise Observer/Controllers (O/Cs)
  assess, facilitate, teach, train, coach, etc.
• Crawl-Walk-Run methodology
• Tabletop Exercise- 1 day (Crawl)
• Regional Exercise 2-1/2 days (Walk, Run)
• Preparatory training (Optional - Recommended)
• ICS Training w/integrated Tabletop Exercise- 2
  and 1/2 days
• Senior Officials Workshop 6 hours preferably
  with working
• lunch
• PIO Workshop 1 and 1/2 days

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Exercise Schedule

• Day 1 Walk Phase
• 800a.m. - 500p.m. (1-hr lunch)
• Focus on
• Objective 1 (Gain Control)
• Objective 2 (Coordinate Response)
• Objective 3 (Request Assistance)

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Exercise Schedule

• Day 2 Run Phase
• 800a.m. - 500p.m. (1-hr lunch)
• Focus on
• Objectives 1, 2 and 3 (continued)
• Objective 4 (Mass Care)
• Objective 5 (Mass Decontamination)
• Objective 6 (Resolution/Restoration/
• Recovery)

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Exercise Schedule

• Day 3 After Action Reviews (AARs)
• 0800 - 1000 DDC, EOC, and ICP AARs
• 1030 - 1200 Consolidated AAR
• 100 400 Draft AAR assistance
• (times as required) (as planned prior to
  exercise)

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Local Jurisdictions
Documents
Equipment
Facilities
Personnel

• Approved EOP with Annexes
• Current SOPs and protocols
• List of participants (by agency)
• Facility and area maps
• Response resources
• Critical communications infrastructure
• Communications architecture
• Message and reporting forms
• Mutual aid agreements

• Internal and external communication equipment
  (State-DDC-EOC)

• Incident Command Post
• Emergency Operations Center
•  ECC facility for TEEX/NERRTC
•  Locations for
•  ICS, SOW, PIO
• and other
• training
• Combined AAR facility

• Local POC
• Exercise participants (by agency and
  jurisdiction)
• Location and time for planning meetings
• Coordinate training needs

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Region
Alamo Area Council of Governments (COG Region )
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Region
Documents
Equipment
Facilities
Personnel

• Training
• conducted
• Multi-
• jurisdictional
• MAA
• architecture
• Multi-
• jurisdictional
• communications
• plan and
• interoperability
• plan

• List of HLS
• Equip

• Single POC

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Texas Disaster Districts
2 DDC's included in this COG area
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GDEM RLOs
Regional Liaison Officer Districts (23)
Governors Division of Emergency Management
Dallam
Lipscomb
Sherman
Hansford
Ochiltree
Moore
Hemphill
Hartley
Roberts
Hutchinson
Michael Brock North Texas Field Spvsr-Tyler (903)
939-6072
Steve Reddish RLO Sub 5A Wichita
Falls 940-851-5588
Potter
Gray
Wheeler
Oldham
Carson
5B
Randall
Armstrong
Donley
Deaf Smith
Collingsworth
David Solis RLO 5B Amarillo [phone]
Bill Campbell RLO Sub 1A Hurst 817-299-1311
Childress
Parmer
Hall
Castro
Briscoe
Swisher
Jim Badgett RLO 1A Garland [phone]
Hardeman
Motley
Cottle
Lamb
Wilbarger
Hale
Bailey
Floyd
Foard
Wichita
Georgia Lucero RLO 5A Lubbock [phone]
Clay
Lamar
Montague
Archer
Cooke
Hockley
Sub 5A
Cochran
Lubbock
Dickens
King
Crosby
Knox
Grayson
Fannin
Red River
Baylor
Sub 1A
Bowie
Delta
5A
1A
Franklin
Titus
Young
Wise
Jack
Terry
Lynn
Garza
Kent
Stonewall
Collin
Haskell
Morris
Hunt
Hopkins
Yoakum
Denton
Cass
Deborah Donahue RLO 1B Tyler [phone]
Throckmorton
Camp
Rockwall
Rains
Marion
Wood
Parker
Upshur
Shackelford
Palo Pinto
Scurry
Dude Speed RLO 4A Midland [phone]
Tarrant
Gaines
Dawson
Dallas
Jones
Fisher
Borden
1B
Van Zandt
Stephens
Kaufman
Harrison
4B
Gregg
Hood
Smith
Johnson
Ellis
Callahan
Eastland
Mitchell
Ray Resendez RLO Sub 4A El Paso [phone]
Nolan
Taylor
Andrews
Martin
Howard
Henderson
Erath
Somervell
Panola
Dennis Baker RLO 6A Waco 254-759-7165
Rusk
Navarro
Hill
Glasscock
Coleman
Comanche
Cherokee
Bosque
Coke
Loving
Winkler
Ector
Anderson
Shelby
Brown
Sterling
Midland
El Paso
Runnels
6A
Freestone
Hamilton
Nacogdoches
McLennan
San Augustine
Ward
Limestone
Mills
Hudspeth
Culberson
6C
Crane
Tom Green
Sub 2B
Upton
Reagan
Houston
Coryell
Leon
Concho
Sabine
Angelina
Kari Tatro RLO Sub 2B Lufkin 936-634-4638
Irion
Falls
Sub 4A
Sub 4B
Reeves
McCulloch
San Saba
Lampasas
Trinity
Bell
Jasper
Robertson
Madison
Newton
Menard
Schleicher
Polk
Pecos
Burnet
Milam
Tyler
4A
Walker
Mason
Jeff Davis
Williamson
Crockett
Brazos
Llano
San Jacinto
6B
Mark Shipman RLO 4B Abilene [phone]
Grimes
2C
Sutton
Burleson
Kimble
Hardin
Montgomery
Blanco
Lee
Travis
2B
Gillespie
Terrell
Washington
Doug Crabtree RLO 6C Bryan [phone]
Orange
Liberty
Bastrop
Hays
Kerr
Presidio
Waller
Edwards
Val Verde
Jefferson
Austin
Kendall
Harris
Fayette
Real
Brewster
Comal
Caldwell
2A
Chambers
Bandera
Colorado
Sub 2C
Fort Bend
Guadalupe
Bexar
Gonzales
Galveston
Teresa Borcik RLO Sub 4B San Angelo 325-223-6555
Lavaca
Uvalde
Kinney
Medina
3B
Sub 8A
Jay Hall RLO 2B Beaumont [phone]
Wharton
Brazoria
Wilson
Al Guarino RLO 2C Conroe [phone]
DeWitt
Jackson
Karnes
Matagorda
Atascosa
Frio
Zavala
Maverick
Victoria
Goliad
Steve Gladstone RLO 3B San Antonio [phone]
Calhoun
Danny Zitterich RLO Sub 2C Pierce 979-337-1015
La Salle
Dimmit
Bee
Refugio
3A
Michael Harmon South Texas Field
Spvsr-Houston [phone]
McMullen
Live Oak
Aransas
San Patricio
Jim Wells
Webb
Nueces
Jennifer Hawes RLO 2A Houston [phone]
Duval
Sub 8A
Kleberg
David Lebsack RLO 6B Austin [phone]
Juan Gonzalez RLO Sub 8A Laredo 956-728-2200
Brooks
Zapata
Jim Hogg
Kenedy
Randy Sijansky RLO 3A Corpus Christi (361)
698-5650
Dennis Guffey RLO S2A Texas City 409-938-7899
8A
Starr
Willacy
Hidalgo
Cameron
Alex Camacho RLO 8A McAllen [phone]
As of 6-5-2006
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DDC
Documents
Equipment
Facilities
Personnel

• DDC SOPs
• Message and reporting forms
• Mutual aid agreements

• Internal and external communications equipment
  (State-DDC-EOC)

•  DDC facility
• SERT location (when required)

• Coordinate participant list
  with jurisdictions and COG
• Coordinate for state agency representatives
• Coordinate for TFS if desired
• Coordinate for 6th CST (WMD)
  participation if desired

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TEEX/NERRTC
Documents
Equipment
Facilities
Personnel

• Exercise scenario
• package
• Post-exercise
• report
• Assist in preparing
• draft of AAR for
• submission to
• GDEM/DHS (GT)

• Self-sustaining

• Exercise Observer/
• Controllers (OCs)
• Exercise control
• cell (ECC)
• Instructional staff
• for training (ICS,
• PIO, SOW)
• Table-top staff
• (TTX)

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Exercise Schedule

• The following dates should now be
  confirmed
• Orientation Meeting (July 6 06)
• Scenario Planning Meeting (Aug 16,
  06)
• PIO Training (Aug 22-23, 06)
• ICS Training/Tabletop (Sept 6-8,
  06)
• Senior Officials Workshop (Sept 28, 06)
• (Indicate of classes desired at least 4
  weeks prior to above date
• and if any ICS for public health sessions
  are desired)
• Tabletop Exercise (Sept 19, 06)
• Regional Exercise (Oct
  10-12, 06)

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Texas GDEM WMD/Terrorism Exercise Program
2006-2007 (Proposed)
June 06
May 06
April 06
March 06
February 06
January 06
14-15 PIO PANHANDLE REGIONAL (1) (JS/DH) 20-22
RE NCT (4) (TF/JM) 27-28 PIO RE Concho Valley
COG (10) (RS/RR) 28 SOW RE Panhandle COG (1)
(JS/DH) 29-30 OC Conf (tentative)
2-7 STATE Hurricane EX (JS/KS/DH) 10 Pre
Orientation ALAMO AREA (18) (TF/KW) 17 Pre
Orientation SOUTH PLAINS (2) (RS/GM) 18 TTX
NCT-COG RE (4) (TF/JM) 22-24 DEM Hurricane
Conf 29 Memorial Day 31Planning PANHANDLE
REGIONAL (1) (JS/DH) 31 Planning Concho Valley
COG (10) (RS/RR)
11Orientation PANHANDLE REGIONAL (1)
(JS/DH) 16 Easter 18 SOW RE NCT COG (4)
(TF/JM) 25-27 ICS TTX RE NCT COG (4)
(TF/JM) 25Orientation Concho Valley COG (10)
(RS/RR)
1 Planning RE NCT COG (4) (TF/JM) 8 Pre
Orientation RE PANHANDLE REGIONAL (1)
(JS/DH) 16-17 Spring Break 21-22 PIO RE NCT
COG (4) (TF/JM) 28Pre-Orientation Concho
Valley COG (10) (RS/RR)
1Pre-Orientation RE NCT COG (4) (TF/JM) 16
Orientation RE NCT COG (4) (TF/JM) 20
Presidents Day
16 MLK Day (holiday)
24 January 2006
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Texas GDEM WMD/Terrorism Exercise Program
2006-2007 (Proposed)
December 06
November 06
October 06
September 06
August 06
July 06
1 (cont) GDEM HLS Conf 5-7 RE South Texas
Development Council (19) (JS/DH) 5-6 PIO NORTEX
REGIONAL (3) (RS/RR) 5 TTX HOUSTON-GALVESTON RE
(16) (TF/MD) 5-7 ICS/TTX CAPITOL AREA
(RS/LS) 6 SOW DEEP EAST TEXAS (5) (JS/KS) 7
Planning RE PERMIAN BASIN (9) (TF/JM) 12-13
PIO RE PERMIAN BASIN (9) (TF/JM) 12 SOW CAPITOL
AREA (3) (RS/LS) 13 Planning NORTEX REGIONAL
(3) (RS/RR) 22-31 Christmas Holidays
1 Planning DEEP EAST TEXAS (JS/KS) 2 Planning
CAPITOL AREA (3) (RS/LS) 7-9 ICS/TTX
HOUSTON-GALVESTON AREA (16) (TF/MD) 7-8 PIO
DEEP EAST TEXAS (5) (JS/KS) 8 TTX South Texas
Development Council (19) (JS/DH) 8 Orientation
NORTEX REGIONAL (3) (RS/RR) 8 ORIENTATION RE
PERMIAN BASIN (9)(TF/JM) 14 Planning SNS El
Paso (8) (TF/KW) 17 O/C Conference (Dallas) 14
-15 PIO CAPITOL AREA (3) (RS/LS) 23-24
Thanksgiving 27-1 Dec GDEM HLS Conference
4 Orient CAPITOL AREA (3) (RS/LS) 9 Columbus
Day 10-12 RE ALAMO AREA (18) (TF/KW) 10 SOW
RE SOUTH PLAINS (2) RS/GM 12 SOW
HOUSTON-GALVESTON (16) (TF/MD) 10 PRE-ORIENT
NORTEX REGIONAL (3) (RS/RR) 12 PRE-ORIENT RE
PERMIAN BASIN (9) (TF/JM) 18 SOW South Texas
Development Council (19) (JS/DH) 24-25 PIO
HOUSTON-GALVESTON (16) (TF/MD) 24-26 RE SOUTH
PLAINS (2) (RS/GM) 24-26 ICS/TTX South Texas
Development Council (19) (JS/DH) 25 Orientation
SNS El Paso (8) (TF/KW) 25 Orientation DEEP
EAST TEXAS (5) (JS/KS)
4 Labor Day 6-8 ICS/TTX RE ALAMO AREA (18)
(TF/KW) 6 Pre-Orientation RE CAPITOL AREA
(RS/LS) 7 Planning South Texas Development
Council (19) (JS/DH) 12-14RE Concho Valley COG
(10) (RS/RR) 12-14 ICS/TTX SOUTH PLAINS (2)
(RS/GM) 13 Pre Orient SNS El Paso (8)
(TF/KW) 19 TTX ALAMO AREA RE (18) (TF/KW) 20
Pre Orientation DEEP EAST TEXAS (5)(JS/KS) 20
Plan HOUS-GALVESTON (16) (TF/MD) 20-21 PIO
South Texas Development Council (19) (JS/DH)
27 TTX SOUTH PLAINS RE (2) (RS/GM) 28 SOW
ALAMO AREA (18) (TF/MD)
1-3 ICS/TTX Concho Valley COG (10)
(RS/RR) 8-10 RE PANHANDLE REGIONAL (1)
(JS/RH) 9 Orient HOUSTON-GALVESTON (16)
(TF/MD) 15 Orientation South Texas Development
Council(19) (JS/DH) 16 Planning ALAMO AREA (18)
(TF/KW) 21-22 PIO ALAMO AREA (18)
(TF/KW) 22 Planning SOUTH PLAINS (2)
(RS/GM) 24 TTX Concho Valley COG (10)
(RS/RR) 29-30 PIO SOUTH PLAINS (2) (RS/GM)
4 Independence Day 6 Orientation ALAMO AREA
(18) (TF/KW) 6 PANHANDLE TTX (1) (JS/RH) 12
Pre Orient HOUSTON-GALVESTON (16) (TF/MD) 13
Pre Orient South Texas Development Council (19)
(JS/DH) 18 Orientation SOUTH PLAINS (2)
(RS/GM) 28 SOW RE Concho Valley COG (10)
(RS/RR)
7 March 2006
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Monitoring and Evaluations

• Lessons learned are pulled from all Texas
  exercises and posted to the GDEM website, with
  all linkage to any specific jurisdiction removed.
• Website address http//www.demwmd.com
• GDEM sponsors a Homeland Security Conference
  with lessons learned folded in for State
  Emergency Management personnel.

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Texas WMD Website
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www.demwmd.com/index.k2?did551326
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Exercise Contacts

Governors Division of Emergency Management
(GDEM) Steve Vaughn [phone] Gary
Weeks [phone] steve.vaughn_at_txdps.state.tx.u
s gary.weeks_at_txdps.state.tx.us
Assistant State Coordinator Terrorism
Preparedness National Emergency Response and
Rescue Training Center (NERRTC) Karen WIlcox,
Program Coordinator [phone] Karen.Wilcox_at_te
exmail.tamu.edu Tom Felts, Program Manager
[phone] Tom.Felts_at_teexmail.tamu.edu Hank
Lawson, Director, Exercises Simulations (979)
458-6923, Hank.Lawson_at_teexmail.tamu.edu

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Discussion
QUESTIONS?

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Preparing Texas Today...
...for Tomorrows Challenges
Mr. Jack Colley Chief Governors Division of
Emergency Management
Texas Department of Public Safety
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