Orange County Strike Team Activation - DRILL  DRILL  DRILL

Post Date:6/18/2008 1:24:58 PM
Last Updated:10/12/2008 9:58:26 PM
Posted By: Bob Barry, Public Relations
Contact: Bob Barry at (714) 713-1708

Location

Orange County

Request Time

06/18/08  14:00

Units ReQUESTED

Ambulances  118 Requested  - 112 Provided

Participating Agencies

Americare, Doctors's , CARE, Emergency, Med-Coast, Priority-One, Medix, Schaffer

Shoreline, and County Rescue Ambulance all participated in the exercise.

Narrative

DRILL - DRILL - DRILL    At 1400 HRS the EOC was activated for a table top training exercise to test the ability of the Orange County Strike Team Activation System.  A mock scenerio was utilized which simulated the evacuation of 2 Orange County hospitals that were in the path of a possible Prado Dam collapse.  Each company was advised of the activation and  polled for resources that could be made available within 30 minutes and within 60 minutes. 

After Action Report

There is a scheduled debriefing at 1445 hrs. 

1 An ambulance strike team is composed of 5 similar type ambulances with a team supervisor deployed as a single resource.

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