Preparedness Tabletop Exercise

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Preparedness Tabletop Exercise
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• It is a Monday morning in May and due to
  construction on a major roadway in the area,
  traffic is being diverted to the road that runs
  in front of your school. The office is busy with
  more than usual "tardies" even a few of the
  buses were late arriving at school. The street in
  front of school is jammed with rush hour traffic
  and tempers are short. Your SRO is away in
  training for the day, but a new, substitute SRO
  has been sent to the school.

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• As traffic thins in front of the school, a pickup
  truck stops suddenly to let a student in an
  oncoming car turn left in front of him into the
  school's parking lot. A large tanker truck
  behind the pickup truck does not stop, and
  rear-ends the pickup truck, overturns and skids
  into the school parking lot, striking the car
  that just entered.

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Discussion

• How would the ICS team be notified/activated?
• Which positions would be needed?

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• While the office in on the phone with the 911
  operator, you learn that the fire department and
  EMS have already been dispatched to the scene.
  The operator asks if anyone at the school can see
  (without going outside) any diamond-shaped signs
  with numbers or anything on the tanker truck that
  might indicate what it is carrying. Throughout
  campus, students have approached the front
  windows to see the accident.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• Some gaseous substance is leaking from the
  tanker. Students from the first period gym class
  are observed approaching the wreck. They appear
  to be following the coach who has gone to the
  scene to help. As they approach, they begin
  coughing. Some turn and run to the building,
  entering the office. They have difficulty
  breathing and watery eyes. You see "1017" sign
  on the tanker.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• A small fire appears in the wreckage and you are
  concerned that spilled fuel or the contents of
  the tanker truck may ignite. Emergency sirens
  can be heard approaching. The 911 operator tells
  you to shelter-in-place at the school. The
  operator reports that the "1017" placard means
  the tanker is full of chlorine and advises you to
  move everyone toward the back of each building,
  away from the accident scene, without going
  outside.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• Emergency responders have arrived and set up a
  command post upwind from the accident scene.
  They contact the SRO via radio to confirm that
  the school has brought/kept everyone inside, shut
  off its HVAC, closed and locked all doors and
  windows, and moved everyone to the back of the
  campus. The SRO advises that the coach and 3
  students that approached the wreck are still out
  there and are probably "down".

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• People in traffic have left their cars and some
  are running to seek shelter in the school. Doors
  are locked and staff have been instructed not to
  open them during shelter-in-place. Reports have
  come from some classrooms that students are
  coughing and rubbing their eyes. A few teachers
  report that students have called their parents on
  cell phones.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• Due to the expanding fire and favorable wind
  direction (blowing chlorine away from the
  school), emergency responders decide to evacuate
  the school and instruct you to follow your
  evacuation plan, with everyone exiting quickly
  from the rear exits. Emergency responders have
  established a perimeter around the scene and are
  turning away frantic parents who have come to
  pick up their children.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• After safely evacuating the school and assembling
  at your pre-designated shelter location, parents
  begin arriving, some after being turned away from
  the school. Some students at the shelter
  location require first aid. A few others are
  extremely disturbed and inconsolable after
  witnessing the wreckage in front of the school.
  Staff are having difficulty keeping parents from
  rushing off with their students. The local TV
  news crew arrives.

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?
• What sections of ICS would you activate at this
  point?
• What critical issues are you concerned about at
  this point?

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• One month has passed since the accident in front
  of your school. The front parking area and
  entrances were closed for decon-tamination,
  cleanup and repairs. The coach and two students
  died (one from inhalation, one in the wreckage).
  The school staff is meeting today with district
  administration and local emergency responders to
  review the incident and recommend changes to
  plans and procedures. What changes will be
  discussed at this meeting?

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Discussion

• What would each member of the school-level ICS be
  doing at this point?

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