Vice Chair Herrera told the Pierce County Council July 22 that she attended the Pierce County Safety Summit, which included an emergency-management tabletop exercise simulating a water-contamination incident.

Herrera described the tabletop as a multi-sector exercise that focused on who communicates first, how agencies coordinate and how to execute public messaging and operations in a contamination scenario. The council discussed the value of cross-sector planning and the tabletop as an exercise to test communication and response protocols.

The report was delivered as an announcement during the meeting’s miscellaneous business segment; no formal action, direction to staff or follow-up items were recorded on the transcript.