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Vice Chair Herrera reports on Pierce County Safety Summit tabletop exercise
Summary
Vice Chair Herrera reported attending a county Safety Summit and an emergency-management tabletop exercise that simulated a water-contamination incident and cross-sector response communications.
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.
