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Marin FEMA tabletop highlights gaps in evacuation communications; local tabletop set for April 30
Summary
A FEMA-facilitated tabletop exercise highlighted mutual-aid reliance, alert timelines, traffic control needs and reentry challenges for a Mount Tam–area wildfire scenario. Belvedere–Tiburon officials plan a local tabletop exercise in the council’s EOC on April 30 to work through those issues.
Laurie, an emergency-management staff member, told the Belvedere Tiburon Joint Disaster Advisory Council on April 15 that a FEMA-facilitated tabletop exercise held at the Marin County Office of Emergency Management surfaced key operational and communications gaps for a Mount Tam–area wildland fire scenario.
The exercise underscored mutual aid as a primary lifeline for the peninsula’s limited local resources, the need to request assets rapidly (including air support), and the importance of timely public alerting, Laurie said. “It’s going to be about 10 minutes” from the time the county is contacted to a dispatched AlertMarin message, she said. During that interval she said officers should be conducting door-to-door evacuations.
The council heard that the county up-staffs during red-flag days, activates a joint information center and readies additional dispatch and fire…
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