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Regional "Yellow Command" exercise and SFO drills tested sheltering and unified command
Summary
Officials said the Bay Area's Yellow Command exercise (Sept. 6 scenario) activated nearly 3,000 participants across 12 counties and tested mass-care and sheltering—including a San Francisco activation at St. Mary's Cathedral with an integrated medical treatment area.
Corinne Bachir, the exercise director for Yellow Command, told the council the Sept. 6 regional exercise used a 7.9 earthquake scenario to practice mass-care and shelter operations across the 12-county Bay Area. "Our intent was to build local government capabilities to provide mass care and shelter services for those 300,000 plus folks throughout the Bay Area region," Bachir said, describing 18 full-scale…
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