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Citywide drills and EOC tests draw large participation; New Year's Eve partial activation used to exercise EOC functions
Summary
Officials reported Shake Up San Francisco drew wide participation (over 120,000) and described Silver Sentinel, a functional exercise that tested a new Community Branch in the EOC to link private sector and universities; New Year's Eve was used for a partial EOC activation and after-action reporting.
City emergency‑management staff reviewed two recent preparedness exercises and a partial activation that together expanded the city's ability to coordinate across agencies, nonprofits and the private sector.
Andrea Davis, an exercise planner, said Shake Up San Francisco was designed as a citywide drill with businesses, nonprofits and individuals choosing their level of participation. "We had over a 120,000 individuals in the city participate," she said, and organizers are working on a downloadable toolkit and CD so businesses and nonprofits can run drills and adopt templates for emergency plans.
Silver Sentinel was described as a functional exercise for city departments that tested a new Community Branch inside the Emergency Operations Center to bring private‑sector, school district and university partners into EOC operations and information flows. Officials emphasized that about 85% of infrastructure resources are privately owned in San Francisco, making private‑sector participation critical to coordinated disaster response.
Separately, staff recounted a partial EOC activation on New Year's Eve that incorporated the EOC into a preplanned special events response to test communications, decision‑making and interdepartmental requests. An after‑action report is being drafted and will be circulated to participants for comments, staff said.
Officials said the city is piloting a shared GIS/mapping product, developed with DPW and a dedicated GIS staff, to allow departments to enter and view a common visual picture during an incident. No formal decisions were taken; staff described next steps as toolkit development, training integration and continued testing.
