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City reports 400‑person EOC functional exercise; after‑action conference to follow
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Regional exercise planner Andrea Davis reported a citywide April 1 functional exercise that activated 26 department operation centers, involved private-sector partners and tested a terrorism scenario under the new response plan; an after‑action report and conference will compile lessons within six weeks.
Andrea Davis, the city's regional exercise planner, briefed the Disaster Council on an April 1 emergency operations center functional exercise that city staff described as the largest San Francisco has run. "We had over 400 participants in this exercise and a 100 observers," Davis said, and explained that departments activated at 26 different locations to feed information to the EOC.
Davis said the exercise used the new emergency response plan and intentionally included a terrorism scenario to stress test interagency coordination and communications. She pointed to a new component called the "community branch," which integrates private‑sector, university and nonprofit partners into the EOC to expand capabilities during a large incident.
The Department of Emergency Management will compile participant feedback into an after‑action report and hold an after‑action conference within about six weeks to identify what worked, what needs improvement, missing plans and gaps in participation. The department is also planning additional training courses this spring and summer and intends to use the exercise findings to refine citywide preparedness and response procedures.
