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St. Charles County runs full-scale tornado response exercise with volunteer teams
Summary
Janie Albright, St. Charles County emergency management director, said Operation Restoring Calm is a full-scale exercise using CERT teams, the county emergency communications association, COAD partners and Medical Reserve Corps volunteers to simulate POD operations distributing supplies to tornado victims.
Janie Albright, director of emergency management for St. Charles County, said the agency staged a full-scale exercise called Operation Restoring Calm to test response to a large tornado.
"Today we're doing our operation restoring calm full-scale exercise," Albright said, announcing that volunteer groups and partner organizations would be deployed in the field.
Albright named participating groups as the Emergency Communications Association of St. Charles County, O'Fallon CERT, Wentzville CERT, St. Charles City CERT, COAD partners and Medical Reserve Corps volunteers. She said teams would simulate point-of-distribution (POD) operations — distributing supplies and other items to victims of a large, devastating tornado.
The exercise emphasizes coordination with volunteer organizations and medical reserve volunteers to practice logistics and communications in a mass-distribution scenario. No formal actions, ordinances or votes were part of the remarks; the segment was an operational announcement and overview of the exercise's participating partners and simulated activities.
The county did not provide a timetable or further operational details in the recorded segment.
