2012 ShakeOut public updates http://www.utahemergencyinfo.com/go/doctype/2515/121439/ Great Utah ShakeOut Media Venues http://www.utahemergencyinfo.com/go/doc/2515/1365431/ http://www.utahemergencyinfo.com/go/doc/2515/1365431/

Great Utah ShakeOut activities
Contact: Joe Dougherty, jdougherty@utah.gov

Will be updated if necessary 

Updates/Additions for April 12 include: Southern Utah University, Salt Lake City and Red Cross.
Updates/Additions for April 16 include: Governor Herbert's schedule on Day 1, Salt Lake Chamber, Park City, Summit County

All three days

Utah National Guard: Been planning for months, will drop cover and hold and then will respond as if the governor calls out National Guard. They plan to mobilize into neighborhoods and have divided Salt Lake County into four deployment areas: Herriman, West Valley, Sandy and Sugar House commands. Will have simulated airlift of supplies and reception of people coming to base and Airport No. 2. Practice our response. Learning lessons and getting better. Setting up distribution points. Simulating guard call out of  7,000, but will actually be a few hundred Guard members.
Contact: Maj. Bruce Roberts, 801-432-4407, bruce.roberts@army.us.mil

Salt Lake County: Day 1 will conduct drill, will work on translocating essential government to Salt Palace, focusing on continuity of government. At EOC we will be SimCell for 13 cities. Day 2 will activate EOC ops, interact with IMTs and providing injects, getting policy makers together phone bridges.
Contact: Jim Braden, jbraden@slco.org

Unified Fire Authority and Metro Fire: Will stand up two IMTs, Herriman fire station and WVC station 75 respectively, will transition to FEMA teams on Day 3, will use same scenario, will do own canned play, test mobilization of IMTs. All 25 fire stations will play and exercise disaster policies including accounting for firefighters, analyzing structural damage and participating in a communications drill.
Contact: Cliff Burningham, 801-835-2775, cburningham@ufa-slco.org

Utah Division of Emergency Management: The state Emergency Operations Center, State Emergency Response Team and DEM staff will participate in the evacuation of the Capitol campus buildings. The State EOC will be activated for all three days with EOC receiving simulated events and responding to them. State Joint Information Center will be activated.
Contact: Joe Dougherty, 801-664-1530, jdougherty@utah.gov

FEMA: Practicing for a no-notice catastrophic event, will activate Regional Resource Coordination Center in Denver and work through linking up with leadership.
Contact: Ed Conley, (303) 235-4909, ed.conley@dhs.gov

DAY 1 – April 17, 2012

State Capitol: Evacuation of 1,000 employees from state buildings on Capitol Campus.
Contact: Joe Dougherty, Utah DEM, 801-664-1530, jdougherty@utah.gov

Gov. Gary Herbert:

The following events are open to the media

11:00 – 11:15 AM     Mock Media Conference and Disaster Declaration
Utah State Capitol, Presentation Room (Suite 100)
Simulated media conference, intended for disaster preparedness (visuals only - no audio).

11:15 – 11:30  PM      ShakeOut Media Conference
Utah State Capitol, Presentation Room (Suite 100)
Topic: Overview of The Great Utah ShakeOut and the importance of emergency preparedness.

1:45 – 2:30 PM          Utah National Guard Briefing
Sandy City Hall, North Lawn, 10,000 S. Centennial Pkwy
Tour of the Utah National Guard mock disaster relief station and briefing from Guard leadership.

4:00 – 4:30 PM          Cabinet Meeting
Salt Lake Armory, 1640 North 2200 West, SLC
Governor will hold cabinet meeting to discuss specific roles during a disaster scenario.

4:30 – 5:00 PM          Media Conference
Salt Lake Armory, 1640 North 2200 West, SLC

Topic: Overview of the ShakeOut, the day’s activities and lessons learned.

SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

Schools: More than 550,000 students will drop, cover and hold on at school
Contact: School district PIOs
Participating schools: http://www.shakeout.org/utah/all_participant_list.php?orgtype=school

South Summit School District: Will conduct a parent-child reunification drill at 1:30 p.m. As an additional part of the drill, buses will be trapped in the bus garage so a parent or their emergency contact person will need to be available to pick up their child(ren) at the middle school between 1:45 and 2:30 pm on Tuesday April 17th. 
More information:
http://www.ssummit.k12.ut.us/district.cfm?subpage=1485253 

University of Utah: Will evacuate all campus buildings to practice accountability of 40,000 students and staff. http://emergencymanagement.utah.edu/shakeout
Contact: Remi Barron, Office: 801-581-7295, Cell: 801-230-4413, r.barron@utah.edu

Utah Valley University: Alarms will sound for one minute and all students are encouraged to drop, cover and hold on.
Contact: Bonnie Andrus (801)863-8206, andrusbo@uvu.edu

Westminster College: Sounding alarms and asking students to drop, cover and hold on.
Contact: Jeremy Pugh Phone: (801) 832-2685 jpugh@westminstercollege.edu

Southern Utah University: Will playthe audio sound  across campus and asking everyone at that time to 'drop, cover & hold on'.
Contact: Rick Brown, Chief of Police, Southern Utah University, (435) 586-7793 BrownR@suu.edu

CITIES/UTILITIES/SPECIAL DISTRICTS

Salt Lake City: Salt Lake City will be exercising all of Days One and Two. Most City departments will participate in the 10:00 a.m. drill. The EOC including the Coordination Group, the Joint Information System, the Policy Group and Branch field operations will activate day one. The Coordination Group will be active all of Day Two. The City will also support families, businesses, CERT teams, etc. throughout the first two days
Contact: Art Raymond, art.raymond@slcgov.com, 801–535-7971

Utah Red Cross: Exercising mass care, three shelters and one reception site, one at Granite High School for 75 clients. Shelters in Utah and Davis County will be up Wednesday, April 18, (See Day 2) will work with Southern Baptists to cook for and feed clients, Reception center in St. George. Safe and well linking at all locations. Red Cross liaisons at EOCs, utahredcross.org. Salt Lake Shelter at Granite High School. Will open Tuesday at appr. noon and close Thursday at appr. noon.
The public can register to visit a shelter here: http://utahredcross.org/general.asp?SN=2959&OP=17592&IDCapitulo=I2OD6QV708
Contact: Teresa Zundel, 801-323-7013, teresa.zundel@redcross.org

Draper: drill for employees, drop cover and hold on, evacuate building, account for employees. Texting to employees in field, will set up EOC, have them come and then work injects, using district reps program, building inspectors emergency plan, will do open house for community members, 7-9 p.m. April 17
Contact: Maridene Hancock, 801-831-7224, maridene.hancock@draper.ut.us

Murray: using drill to get operational, several drills going on, doing a damage assessment, get info from units, getting radio system up, testing communications. Fire Department is drilling on collapsed building, participating the first day.
Contact: Russ Groves, 801-856-7550, rgroves@murray.utah.gov

South Salt Lake police: standing up EOC, one day operation stand it up and man it.
Contact: Gary Keller, 801-412-3635, gkeller@southsaltlakecity.com

Tooele County: Will have minor damage compared to Salt Lake Valley, Tooele County EOC and JIC, then will be in staff support role for needs in Salt Lake Valley, school participation, activating siren system at 10:15 on April 17.
Contact: Wade Mathews, 435-830-2616, wade@tcem.org

Questar Gas: will show Utah: Preparedness Now for employees and will do a push for personal preparedness. They will activate their EOC and will have a rep at State EOC. They want to make sure people’s water heaters are secured and know when and when not to shut of gas. Gas should be left on unless you can hear it, smell it, see obvious structural damage to a home that would damage a gas line or Questar makes request.
Contact: Darren Shepherd, 801-558-4460, Darren.shepherd@questargas.com

Rocky Mountain Power: has robust plans for an earthquake and other emergency scenarios. Operations employees will come to State EOC, practicing coordination efforts with local, state and federal officials. Their employee program continues to encourage all employees to be personally prepared.
Contact: Margaret Oler, 801-556-2160, Margaret.oler@pacificorp.com

West Jordan: At 10:15 will do drop, cover and hold on drill for all facilities for five minutes.
Contact: Reed Scharman, (801) 260-7300, reeds@wjordan.com

Davis County Sheriff’s Office: Will have them drop, cover, hold on, EOC up for first day, damage assessment.
Contact: Susan Poulsen, 801-451-4160, spoulsen@co.davis.ut.us

South Jordan: EOC activated for Day 1.
Contact: Kelly Pfost, 801-254-3742, kpfost@sjc.utah.gov

Unified Police Department: will do call out and phone tree after drop, cover and hold on drill.
Contact: Justin Hoyal, 801-743-5903, jhoyal@updsl.org

VECC: Dispatchers, drop cover and hold, will use our 72 hour kits. Will be eating food from them.
Contact: Geana Randall, (801) 840-4017, grandall@vecc9-1-1.com

Cottonwood Heights: will activate EOC in emergency mode for the day.
Contact: Stephanie Archibald, (801) 944-7015, sarchibald@ch.utah.gov

Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District: Full evacuation of employees, check 72-hour kits, do inspections, looking at having water trailers in strategic locations.
Contact: Linda Townes, (801) 565-4330, lindat@jvwcd.org

Utah Department of Community and Culture: Will have 130 employees participating at three locations, will take this as opportunity to review emergency plans and preservation of art collection and historical artifacts. Need to review and make sure plan is effective.
Contact: Geoffrey Fattah, (801) 245-7205, gfattah@utah.gov

MountainStar Health: Participating first day, bulk of damage is in SLCO, partnering with Utah Deparment of Health to have Blue Med tents set up. Will practice a shelter in place scenario, training staff where need to be, evaluating steps to recovery.
Contact: Audrey Glasby, 801-568-5964, audrey.glasby@HCAhealthcare.com

Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce: The Salt Lake Chamber will be practicing the drop, cover and hold on drill using the ShakeOut broadcast.  Everyone who participates gets to join us in the training room for a milk “shakes” to review our company emergency policies and share lessons learned.

Summit County: After Drop, Cover and Hold On, will be rolling up their EOC in Kamas and two Area Commands will be developed with Kamas EOC taking the east side of Summit County and Park City EOC the west side, along with sharing personnel and multiple communications options between the two Area Commands. A Joint Information Center (JIC) will be tested at the Summit County Health Department

Agencies in Summit County that are conducting Shakeout exercises include, Park City School District, North Summit School District, South Summit School District, Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District, Park City Fire District, North Summit Fire District, South Summit Fire District, Park City Medical Center, Summit County Health Department and others.

Park City: All Park City staff will Drop, Cover and Hold-On at 10:15am.  Key municipal buildings will be evacuated then inspected by the Building Department, including potential shelters.  The Park City EOC will be deployed at the Public Safety Building and fully staffed for a large part of the day working on various scenarios.  All departments will be exercising their Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) at a minimum with a Table Top Exercise on up to field exercises with Police, Fire, Public Works, Building, Planning and Engineering.

 

DAY 2 -- April 18, 2012

Utah Red Cross: Exercising mass care, three shelters and one reception site, one at Granite High School for 75 clients. Shelters in Utah and Davis County will be up Wednesday, April 18, will work with Southern Baptists to cook for and feed clients, Reception center in St. George. Safe and well linking at all locations. Red Cross liaisons at EOCs, utahredcross.org.
Ogden/Layton shelter at Layton Christian Academy. Will open Wednesday at appr. 11am and close Thursday @ appr. 9:30 am
Provo shelter will be at The Orem Senior Friendship Center. Will open Wednesday at appr. 2pm and close Thursday at appr 11am.
The public can register to visit a shelter here: http://utahredcross.org/general.asp?SN=2959&OP=17592&IDCapitulo=I2OD6QV708
Contact: Teresa Zundel, 801-323-7013, teresa.zundel@redcross.org

Intermountain Health Care: Day two is practicing how does hospital respond in a disaster.
Contact: Jason Carlton, c: (801) 668-6690, jason.carlton@imail.org

Sandy City: EOC activated and will be participating on with a POD (Point of Distribution) exercise at Lone Peak Park from 9 a.m. until noon. City website lists all of the information. www.sandy.utah.gov/shakeout
Contact: Trina Duerksen, 801-599-4286, tduerksen@sandy.utah.gov

Salt Lake City: Salt Lake City will be exercising all of Days One and Two. Most City departments will participate in the 10:00 a.m. drill. The EOC including the Coordination Group, the Joint Information System, the Policy Group and Branch field operations will activate day one. The Coordination Group will be active all of Day Two. The City will also support families, businesses, CERT teams, etc. throughout the first two days
Contact: Art Raymond, art.raymond@slcgov.com, 801–535-7971

DAY 3 -- April 19, 2012

Weber County: Search and rescue exercise at Business Depot Ogden.
Contact: Lance Peterson, emergency manager for Weber County (801)778-6682

Utah State EOC: Will wrap up operations at noon
Contact: Joe Dougherty, PIO, 801-664-1530

 

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