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NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release
Contact: Joe Dougherty, PIO
Utah Division of Emergency Management
801-664-1530
jdougherty@utah.gov
Plenty to cover during Great Utah ShakeOut
SALT LAKE CITY --With less than one week to go until the Great Utah ShakeOut, the state's largest earthquake drill ever, the Utah Division of Emergency Management is pleased to share a list of the various venues where emergency drills will be taking place.
Currently, more than 856,000 Utahns are planning to participate in the drill, happening April 17 at 10:15 a.m. Various government agencies will continue their drills through April 19. See the participant list here: PARTICIPANT LIST.
This is the beginning of what we're expecting will be an annual preparedness event. When we prepare together, we'll survive together.
Members of the news media and their stations or offices should also assess their organization's preparedness. You can help the public by playing a broadcast of the ShakeOut drill, which you can download, along with transcripts here: http://www.shakeout.org/utah/drill/broadcast/
The following list will be updated and available online here: https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/2515/1365431/
If you have a venue to add to this list, please reply to this email or email Joe Dougherty.
Great Utah ShakeOut activities
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: Will stand up two IMTs, Herriman fire station and WVC station 75, 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
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 scenarios. They will exercise backup plans for shift of controls in company. Service employees will come to State EOC, practicing coordination efforts with local, state, federal, working to educate employees get them 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
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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