4 MAY TABLE-TOP EXERCISE POSTPONED

Due to the relief and recovery responses to the recent storms, the American Red Cross/TN Homeland Security District 2 Tabletop Exercise scheduled for 4 May is postponed and will be re-scheduled at a later date.

27 APR CHATTANOOGA STORM DAMAGE VIDEOS

Please click on this link to view video of the damage caused by the 27 April storm system that swept through the Tennessee Valley;
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/apr/27/live-coverage-severe-weather-conditions-chattanoog/

E TN Quarterly Meeting

The next Quarterly E TN VOAD meeting normally held the first Thursday in May has been postponed until June 9th because of the Red Cross exercise on 4 May.

The 9 June meeting will be held in the Alcoa Fire Department's training room at 9:30am in their HQ at 2010 North Wright Road, Alcoa, TN, near the TYS airport.

Here's a link to Google map of the location. Chief Robinson has asked us to park in the Alcoa Police parking lot that is co-located there with the Fire Department :

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Alcoa+Fire+Department,+Wrights+Road,+Alcoa,TN&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

Please let me ( Mulsand@aol.com ) know if you wish to add anything to the agenda. I think most of the meeting will be a discussion of the ARC exercise, and our organizations' responses to the Knoxville floods and the Greenback tornado. We will also be discussing our participation in the regional Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Fair at Chilhowee Park on 24 September. Please put that date on your calendar and direct any questions you may have about the Fair to Tristie Ebbert ( tristi@tds.net ).

"Great Central U.S. ShakeOut"

2011 ShakeOut: 10:15 a.m. on 28 April

Participate in the "Great Central U.S. ShakeOut" to practice how to protect yourself during earthquakes, and to get prepared.

http://www.shakeout.org/centralus/

http://www.cusec.org/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3071/

NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE EXERCISE IN MAY

NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE EXERCISE: MAY 16 - 19
Please make sure that your organization has current contacts and resources listings in our TNVOAD Resource Directory. Contacts, please make sure you are prepared to give delivery times on your resources.

Please contact Rhonda Haight with questions and changes. rchaight@peoplepc.com

National Level Exercise 2011 Information VIA Our Partners:

May 16-20, 2011

Central US Earthquake Consortium

Get Ready to Shake Out at ShakeOut.org

The purpose of National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) is to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdictional integrated response to a national catastrophic event – specifically a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).

NLE 2011 will involve thousands of government officials at the federal, state, local and tribal levels, members of the private sector, and the general public. Participants will conduct simultaneous, related exercise activities at command posts, emergency operation centers and other locations in the Washington D.C. area and the eight affected central U.S. states (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee). The functional exercise will offer agencies and jurisdictions a way to validate their plans and skills in a real-time, realistic environment and to gain the in-depth knowledge that only experience can provide.

NLE 2011 is also an opportunity to continue to highlight to the public the need to be prepared for earthquakes, and specific steps they can take to be ready.

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Fact Sheets

• General Overview
• Private Sector Participation
• Participant's Guide for the 2011 National Level Exercises 400 Kb PDF

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Press Releases

Expected Participants for the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut Tops One Million

FEMA Urges Public To Be Prepared On Anniversary Of New Madrid Quake

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Training

As part of this exercise, FEMA's National Exercise Division (NED) and Emergency Management Institute (EMI) have developed a series of training programs to assist in preparing participants. This guide provides readers with an easy way to identify and access training information for participants at Federal Headquarters, Federal Regional Offices, State/Local/Tribal Offices, and Private Sector/NGOs.

• Training courses for the 2011 National Level Exercises 1.5 Mb PDF

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More Information About NLE

National Level Exercise 2011 is designated as a Tier I National Level Exercise. Tier I exercises (formerly known as the Top Officials exercise series or TOPOFF) are conducted annually in accordance with the National Exercise Program (NEP), which serves as the nation’s overarching exercise program for planning, organizing, conducting and evaluating national level exercises. The NEP was established to provide the U.S. government, at all levels, exercise opportunities to prepare for catastrophic crises ranging from terrorism to natural disasters.

This year - 2011 - is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named. NLE 2011 will be the first NLE to simulate a natural hazard.

NLE is led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mandated by Congress, and directed by the White House. The states involved encompass four different FEMA regions: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee (FEMA Region IV); Illinois and Indiana (FEMA Region V); Arkansas (FEMA Region VI); and Missouri (FEMA Region VII).

New TN VOAD Web Site

http://tnvoad.squarespace.com

The temporary Domain Name (url) is tnvoad.squarespace.com, but the original "tnvoad.org" Domain Name will be retrieved and used soon.

Anyone wishing to post a news item, or photographs relating to a Tennessee disaster, disaster response, or TN VOAD Member Agency training, award, or social event, should contact: DisasterReliefTN@aol.com

THANKS !