Joint Exercises

Football Stadium Shooting - Mass Casualty Incident - November 16, 2023

The exercise was a facilitated tabletop exercise with members of the Emergency Preparedness Interagency Collaborative (EPIC) and their invited guests. The tabletop exercise covered preparedness, response, and recovery phases for an after-hours football stadium incident (shooting - mass casualty incident). The goal for all participants was to remain focused during the discussion on their respective agency’s emergency plans and protocols. The tabletop exercise was not designed to evaluate any one specific school’s emergency preparedness, response and/or recovery protocols.  

Exercise participants participated in the following three (3) modules:

• Module 1:  Preparedness: School Resources and Staged Assets

• Module 2:  Response: Incident Occurs; Initial Actions & Notifications

• Module 3:  Recovery: Security, Evacuation, PIO, Medical, Reunification

Exercise participants were broken into five (5) different function groups (security; public information officer; medical; evacuation; mass care/reunification) and were given 30 minutes as individual groups to dialogue each of the 3 modules. Each group then reported out to the larger groups their concerns and challenges for their specific function and how to best address the unfolding incident as presented in the Situation Manual. A PowerPoint and enlarged maps of the impacted stadium was used to simulate the progression of the incident as participants were taken through each module.

Violent Intruder - November 17, 2022

The exercise was a facilitated tabletop exercise with members of the Emergency Preparedness Interagency Collaborative (EPIC). The tabletop exercise covered the response and recovery phases to a violent school incident – primarily focused on the recovery phase for the exercise. Even though the locations depicted during the tabletop exercise varied, the goal for all participants was to remain focused during the discussion on their respective agency’s emergency plans and protocols. The tabletop exercise was not designed to evaluate any one specific school’s emergency response/recovery protocols.  

Participants participated in the following four (4) modules:

• Module 1:     Response: Incident Occurs; Initial Actions and Notification(s)
• Module 2A:  Recovery: Student/Family Reunification (Hospitals)
• Module 2B:  Recovery: Student/Family Reunification (Off Campus)
• Module 3:     Recovery: Family Assistance Center (FAC)

Exercise began with a scenario summary. Following the scenario, exercise participants were taken through each module one at a time to discuss arising issues, using prompting discussion questions to make critical decisions as necessary. A PowerPoint and enlarged maps of the impacted school and other locations were used to simulate the progression of the incident as participants were taken through each module.

wildfire planning - November 8, 2021

Tabletop Exercise (TTX) lasting 2.5 hours that involved three (3) training modules that took exercise participants through a similar TTX from May 22, 2019 (below): Initial Response & Notifications; Conditions Worsen & Evacuation; and finally Sustained Threat and Advanced Planning. 

silverado fire - debrief 2020

On October 26, 2020, the Silverado Fire impacted the City of Irvine and other surrounding communities. As a result of the wildfire preparedness work by members of the Emergency Preparedness Interagency Collaborative (EPIC), schools in the Greater Irvine area were able to quickly coordinate with law enforcement to evacuate impacted schools and reunify students with their families at an off site location. On December 9, 2020, EPIC came together virtually to conduct a debrief on lessons learned.