“That’s a really important piece of this puzzle.” ‘Knowing we’re not going to have water, knowing we’re not going to have sewer, we’re not going to have communication or energy, what are the things you and your family need to be disaster survivors and not disaster victims,” Phelps said. He said residents should prepare to be self-sufficient for at least a week, if not two or three weeks. The exercise reinforced for Oregon Office of Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps how long it might take for quake relief to reach people in disaster-stricken parts of Oregon and Washington. So, we’re going to have to make hard decisions.”
“Our priority is lifesaving and life sustaining, as always.
“What we’re doing right now is critical,” Nunn said. Nunn said walking through the earthquake and tsunami response in detail, technically known as a “Rehearsal of Concept,” should yield learnings that will be incorporated into an updated federal Cascadia Subduction Zone plan. “We've got the experts down there right now talking about what's real, how long it's going to take, what roads may be available, what's not available," said FEMA Regional Administrator Willie Nunn, looking down on the exercise from an overhead balcony. Federal Emergency Management Agency and military officials offered possible solutions such as deploying Army logistics battalions.Įmergency planners could move pins representing earthquake response resources during an exercise at Camp Murray, Washington, on May 4. Planners moved stanchions representing resources such as search and rescue, security and air support across a basketball court-sized map of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.įrom tables arranged around the map’s perimeter, state emergency management leaders raised questions about the capacity of proposed staging areas, typically east of the Cascade Range.
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The disaster response exercise at the Washington National Guard's Camp Murray near Tacoma resembled something out of a war games movie or a giant game of Risk.
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