National Preparedness Month
National Community / Neighborhood Exercise Series
With September being National Preparedness Month community, neighborhood and faith based organizations from throughout the country have an opportunity to assess their preparedness and response skills by participating in the Formidable Footprint Wildfire Exercise.
Wildfire Exercise – September 24 2011
Exercises have also been scheduled for the following scenarios:
Earthquake – Flood – Hurricane – Pandemic – Tornado
During this internet based disaster readiness exercise individuals and teams will work through a series of meaningful scenarios and injects designed to provide participants with a means to enhance their disaster response capabilities.
To-date 1,478 teams from across the United States have participated in one of several of the previous nine Formidable Footprint exercise. The following are several testimonials from participants in previous exercises:
Benicia Emergency Response Team - Benicia California
· The drill Saturday was a wonderful learning experience and quit valuable. Looking forward to future opportunities.
Rowlett CERT - Rowlett Texas
· Superb End-To-End exercise. Our organization really enjoyed this exercise.
American Red Cross - California
· This was our first experience with this series of exercises. It appears to be very valuable. We will recruit the rest of the team to participate in a future exercise. Thank you.
There is NO CHARGE for participation in any of the Formidable Footprint exercises.
For additional information or to register for the up-coming Wildfire Exercise please access the following web site today:
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