OPERATION Mountain Guardian

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...thought I'd share.
http://blogs.douglas.co.us/sheriff/2011/09/19/operation-mountain-guardian-emergency-exercise/

[h=1]Operation Mountain Guardian Emergency Exercise[/h]September 19th, 2011

NEWS ADVISORYContact: Lynn Kimbrough at lmk@denverda.org (720-913-9025 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 720-913-9025 end_of_the_skype_highlighting)Operation Mountain Guardian Emergency ExerciseSeptember 23, 2011​

Operation Mountain Guardian is a terrorism-based, full-scale emergency exercise scheduled to take place in numerous locations in the Denver metro area on Friday, September 23, 2011. The exercise will involve first responders from 81 different agencies**, will be conducted at ten separate locations and will include loud noises, simulated weapons, smoke, emergency vehicles and other equipment that will be audible and visible throughout the day.
The purpose of this advisory is to provide information that can be disseminated to the public ahead of time to avoid confusion or concern on exercise day, as well as to invite media coverage of the event.

• Operation Mountain Guardian will be held at the following locations throughout the Denver Metropolitan area:

Primary Locations Park Meadows Mall Smedley Elementary School Denver Union Station Community College of Aurora (Lowry Campus)

Secondary Locations Denver International Airport Sky Ridge Medical Center Denver Health Medical Center University of Colorado Hospital Catholic Charities (NW Denver) Sports Authority Field at Mile High

• A Public Information Officer will be available at each primary location to coordinate safe access for media representatives and provide information. A Denver Joint Information Center PIO will also be available at 720-865-7695 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 720-865-7695 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
  • MEDIA: Please contact the Joint Information Center or on site PIO for inquiries related to this exercise (not individual agencies). Media inquiries not associated with this event should continue to be directed to the appropriate agency.

• The exercise has been designed as a learning event for regional first responders to test their capabilities in a scenario that will involve a terrorist-driven catastrophic situation. Exercise play will occur at the four primary sites and DIA. Catholic Charities and Sports Authority Field at Mile High will participate in an administrative fashion to test student/teacher processing activities. Sky Ridge Medical Center, Denver Health Medical Center, and University of Colorado Hospital will participate for the purpose of testing medical surge capabilities and communicating within Incident Command.

• The exercise is scheduled to begin at 0500 hours and end by 1630 hours.

 

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NEWS ADVISORY: Operation Mountain Guardian (continued)​

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

• Operation Mountain Guardian is a terrorism-based full-scale exercise sponsored by the North Central All-Hazards Emergency Management Region, Denver Urban Area Security Initiative, and Front Range Metropolitan Medical Response System. The exercise is a Homeland Security Grant funded event made possible due to grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through FEMA Region VIII and the State of Colorado Governor’s Office of Homeland Security.

• The North Central All-Hazards Emergency Management Region is one of nine emergency preparedness and response Regions within the State of Colorado. The North Central Region (NCR) is organized around ten counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin and Jefferson.

• One purpose of the NCR is to improve Region-wide emergency preparedness, response and homeland security capabilities through coordinated planning, training and exercise efforts. This exercise is evidence of the growing public safety partnership between regional emergency response agencies.

• Operation Mountain Guardian is part of a Regional Training and Exercise Plan established in 2009. Planning for Operation Mountain Guardian began in January 2010 and has included several building-block events designed to prepare responders to effectively participate in the full-scale exercise.

• The overall Operation Mountain Guardian exercise objectives are:

1. Communications: Assess the ability to establish and maintain multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional communications in response to a terrorism incident.

2. Hazmat Response and Decontamination: Evaluate the capability to coordinate multiple hazmat response teams and assess their ability to perform initial response actions.

3. Public Safety & Security Response: Evaluate the ability to establish scene security and crime scene preservation, coordinate a multi-jurisdictional response, and manage intelligence information in order to mitigate the effects of the event.

4. Explosive Device Response Operations: Evaluate the capability to manage and coordinate explosive device response operations using regional bomb squad teams.

5. Onsite Incident Management: Evaluate the ability to implement the Incident Command System (ICS) and establish multi-jurisdictional command and control.

6. Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment: Examine the ability of EMS to provide effective pre-hospital emergency medical care in response to a terrorism incident.

7. Medical Surge: Evaluate medical surge capability at area hospitals.

• While Operation Mountain Guardian is primarily a Homeland Security Grant funded exercise, the event will also rely heavily on local government emergency response agencies, military organizations, volunteer organizations as well as local charitable organizations.

 

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agencies to participate:

1​	84th Civil Support Team	51​	Golden Police Department
2​	Action Care	52​	Greenwood Village Police Department
3​	Adams County Office of Emergency Management	53​	Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management
4​	Adams County Sheriff’s Office	54​	Jefferson County Public Health
5​	Adcom 911	55​	Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
6​	American Medical Response	56​	Lafayette Fire Dept
7​	Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office	57​	Lakewood Police Department
8​	Arvada Fire Department	58​	Larkspur Fire Department
9​	Arvada Police Department	59​	Littleton Fire Department
10​	Aurora Fire Department	60​	Littleton Police Department
11​	Aurora MMRS	61​	Lone Tree Police Department
12​	Aurora Office of Emergency Management	62​	Longmont Fire
13​	Aurora Police Department	63​	Longmont Police Department
14​	Aurora Public Safety Communications	64​	Louisville Fire Department
15​	Boulder County Sheriff’s Office	65​	Louisville Police Department
16​	Boulder Fire Department	66​	Metropolitan Area Communications Center
17​	Boulder Police Department	67​	Mountain View Fire Dept
18​	Brighton Fire Protection District	68​	National Disaster Medical System
19​	Brighton Police Department	69​	North Central Region
20​	Broomfield Police Department	70​	North Metro Fire Rescue District
21​	Buckley AFB FD	71​	North Washington Fire
22​	Castle Rock Fire Department	72​	Northglenn Ambulance
23​	Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment	73​	Northglenn Police Department
24​	Colorado Division of Emergency Management	74​	Office of Bombing Prevention
25​	Colorado Information Analysis Center	75​	Park Meadows Mall
26​	Colorado Office of Information Technology	76​	Parker Police Department
27​	Community College of Aurora	77​	Platte Valley Medical Center
28​	Cunningham Fire Protection District	78​	Porter Adventist Hospital
29​	Denver 911	79​	Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital
30​	Denver Electronic Engineering Bureau	80​	Regional Transportation District
31​	Denver Fire Department	81​	Rural Metro Ambulance
32​	Denver Health & Hospital Authority	82​	Sable Altura Fire Department
33​	Denver Health Paramedic Division	83​	Salvation Army
34​	Denver International Airport	84​	Sheridan Police Department
35​	Denver MMRS	85​	Sky Ridge Medical Center
36​	Denver Office of Emergency Management	86​	South Adams County Fire
37​	Denver Parks & Recreation	87​	South Metro Fire Rescue Authority
38​	Denver Police Department	88​	St. Anthony’s Hospital
39​	Denver Public Schools	89​	St. Anthony Summit Medical Center
40​	Denver Sheriff’s Department	90​	St. Joseph Hospital
41​	Denver UASI	91​	Swedish Medical Center
42​	Douglas County Office of Emergency Management	92​	Thornton Fire Department
43​	Douglas County Sheriff’s Office	93​	Thornton Police Department
44​	Englewood Fire	94​	Tri-County Health Department
45​	Englewood Police Department	95​	University of Colorado Hospital
46​	Environmental Protection Agency	96​	VA Hospital
47​	Fairmount Fire	97​	West Metro Fire Department
48​	Federal Bureau of Investigation	98​	Western Ambulance
49​	Federal Protective Service	99​	Westminster Police Department
50​	Franktown Fire Department	100​	Wheat Ridge Fire Department
		101​	Wheat Ridge Police Department

 

[alrock]

So, I shouldn't be calling 911 for weird forest stuff that day . . . unless it is evil trail gnomes of course.

 

[3Hummers]

Wow, looks like quite the exercise.

 

[Hunner]

Perfect time for something to really happen while everybody is busy somewhere else, hmmmm not sure about this, I think I will stay home.

 

[WarMongur]

I think it took Tim more time to type all that in than the excercise will take ... lol

 

[H3slate]

Very cool! We had a similar event at the Portland airport. It is a good way to see how the different agencies communicate with each other and work out the kinks before it goes down for real.

Of course if the first responders turn into zombies then we are all screwed. :giggle:

 

[HUMMER INVESTMENTS]

Wow!