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And captain napalitano good morning, everyone, im pleased to be here today to tell you about an exercise we conducted this past summer in hawaii as part of rim of pacific exercise which involved 22 participating nations and this offered us a venue to be able to conduct a humanitarian and Disaster Relief exercise with all the different partners that we had together and collaborating with this exercise, this offered a perfect opportunity for us to introduce the military capabilities and interactio...

Big situations occur and major interruptions happen in particular areas. Thank you. Okay, our last question, have you established standards for resilience in cooperation with other lifeline providers and how systems should perform in an earthquake . Ill go ahead and talk about pg e. I would say first off weve designed our own standards for what should happen in an earthquake or any other major emergency. Our electric system is designed to worry about trees and wind and rain, which is what we see...

Function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yep...

Perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where were at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. As we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think were going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what weve done. There were some Great Success stories. One...

Theres a couple networks. And what we really would like is a way to help the community because as youve heard mentioned here a few times, this idea of post traumatic stress, it was prevalent. You can feel it. People were this was a month or so, two months after. Every time there was an aftershock people were on edge. We were on edge, for crying out loud. Were wandering around under this rubble, im looking back at these pictures now and thinking, what am i, an idiot . These buildings are going to...

Response here. This is our urban search and rescue event that was part of the overall exercise. We had a lot of different partners that responded to this rubble pile. We had urban search and rescue, u. S. Coast guard, and this provided an opportunity for our military to work with the federal and state partners there in learning how to interact with their agencies and also being able to learn some of the different capabilities that they have in using their equipment. We also had some medical part...

Can feel it. People were this was a month or so, two months after. Every time there was an aftershock people were on edge. We were on edge, for crying out loud. Were wandering around under this rubble, im looking back at these pictures now and thinking, what am i, an idiot . These buildings are going to come down. If you look at these pictures commerce is taking place under it where in america they would close down the block. This where my family has always had its stall. We got to make a living...

Provided an opportunity for our military to work with the federal and state partners there in learning how to interact with their agencies and also being able to learn some of the different capabilities that they have in using their equipment. We also had some medical partners there where they were able to locate and evacuate the medical patients and that also showed a great partnership. This is the Health Care Association for hawaii and this is the part of the agency that helped us coordinate t...

Taking place under it where in america they would close down the block. This where my family has always had its stall. We got to make a living. What else can we do . We dont have any medical training which kind of okay, you are fire fighters, i figured you had some. That was my naivete at the moment, i think i was a little overwhelmed myself. Thats still my ongoing project as far as that goes, how can we raise some funds and i actually have a bunch of paramedics that would go over there in a hea...

Medical patients and that also showed a great partnership. This is the Health Care Association for hawaii and this is the part of the agency that helped us coordinate the medical response part of this. They were able to conduct a 50bed Disaster Medical Assistance Team hospital on the island of oahu and this allowed the state of hawaii to be able to exercise their statewide disaster drill. One of the things that hawaii has never been able to do is to be able to practice together in one live exerc...