Of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the institutional relationships and getting beyond the scenario. Its not just about the heavy equipment operators, its about city of San Francisco staff and departments understanding how the military works and giving the military a chance to work with the civilian authority in a noncrisis environment so that when they have to do it anywhere in the world, theyve got one extra training day. Thats the w
National guard above us in a helicopter, even though it was really foggy, they didnt see much, but they demonstrated proof of concept that they can connect the video feed. We learned there are limitations in things of band width and video feed that im not qualified to talk about, im strictly a push to talk guy. We know as a city when the earth moves, things fall, we get a lot of rubble. Thats going to be one of our critical, critical things we have to do. We have to be able to move material and personnel and one of the ways were going to be doing that is how do we actually get the debris off the road so we can put things back to work. So that was the command of control exercise. We had the marine corps, the navy, and the National Guard all working with our department of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and
Of public works figuring out how would they work together. We didnt give them a lot of coaching, we just kind of put them in a tent and said here is your scenario, heres some problems, and we wanted them to work it out and they did. So it was a very successful year. Thats what we did as far as the field exercises. Next year i dont know whats next, were going to explore the Lessons Learned from this one, weve already learned a bunch, theyre going to talk about this shortly then learn what are the next scenarios we can challenge people with. It probably wont be the same ones. We are building the institutional relationships and getting beyond the scenario. Its not just about the heavy equipment operators, its about city of San Francisco staff and departments understanding how the military works and giving the military a chance to work with the civilian authority in a noncrisis environment so that when they have to do it anywhere in the world, theyve got one extra training day. Thats the w
This is the cbs evening news. Good evening, everyone i am jeff glor with the western edition of the broadcast and one neighbor said it took three seconds for everything to get wiped out, the mud slide happened 40 miles outside of seattle near oso, washington, an area covering more than three football fields was gutted, take a look at that, burying homes below in up to 20 feet of debris. Tonights families continue to wait both to find out what happened to relatives and their homes. From northwest washington, we begin with lee stoll of our affiliate kiro. Rescue crews are scanning half a mile wide mud slide at this hour, continuing to sift through the remains of entire neighborhoods. Oh, my gosh. This eyewitness was driving when the mud slide hit and captured the aftermath on his cellphone. I just saw the darkness. Thats all i could see, everything from one side to the other side. Basically everything is gone. Recent heavy rains caused the groundwater saturation that triggered the river