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Theres the state, the state has resources, the feds, the other federal partners, they have resources, absolutely. When i say dod, please dont take it the wrong way, im encapsulating the entire family. When we throw a party, we go big. We dont do Little Things very often in San Francisco but every hundred years or so, we do it in a big way and you know what, the bay area is overdue. Were going to need every player at the table. Thats one of the best things we do with these exercises is getting to know whats available. With that i will ask the medical panel to come up so we can get the next part...

Supply how do we replenish that. San francisco does not have a lot of Storage Space so we are not able to store medications to a great extent in the area. I was just going to echo, our capability does come with its own internal pharmaceutical supply, although it is limited and so that would be important for us to understand what the resupply process would be as we move forward on that. So we can certainly hit the ground running, but then we would need some sort shortly thereafter. Mine is a twopart question. Weve seen in ismat turkey in 1999 a number of walking wounded that will immediately ov...

Defined chain of command and a large response capable of being produced. However, in an overwhelming disaster things dont always go as planned and certainly our experiences in combat has showed us there and Prior Experience with disasters have outlined that even though theres a welldefined system of response it doesnt always work out. What i defined yesterday was that logistics problems may get in the way and interfere with medical surge planning as is outlined. Putting resources where they are needed in a huge disaster may outstrip the ability of local authorities to do that because roads are...

Resources that his agency has versus the ones that the military has and he said at one point they started looking down in terms of typing, i have this, you have this, how are we going to respond and get the resources we need to deal with the incident. Id like to hear from all of you what did you learn about what the other agencies capabilities are and how did that open your eyes . Yesterday we had a great opportunity to look at a variety of resources. In the midst of all the demonstrations that we had, we actually had an hour lecture on dsca, which is pretty incredible to get everything about ...

The California National guard has air and land assets that are substantial and can be rapidly deployed to assist the civil responders in their mission to move people, to get things set up, to establish common security. Its a partnership that really needs to happen and is natural. The governor controls the California National guard, he can make forces appear very rapidly in support of a regional disaster, a local emergency or wherever they are needed, and transportation, communication, security logistics capabilities that come to the table really augment the medical care thats being provided in...