Exercise looks at how to respond to large scale Hazmat incident

Exercise looks at how to respond to large scale Hazmat incident

Exercise looks at how to respond to large scale Hazmat incident

Sedgwick County Emergency Management and the Local Emergency Planning Committee hosted an Operational Hazmat Table-Top Exercise Wednesday in Wichita.

Representatives from local hospitals, health care and nursing facilities, home health, manufacturing, non-profit organizations, as well as schools, fire departments and local agencies, participated in the exercise, which was held at the National Guard Heartland Preparedness Center in north Wichita.

The exercise was designed to give the organizations representatives an understanding of how a large scale hazardous materials event would effect their operations and how they would respond to it.  The scenario of the table-top exercise involved a semi-truck accident under Interstate 235 at Kellogg, and the leak of chlorine gas.  The representatives sat in groups and discussed all of the impacts created by such an event and how their individual organizations would respond and address events as they unfolded over time.

The purpose of the exercise was to identify issues that may arise from a Hazmat scenario and ways to address them collectively between the private and public sector.  The Local Emergency Planning Committee is a volunteer committee under Sedgwick County Emergency Management whose mission is to provide information sharing, community planning, exercise design/implementation, the critique of emergency incidents—real or exercised, other activities aimed at efficient, compassionate, and rapid response to disaster survivors’, care-givers’, and workers’ needs in times of disasters.

For more information about the LEPC, click here.

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