Loudon County Training Officers Association

Multi Agency Training Session

 

Saturday July 31st 2004                                    at the Loudon County Fire Rescue Building

 

Agenda

7:30     Sign in and get acquainted

8:00     Welcome, Introductions,   Today’s Activities                 Howard / Trey             

8:15     Loudon County Dive Rescue Team                                           Howard or Earl Poe

8:30     Loudon County Fire/Rescue                                                     Trey

8:45     Lenoir City Fire Dept                                                                Richard

9:00     Greenback Fire Dept                                                                Ronnie or Howard

9:15     Tellico Village Fire Dept                                                           John Manners

9:30     Philadelphia Fire Dept                                                   Bud                             

9:45     Loudon Fire Dept                                                                     Rondall

10:00   Seatow                                                                                     Chad

10:15   TVA Police                                                                              Sgt Bob Klyce

10:30   Greenback Rescue Squad                                                         Roy

10:45   Tellico Boaters Assistance Team                                               Don or Larry

11:00   Loudon County Sheriff Dept                                                     Leon Shields

11:15   Rural/Metro EMS                                                                     Dennis or Joey

11:30   Loudon County Communications Center                                   Jennifer Estes or Kevin Walker

11:45   TWRA                                                                                     Andy Collins

12:00   LUNCH                                                                                   on your own

 

13:00   Skills Stations   at Poplar Springs                                             ALL

 

15:00   BREAK

 

15:15   Exercise in Water Emergency Management                               ALL

            locating the scene is part of the exercise

 

17:00   Critique                                                                                    Howard/Trey/ All

 

 

Ground Rules

1                    Lets have fun, be safe and learn something

2                    Wear your Agency work uniform please.

3                    Cell phones, pagers on silent/vibrate, and radios volume to a minimum

4                    Side bars are a distraction to be kept to a minimum during presenters presentations

5                    PFD’s must be worn if you go on the water or with in 10’ of the waters edge

6                    Each agency assumes all risks and liability for their own personnel

7                    Find opportunities to Build bridges, not Barriers between our agencies

 

 

 

 

Morning session

 

 

The purpose of the training session is to bring everyone in every Loudon County agency together so that we all understand each other’s specific requirements, expectations and responsibilities.

 

The morning Session will be primarily an introduction of each agency that may be called upon and expected to respond to a water-related emergency and that have some significant role in either the overall management of water related emergencies or specific tasks within the incident.

 

This should be 15 minutes in length and include at a minimum:

 

            Specific area of Authority (geographic)

            Areas of expertise (water related)

            Specific area of responsibility

            Any specific legal requirements

            Personnel status, paid, on-call, all volunteer, hours of operation etc.

            Any other information you would want everyone to know about your Agency

            Q & A

 

All agencies have some varying degree of responsibility, unique resources, and specialized skill or training. As these emergencies evolve and unfold there is often a transition from a rescue to a recovery operation.

 

This transition is a very significant event in the emergency and typically defines the end of the emergency phase and start of the non-urgent recovery phase. This transition can also represent the line of demarcation regarding specific agency responsibilities and the ownership of the overall incident.

 

The goal of today’s training opportunity is to educate as many responders as we can so that there is a seamless transition of responsibility, progress and resources to best serve our public.

 

Today’s training session is the method chosen by several of the Training Officers Association representing the various agencies in our county to  best educate one another and test our system’s effectiveness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon Session

 

 

Skill Stations     (2 hours)         

Location is TBD (easy egress from land, isolated on water and assessable by boat) probable be Poplar Springs boat ramp.

 

Station 1           Dragging Operations and sweeps                      LCF/R

 

Station 2           Shore Responder and Divers operation LCDRT

 

Station 3           Witness Interview and Scene Security   LCDRT

 

Station 4           Incident Command System                               LCFD and LFD

 

 

 

Water Emergency Exercise       (1 hour)

 

Trey and I will ask for volunteers, and then pick enough (12-15) persons to make up four 3-4 person teams as follows:

 

Team 1 will be in-charge of the overall incident (ICS) and will be made up of fire dept people

Team 2 will have the Witness Interview and scene security and will be PD/FD people

Team 3 will assist the dive team with the search. This will be LCDRT and fire dept people

Team 4 will be in-charge of getting dragging operations going. This is Fire/Rescue people

 

The situation will be a vaguely (witnessed) incident. It will be accessible from land. It possibly involves a boat or jet-ski on the water that “had a rider on it just a few seconds ago” according to our possibly intoxicated witness (special guest).

 

 

 

Critique (All & special guest)

 

For any questions, contact me at 384-3009 or Trey at 986-4212

Thx

 

Howard Alexander