# Presentation: 406679

## Preparedness Tabletop Exercise

## It is a Monday morning in May and due to construction on a major roadway in the area, traffic is being diverted to the road that runs in front of your school.  The office is busy with more than usual "tardies"; even a few of the buses were late arriving at school. The street in front of school is jammed with rush hour traffic and tempers are short.  Your SRO is away in training for the day, but a new, substitute SRO has been sent to the school.

## As traffic thins in front of the school, a pickup truck stops suddenly to let a student in an oncoming car turn left in front of him into the school's parking lot.  A large tanker truck behind the pickup truck does not stop, and rear-ends the pickup truck, overturns and skids into the school parking lot, striking the car that just entered. 

- As traffic thins in front of the school, a pickup truck stops suddenly to let a student in an oncoming car turn left in front of him into the school's parking lot.  A large tanker truck behind the pickup truck does not stop, and rear-ends the pickup truck, overturns and skids into the school parking lot, striking the car that just entered.

## Discussion

- How would the ICS team be notified/activated?
- Which positions would be needed?

## While the office in on the phone with the 911 operator, you learn that the fire department and EMS have already been dispatched to the scene.  The operator asks if anyone at the school can see (without going outside) any diamond-shaped signs with numbers or anything on the tanker truck that might indicate what it is carrying.  Throughout campus, students have approached the front windows to see the accident.

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## Some gaseous substance is leaking from the tanker.  Students from the first period gym class are observed approaching the wreck.  They appear to be following the coach who has gone to the scene to help.  As they approach, they begin coughing.  Some turn and run to the building, entering the office.  They have difficulty breathing and watery eyes.  You see "1017" sign on the tanker.

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## A small fire appears in the wreckage and you are concerned that spilled fuel or the contents of the tanker truck may ignite.  Emergency sirens can be heard approaching.  The 911 operator tells you to shelter-in-place at the school.  The operator reports that the "1017" placard means the tanker is full of chlorine and advises you to move everyone toward the back of each building, away from the accident scene, without going outside.

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## Emergency responders have arrived and set up a command post upwind from the accident scene.  They contact the SRO via radio to confirm that the school has brought/kept everyone inside, shut off its HVAC, closed and locked all doors and windows, and moved everyone to the back of the campus.  The SRO advises that the coach and 3 students that approached the wreck are still out there and are probably "down".

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## People in traffic have left their cars and some are running to seek shelter in the school.  Doors are locked and staff have been instructed not to open them during shelter-in-place.  Reports have come from some classrooms that students are coughing and rubbing their eyes.  A few teachers report that students have called their parents on cell phones. 

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## Due to the expanding fire and favorable wind direction (blowing chlorine away from the school), emergency responders decide to evacuate the school and instruct you to follow your evacuation plan, with everyone exiting quickly from the rear exits. Emergency responders have established a perimeter around the scene and are turning away frantic parents who have come to pick up their children.

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## After safely evacuating the school and assembling at your pre-designated shelter location, parents begin arriving, some after being turned away from the school.  Some students at the shelter location require first aid.  A few others are extremely disturbed and inconsolable after witnessing the wreckage in front of the school.  Staff are having difficulty keeping parents from rushing off with their students.  The local TV news crew arrives.

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?
- What sections of ICS would you activate at this point?
- What critical issues are you concerned about at this point?

## One month has passed since the accident in front of your school.  The front parking area and entrances were closed for decon-tamination, cleanup and repairs.  The coach and two students died (one from inhalation, one in the wreckage).  The school staff is meeting today with district administration and local emergency responders to review the incident and recommend changes to plans and procedures.  What changes will be discussed at this meeting?

## Discussion

- What would each member of the school-level ICS be doing at this point?

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