INSIDE LOOK: Sentinel Response 2018
Channel: Cal OES
Date: 2018-03-29

Whether it’s been the October and December wildfires, or the following floods and mudslides in January, or even multiple shootings that killed innocent people, Californians and Americans nationwide have faced devastating natural and man-made emergencies. So, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) joined the California National Guard’s Homeland Response Force (HRF) and 95th Civil Support Team, along with multiple State/Federal Urban Search & Rescue Task Forces, CAL FIRE, FBI, the Department of Energy, and several other elite emergency response agencies for a full-scale terrorism response exercise at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena.
 
This edition of Inside Look, we take you into the training itself, a scenario that involved a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks across Northern California following a 6.5-magnitude earthquake. The attacks include simulated improvised explosive devices (IED) and the detonation of a simulated radiation-dispersal device (RDD). Sleep Train Arena served as the training site for IED and RDD response. Hundreds of emergency-response personnel, vehicles, and aircraft participated.