Severe Weather and A New Chief..... The not so perfect storm.
(Room 1B)
19 Feb 20
8:00 AM
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9:45 AM
Tracks:
Strategy and Tactics
On September 17, 2019 severe weather threatened Chesterfield County Virginia, resulting in several incident responses from a EF2 Tornado. The tornado covered approximately nine miles of destruction path, caused severe damage to several large structures, and was responsible for several building collapses along the Hull Street Road corridor. This class will focus on the lessons learned from the after-action report, to include organizational, incident and timeline overview, incident response, mitigation, demobilization phases. We will then take a detailed look at the lessons learned from the above areas so that other may learn from our experience. The class will include audio of first hand video footage, incident wave file, and other auditory components to illustrate the lessons reinforced and learned. Those lessons include command presence, ICS organizational and strategic guidance during high risk, low frequency emergency events, and complex incidents.