Homeland security

Group Project

Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning Exercises Tornado Scenario

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Part 2 Scenario: D. Longer-term Recovery (2 Weeks after the tornado) It is now 2 weeks after the tornado. The building has been repaired and cleaned up, and the affected production equipment has been repaired or replaced. Production is pretty well back to normal, with both shifts working. However, it seems that some customers have reduced their orders to the company and a few stopped ordering entirely. The marketing staff and sales staff feel as if they are struggling. The stock price is still down; some important shareholders have complained that the company didn't seem to handle the response and recovery smoothly, and they weren't able to get good information in the aftermath of the disaster. The information technology group is pretty burned out because one problem after another cropped up and procedures weren't documented or understood. The database for the administrative systems finally got restored from a 3-week old backup, and then clerical staff from the finance and human resources area tried to re-enter the missing data manually. The telecommunications staff had to troubleshoot and finally replace network gear that was acting flaky, possibly because of the lightning strike. Morale in IT is not good. After-Action Review Within 6 weeks after the incident, an after-action report needs to be submitted to the MAC Group. TO DO: Collaborate and Report The team of emergency response leaders needs to perform an after-action review of all the areas (including the roles covered by the SimCell). Consider these questions:

1. List things that did not go well in each phase and speculate on the root causes of why there were problems.

2. What things were done well in each phase? Speculate as to why.

3. What mitigations can be put in place to prevent or minimize problems in the first place?

4. What preparations for response and recovery need to be implemented? Fill out the template for Part 2 of your report. The end of the template has a place to list your

references used in both Part 1 and Part 2, an appendix for any optional additional information

you would like to include. The end of the template also has the Statement Attesting to Original

Work with a place for signatures for everyone in the group.

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Also: Stay in your roles as members of the Incident Command System structure; do not do an

after-action review of the classroom “group.”