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Colorado National Guard To Conduct Disaster Exercises
Weather-related disaster response teams will practice for tornado and flood scenarios.
From CO Nat'l Guard: The Colorado National Guard will partner with several local and state jurisdictions, government agencies, and non-governmental agencies to exercise response capabilities to assist civil authorities and residents during a disaster response April 3-6, as part of Alpine Guard 2018.Alpine Guard will involve a coordinated response to power and communications failures caused by tornado and floods scenarios affecting Morgan, Elbert, Archuleta, and Denver counties, and the Southern Ute Tribe.National Guard capabilities to be assessed include aerial and ground search and rescue, security, hazardous material response, fatality search and recovery, immediate medical response and triage, civil engineering structural assessment, communications, and logistics including reception, staging, onward movement, and integration of responders, and emergency supplies distribution.
The objective of Alpine Guard is to train with emergency-response partners, improve upon lessons learned from previous disasters, leverage existing capabilities, and improve overall operational proficiencies and partnerships in response to a catastrophic incident."The lessons we've learned from previous disasters in Colorado - and a lot of practice ahead of time - make all of us more effective when our neighbors' lives are on the line," U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Gregory T. White, commander of Joint Task Force - Centennial said. The JTF-C integrates Colorado National Guard forces to support civil authorities in assisting Coloradans during times of crisis and disaster, to save lives, prevent suffering, and mitigate great property damage.Community members in these locations may witness an abundance of military members and equipment, and personnel in hazardous material suits. They may also hear noise caused by helicopters and emergency-response vehicles.For more information about participating organizations and units, visit: https://co.ng.mil/MEDIA/Pages/AlpineGuard2018.aspx.
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