Alaska Shield 2014 Hazmat Symposium and Full-scale Exercise

Type of exercise
Full-scale exercise
Workshop
Seminar
Action tested
Equipment deployment
Communication
Coordination
Modelling
Protocol compliance
Type of incident
Spill
Rescue
Coastal
Organisation

ADEC (Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)

Kodiak, Alaska

The objectives of this exercise were: to exercise the ability of communities to respond, assume responsibility for initial life safety needs at the local level, assess the State’s ability to coordinate resources and actions to quickly support and stabilize the life safety situation throughout the State, while planning forward for sustained response and long-term recovery, exercise joint state and federal response to a catastrophic event.

Human health protection
National
English

Exercises documentation

Alaska Shield Exercise 2014 - Exercise Summary

Report
USDA - ESF
Report summarising the Alaska Shield, that was a full scale exercise sponsored by the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management utilizing a catastrophic 9.2 magnitude earthquake and tsunami scenario.
2014
English

Alaska Shield Exercise 2014 - Video

Multimedia
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Video summarising the exercise.
2014
English