8:30 am to 4:30 pm

EMS Response to the Active Shooter is sponsored by the Sunderland Fire Department and will be taught by STS Consulting – EMS Tactical Training. Participants will learn how to be aware of a potential active shooter incident and how to respond to an active shooter in progress. After classroom/lecture time, participants will head into stations and will perform the skills learned from the classroom time. Some of the topics covered include:

• History of the active shooter
• Lessons learned
• Pre-planning
• Static vs. dynamic medical teams

For more information, please contact Lieutenant James Tower at fire@townofsunderland.us or (413) 665-2465.

10 am to 12 pm

This exercise has been postponed and will be rescheduled. Please contact Carolyn Ness with any questions at (413) 774-5824 or acornhillfarm@hotmail.com.

The purpose of this Exercise is to increase the involvement of amateur radio operators in emergency back-up communications for local Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) and to provide an opportunity for hospitals, EOCs, and the ham radio community to formalize and strengthen their communication relationships.

In this exercise scenario, a severe ice storm has struck the region, jeopardizing the delivery of an oxygen tank to an area hospital. Under this scenario, each hospital could contact via ham radio local EOCs for road conditions and closures update, so that each hospital could successfully complete the oxygen tank delivery.  Area hospitals are generally ham radio capable, but not all local communities have ham radio capability. This exercise offers the chance for each Western Massachusetts community to identify and reach out to amateur radio operators and to involve them in emergency back-up communications.

This Exercise may qualify as a DPH deliverable. For more information and to sign up for this exercise, please contact:

Carolyn Ness: Deerfield Selectboard Member and Western Regional Homeland Security Advisory Council Member: (413) 774-5824 or acornhillfarm@hotmail.com

OR

Chris Myers, Shelburne EMD and Franklin County Ham Radio Club President: (413) 625-0344 or camyers_1@verizon.net

9am to 1pm

Contact: Tracy Rogers at 413-774-3167 x118 or regionalprep@frcog.org.

Description: The Franklin County REPC is holding a table top exercise to test its newly developed ethanol response plan. The target audience includes firefighters and other disciplines that generally respond to hazmat incidents, though anyone is welcome to observe. The event scenario will take place in Lake Pleasant (Montague).

Participants: This course is open to anyone; suggested for those that generally respond to HazMat incidents.

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Contact:  Mary Praus, Homeland Security Project Planner, mpraus@frcog.org or 413.774.3167 x131

Description: Social Media Training is playing a key role in emergency preparedness. This course is designed for members of emergency preparedness and response programs in Western Massachusetts and is designed to help local first responder communities learn the latest techniques for social media use in all phases of emergency management: preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. Three offerings of the course will be offered. A full day version on Friday, September 21 and two condensed versions, one the evening of Thursday, Sept. 20 and the other the morning of Saturday, September 22. Pre-training materials and information are available at the training blog found at  WesternMassSMEM.wordpress.com. Interested participants are encouraged to follow this blog as online pre-training sessions will be provided here.

Participants: Training is open to WRHSAC constituents, including individuals from each of the 10 DHS  disciplines, within the boundaries of the western region geographical area. If you do not fall into this category, you will be placed on a waiting list. Registration for the course is found here.

8:30am to 4:30pm

Contact: Eric Stratton, STS Consulting estratton625@gmail.com or 413-531-8699

Description: The Deerfield Police department, with grant funding from the Western Regional Homeland Security Advisory Council, will be hosting  Officer Down Rescue – Instructor Course, September 12 – 14, 2012  from 0830 – 1630.  The course will be conducted by STS Consulting, www.tactical-ems.com. Lunch will be provided and OEMS credits will be applied for prior to the course.This training will encompass techniques that will enable Law Enforcement Officers to become instructors in Officer Down Rescue &, Self Care and Buddy Aid. Participants will learn techniques such as but not limited to conducting self assessments, hemorrhage control, application of tourniquets, vehicle rescues, ballistic shield rescues, giving medical care behind cover and the use of improvised bandaging techniques. Course participants will conduct these medical drills with, two hands, single hand, vision impaired and in a variety of positions.  Course participants will engage targets down range with their department issue weapons (.40, .45. .223. 5.56 or slugs) from a variety of positions to make the training as realistic as possible.

Participants: This course is open to law enforcement and EMS agencies in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire & Hampden county. Class size is limited to 30 participants.

8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Contact: Eric Stratton, STS Consulting estratton625@gmail.com or 413-531-8699

Description: This course will encompass four topics: Law Enforcement Patrol: Motor Vehicle Hides – Guns, Drugs and Terrorism, Recognition. Prevention, and Management of Excited Delirium and Sudden In-Custody Death, Emerging Gang Culture and New threats in Western MA, and Methamphetamine & Other Emerging Drug Trends.

Participants: This course is open to law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire & Hampden county. Class size is 40 participants.

Description: This exercise will test the emergency dispensing site (EDS) plans of communites in Hampden County.

Contact: Soloe Dennis, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, smdennis@pvpc.org or at 413.781.6045

8:30 - 11:30 am

Description: This exercise will test the regional hazardous materials response plan of communities in Hampden County.

For more information, please contact: Soloe Dennis, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, smdennis@pvpc.org or at 413.781.6045.

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