Bethel Health Department

Being ready to operate efficiently and effectively in an Emergency situation is a key objective of the emergency preparedness system. For that reason Drills and Exercises provide critical training experience for the resources that will respond when actual emergencies arise. We will use this portion of the website to provide information on upcoming drills and exercises and following the completion of these exercises, we will endeavor to provide key learning arising from these drills and exercises.

Regional Pandemic Flu Surge Capacity Triage Center Exercise April 2 - 6, 2008.
Thee MEMA (Managed Emergency Mass Allocation) Consortium conducted a regional Pandemic Flu Surge Capacity Triage Center Exercise April 2-6,2008

This exercise simulated a large-scale pandemic flu outbreak of a very serious nature. A large scale exercise such as this not only tests current levels of preparedness but also serves to indentify areas for future improvement.

Over the next weeks we will be analyzing the lessons learned from this exercise and as analysis and conclusions are developed they will be added to this site.

This link is for a 2 minute video of the Fox Television coverage of the exercise and provides a good overview of what occurred during the drill.

This video provides News Times.com coverage of the drill

Craig LeMault, WSHU Radio, played the role of a patient as well as providing coverage of the event. This link also contains a visual slide show.


Talking Points
Developed prior to the April 2-6, 2008 exercise this page provides background information on the event as well as links to additional web pages of interest.

Purpose, Goals and Objective for the Exercise
Detailed description of the structure of the exercise

Stay tuned!! More "after action" information on the Exercise will be made available as it is developed.