Winter Storm Exercise Description

Preparing emergency responders and organizations to manage the unique challenges posed by severe winter weather is crucial for towns with harsh winters. From hazardous road conditions to widespread power outages, winter storms can cause large-scale disruptions, impacting both safety and infrastructure. This course equips participants with the knowledge and tools needed to coordinate effective, multi-agency responses, ensuring timely support and resource management. As winter storms become more frequent and intense, this training is crucial for maintaining community resilience and readiness during such events.

Who Can Benefit From This NIMS 1 Tabletop Exercise?

• Law Enforcement (LE)
• Public Works (PW)
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
• Governmental Administrative (GA)
• Fire Services (FS)
• Public Safety Communications (PSC)
• Hazardous Material (HazMat)
• Health Care (HC)
• Emergency Management Agency (EMA)
• Public Health (PH)

What You Get

Four sets of tools for this scenario. Find the one that best suits your needs:

• Simple Discussion Sheets
• Instructions for Conducting a Virtual Delivery
• Full Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP): A consistent, editable full set of templates to include pre-developed objectives, capabilities and evaluation guides for a full tabletop exercise
• Full HSEEP version of the scenario template set based in our Chelsea County USA online simulation environment

All of the required HSEEP paperwork for a tabletop exercise is pre-assembled and able to be edited to fit your organization’s needs.

• Situation Manual
• PowerPoint Briefing Slides
• Exercise Summary
• Exercise Evaluation Guides and After-Action Improvement Plan Templates
• Participant Feedback Forms

Our scenarios also come with hundreds of electronic files to support your tabletop exercise:

• Custom Forms
• Custom Plans
• Informational Sheets
• Maps for Chelsea County USA (our own simulation environment)
• ICS Forms
• Custom-Built ICS Document Products From The Blue Cell, LLC.

Does all of this sound overwhelming? Not to worry! After purchasing, you will also receive a 30 minute over-the-phone consultation with a TTX Vault member to help you get started and make the most of your tabletop exercise!

This concept and product are designed to keep in mind how valuable time is to organization leaders, emergency managers, and public safety professionals. TTX Vault scenarios give you and your organization a jump start on the tedious process of exercise assembly. We help you get the discussion underway so you can quickly keep your people, customers, constituents, or students safe.