Natural Disasters

O'Gara has designed, conducted and evaluated exercises involving natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. The exercises involving natural disasters usually affect all government agencies, emergency services and private industry. Significant after action items are identified as a result of conducting these exercises. Our firm has conducted numerous exercises involving earthquake scenarios which cause the destruction of key infrastructure and a possible mass-contamination of the drinking water of over 1,000,000 people. The exercises test the client's ability to function under NIMS-ICS, and operate independently of the local Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Continuity of Operations Planning are also evaluated as part of these exercises.