FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is offering a hurricane-based virtual tabletop exercise (VTTX) focusing on historical events and recovery actions.
Each one-day VTTX – scheduled for April 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 from 12:00-4:00 p.m. EST – involves key personnel discussing simulated scenarios in an informal setting. The VTTX is useful for assessing plans, policies, training, and procedures.
EMI conducts a monthly series of VTTXs using a teleconference platform to reach community-based training audiences around the country, providing a virtual forum for disaster training. The design of the VTTX is for a group of 10 or more representatives from state, tribal and local emergency management communities of practice.
Participants must have an appropriate site equipped with video teleconference capability. The goals of the VTTX are to test the participants’ knowledge, skills, and abilities to conduct all-hazards emergency response and recovery effectively. The VTTX also enables coordination response operations with counterparts from federal agencies, state and local governments, private sector organizations, non-governmental agencies and other whole community partners.
To participate in a VTTX, submit an email request to Doug Kahn at [email protected] or call 301-447-7645. Please send a courtesy copy email to the Integrated Emergency Management Branch at [email protected] or call 301-447-1381. Session content is the same each day and participants only need to attend one session. The registration deadline is Friday, March 11. Additional information is available at https://training.fema.gov/programs/emivttx.aspx.