All SW County Emergency Responders:

The Slope County Badlands Exercises are again on tap for this June and September, let’s hope Mother Nature cooperates this time! 

Mark your calendars as our planned dates are as follows:

            Saturday, June 10 – Multi County Functional Exercise

                        A course that will offer practice with GPS units and map reading while testing radio communications, implementing ICS principles and providing a familiarization of the terrain of the Badlands prior to the September exercise.

            Friday & Saturday, September 15,16 – Multi County Full Scale Exercise

The June event will be staged northwest of Amidon and south of Medora; maps will be sent out to registered participants prior to June 10.  Attached is our tentative schedule.  Note that a sack lunch and a Steak Fry supper is a planned component for all exercise participants.

Our September scenario will include a role for all emergency responders to play and the June exercise will set the stage for September.  Please extend this invite to all emergency responders in your agency.  Participants should be made aware that this event will include both a search by vehicle and on foot; plan to hike a couple of miles during the day.  Dress appropriately for changing weather conditions, wear proper footwear and bring your portable radios.

Advance registration is required so we can plan our course and have an accurate meal count.  We are also asking that if any registered participants cannot attend that they contact our office so we can remove them from the meal count.

Advance registration can be emailed to Karla at kgermann@state.nd.us , by calling (701) 523-4771 or contact your county Emergency Manager by May 9.  Registration should include participant name, entity they represent and their email address (or snail mail address if email is not available.)

If you need further information contact the Bowman County Emergency Management office at (701) 523-4771.

Bowman and Slope County Emergency Management

Badlands Radio Interoperability/ICS/GPS

Training and Exercise

June 10, 2006

                   10am                              Check-in

                   10:15am – 11:30 am         GPS training

                   11:30am – 12 noon          Radio training

                   12 noon                           Sack lunch

                   12 noon – 3:30pm           Exercise

                   3:30pm – 4:30pm            Debriefing/evaluation

                   5pm                                Supper at Amidon Community Center

Karla Germann

Bowman/Slope County 9-1-1 Coordinator

Bowman County Asst. Emergency Manager 

P.O. Box 453

Bowman, ND 58623

phone (701) 523-4771

fax (701) 523-5443

kgermann@state.nd.gov