>> My name is David Boucher.
I'm the Operations and Training Officer
for Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency and I have a dual role.
I have the operation side and then the training side.
The operation side I maintain the Emergency Operation Center which is co-located
with the 911 center in Manheim and then on the training side I make sure
that the emergency management coordinators that emergency operation staff
and the emergency agency staff are all trained and that's done through training seminars,
workshops, table tops and exercises.
Hazmat incidents, large scale structure fires that kind of thing we do deal with a lot
of weather events so we might have some projected time to prepare for that event
but some of the spontaneous calls might be hazardous materials and something like that.
Well, day-to-day without an emergency it's typically setting up, in my role it's setting up
and conducting training and exercises so a lot of preparation goes into training and exercises.
So a ten minute exercise or drill might take a few weeks to get together with all
of the different agencies that are involved.
We do several different types of drills.
There are five main types of drills and depending on the scale and scope of the exercise
or training it really can take a few hours to a year.
So we have an exercise working group with the different counties in our region
and we prepare exercises that we're going to do jointly and within our own counties
so there's a lot of preparation in getting those exercises together.