Some emergencies are so rare that they’re easy to overlook during regular training cycles, until they happen. Engine room ...

The Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are gearing up for the 2025 Pacific alert tabletop exercise that focuses on helping ...

Firefighters learn best by doing, which makes practical, hands-on exercises invaluable. A company officer should focus on ...

Preparing for and responding to disasters is often a collaborative effort where you can learn from past successes and ...

The Director, who was represented by the General Manager, SAR, NAMA, Sunday Iwalaiye streamlined the Emergency Tabletop Exercise into two sessions: “Search and Rescue Units and Responsibilities ...

INDOPACOM brings AI to wargaming exercise After nearly half a year of focusing on new tech, commanders get to pit decision-making tools against operational plans.

However, tabletop exercises build fluency and “are invaluable for rehearsing and refining responses to various scenarios,” an article in Forbes points out. “These exercises offer a safe environment ...

On May 16, the Delaware County Local Emergency Planning Committee held a tabletop simulation of a tornado moving through the county in order to find best practices to respond to a real emergency. Alex ...

The U.S. Ran Its First Space Weather Preparedness Drill—Here’s How It Went Ironically, the exercise last May was interrupted by a real scenario, when Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm ...

These exercises are part of HCRI’s NSF project Household response to wildfire – integrating behavioral science and evacuation modeling to improve community wildfire resilience. Image 2: Example ...

Scoring system. Tabletop exercises sometimes include a scoring system, which could induce more active participation in the game but also distort behavior. Similarly, scoring metrics might not be ...