Ditto from Minnesota.  Thanks for your effort Joe!

Cooperatively Yours,
Lidia Dilley Jacobson, CLCP, MBA
Director of Safety and Loss Control

Minnesota Rural Electric Association
11640 73rd Ave. N., Maple Grove, MN 55369
c:  218.639.5369  |  d:  763.424.7240  |  o:  763.424.1020
www.mrea.org

-----Original Message-----
From: sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Jon Elkins
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 9:22 AM
To: Joe McElroy <JMcElroy@meca.coop>
Cc: Biloxi Mafia <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com>
Subject: Re: Mutual Aid Exercises

We would like to see the information.

JON D. ELKINS
VP Safety Training and Compliance

Indiana Electric Cooperatives
8888 Keystone Crossing, Suite 1600
Indianapolis, IN 46240
M 765.516.0340
E jelkins@indianaec.org

> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Joe McElroy <JMcElroy@meca.coop> wrote:
>
> To All,
>
> I hope this email finds you and yours all in good health and warm.
>
> This past fall, I attended the APPA Mutual Aid exercise in Los Angeles. As you may know, Michigan cooperatives and municipals work closely with regard to safety, training and mutual aid. I was asked by NRECA to attend this conference as a representative for them.
>
> A portion of the event was a tabletop exercise of a natural disaster. In this exercise, the event was massive wildfires in multiple areas of California followed by historic flooding. It put to task the response of California municipals and how to deal with the event on multiple levels. The timing of the exercise was something else. Barely three weeks later the historic California wildfires broke out.
>
> I believe that the exercise was funded by the Department of Energy. Many state and federal agencies attended this portion of the event and offered insight/guidance.
>
> It was a well run event and quite honestly, I was surprised by the level of detail.
>
> If you all want me to, I could contact the APPA and get details of how all this came to happen.
>
> Joe McElroy
> Director of Safety
> Michigan Electric Cooperative Association Mobile (517) 331-4459 Office
> (269) 467-7576
>
>
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