Thanks Joe.
Please push the information our way.

Know safety - No pain
No safety-Know pain

John Dvorak  C.L.C.P.
Safety Director
Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives
515-418-7691
jdvorak@iowarec.org

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From: sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Joe McElroy
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 8:13 PM
To: Biloxi Mafia <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com>
Subject: Mutual Aid Exercises

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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