Sandow Lake Training Center Complex was the setting for the Milam Countywide Tabletop Exercise (TTX) held Friday, September 29. Milano Fire Chief Kain Dodd designed and facilitated the scenario. Seventy-seven participants included county officials, mayors, justices of the peace, city managers, police, volunteer fire departments and others from all over Milam County. A Tabletop Exercise provides local, county officials, first responders and other agencies in mitigating a disaster scenario. The purpose of a TTX is to facilitate a learning environment where response agencies can come together, face to face, to understand and talk through an integrated response to a specific emergency situation. During TTX, emergency facilities are not activated, and emergency response forces are not deployed. TTX provide an ideal environment for learning, discussing and identifying issues that may not be as obvious when players are physically separated as they are during drills and other exercises. Tabletop exercises provide an excellent opportunity to compare what participants actually expect to do and how they plan to do it with what is written in the local emergency plan, highlighting changes that may need to be made in the plan. “Many disasters; man-made and/or natural are happening daily around the world. It’s vital that we work together to ensure our community’s safety,” said Milam County Judge Bill Whitmire.
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