Rolling Thunder exercise proves a storming success

摘要

The scenario depicted by Rolling Thunder was that Devon had experienced an intense period of unprecedented weather, causing a large number of isolated incidents to occur. The local resources were stretched and a major incident was declared. The incidents included urban search and rescue (USAR), high volume pump, enhanced logistics support and mass decontamination, detection identification and monitoring teams. A strategic holding area was set up at Exeter Services to manage the resources. Rolling Thunder was attended by 20 fire and rescue services' National Resilience teams along with police disaster victim identification teams from all over the UK, plus HART, the Royal Air Force and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service local crews.