The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, in collaboration with DHS/FEMA National Exercise Division (NED), conducted Arizona’s 2018 National Mass Care Exercise series. The exercise series included a Tabletop Exercise (TTX) and a Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) designed to inform the State of Arizona’s emergency management partners of mass care capabilities from response plans, policies, and procedures.

Participants exercised mass care capabilities and functions under the Arizona State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP) in response to a catastrophic earthquake in southern California, resulting in mass migration to Arizona.

The exercise series culminated in the FSE, conducted from May 21-24, 2018 at Papago Park Military Reservation (PPMR) that engaged approximately over 2000 participants from Arizona’s whole community partners. Numerous agencies also hosted component Workshops, TTXs, Functional Exercises (FE), and FSEs from their respective agency’s venues to examine federal, state, tribal, county, local, non-governmental organization (NGO) and private-sector plans and capabilities.