Chief williams, excuse me. Could you start at the beginning for those who may be watching and dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an existing radiation source and use an explosive to spread the existing radiation. It does not create Nuclear Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation
Emergency. I was very impressed by their participation, taking the drill serious as well as the other agencies that assisted us in that drill. We had the agency chief williams, excuse me. Could you start at the beginning for those who may be watching and dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an ex
And dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an existing radiation source and use an explosive to spread the existing radiation. It does not create Nuclear Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that woul
Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that would, that Law Enforcement had word that a terrorist organization had stolen radiological material, they practiced methods to intradict that stolen material prior to a dirty bomb going off. So they practiced that throughout the bay area in the days leading up to it. Our portion as the Fire Department is the right of boom, after the explosion has happened. The Fire Services role in that. So we did a scenario over by station 4 where a car bomb, a dirty bomb went off. We responded to it and we practiced doing an m. C. I. , a mass casualty incident, 50 patients, hot zone, detect radiation present, respond to it and rescue the people out, triage them, and transport, the hospitals also did participate in the drill. Their portion was to receive contaminated patients and practice decontamination prior to going to the emergency room. So deal with that, m.
Security and terrorism. She talked of the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Earlier this week about how the department is adapting as the debts against the nation change. Her remarks are almost one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to Hudson Institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged Us International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his august 24 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we mu