Please forward to all police, fire, EMS, and public safety dispatch agencies and personnel in Shelby County and the surrounding area.  All agencies be aware in case you receive calls.

Dayton MMRS with Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA) and others are conducting a series of mass casualty incident exercises called “Dawn of a New Day.”  One of these full-scale exercises will be held this Saturday, June 8th at 0830 Hours.  The Sidney-Shelby County Health Department in Sidney will be the simulated incident scene, and Wilson Hospital along with numerous police, fire, and EMS agencies will be involved.  The exercise will conclude before 1200 Hours.

The scenario is an active shooter with an IED as part of a Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack.  There will be sounds of gunfire and a muffled explosion at the incident scene (the Health Department).  There will be numerous simulated and moulaged (i.e., with injury makeup) victims at the Health Department and at the hospital.

We are taking numerous steps to ensure that everyone knows of the exercise and to prevent it being confused with a real world event. 

• Wilson Health, in conjunction with other agencies,  has put out a joint press release. 
• Videos describing the exercise have been made available to hospital employees and many others. 
• Wilson Health and the Health Department are posting signage about the exercise, both outside and inside. 
• We’ve sent out a “Player Guide” (attached).
• The hospital will make multiple overhead announcements during the exercise. 
• Each victim-actor will wear a lanyard with multiple envelopes.  Each envelope will be marked as “Victim-Actor” along with other information.  Other role-players (press, family) will have a badge on a lanyard (roughly 3” x 5”) stating that they are Actors (Press-Actor/Family Actor).
• The “perpetrator” will wear a sign saying Exercise ACTOR (Perpetrator)
• In addition to insisting that all phone, radio, and written communications include, “This is an exercise message,” we are also encouraging as often as practical, that the players say out loud “This is an exercise message” especially while they’re in the hospital. 

We wanted all of you to be aware.  Should you have questions or concerns, please contact me. 

David N. Gerstner

                           MMRS/RMRS/EP Coordinator

                           Department of Fire  I  City of Dayton

                           300 N. Main St.  I  Dayton, Ohio 45402

       Office 937.333.4551  I  Fax 937.333.4561  I  www.daytonohio.gov

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       Cell  937.776.4410 
david.gerstner@daytonohio.gov I  http://DaytonMMRS.org