Alphabet Soup
FEMA
What is the Federeal Emergency Management Agency?
A discussion-based exercise format that brings stakeholders into a room to talk through a simulated emergency.
What is a tabletop exercise?
The specific FAA regulatory part that governs small unmanned aircraft systems.
What is Part 107?
This designated location is established at large events to assist families who become separated.
What is a reunification area?
A sudden, violent, highly localized flood that typically occurs within a few hours of intense rainfall.
What is a flash flood?
NIMS
What is the National Incident Management System?
The term for a realistic, escalating complication or update introduced to the players during an exercise.
What is an inject?
This federal law, passed in 1988, dictates the entire process for how a Presidential disaster declaration is triggered.
What is the Stafford Act?
The physical location where personnel and equipment are temporarily kept while waiting for an immediate tactical assignment.
What is the Staging Area?
VIDEO CLUE
What is the eye?
CERT
What is Community Emergency Response Team?
The formal, immediate debriefing session held after an exercise to gather feedback and identify gaps.
What is a hot wash?
Under standard FAA rules, this is the maximum legal altitude a drone can be flown.
What is 400 feet?
A centralized, temporary local facility where the public goes to pick up life-sustaining commodities like bottled water, MREs, and tarps following a disaster.
What is a Point of Distribution (POD)?
This dangerous frozen precipitation forms when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere before falling to the ground.
What is hale?
NWS
What is the National Weather Service?
The highest level of exercise, testing multiple agencies and jurisdictions in real-time with actual deployment of "boots on the ground" and moving equipment.
What is a Full-Scale Exercise (FSE)?
Under New Jersey State Police OEM directives, a municipal Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) must be fully reviewed, updated, and officially recertified by the state every this many years.
What is two years?
A multi-agency coordination center established at the state level to gather intelligence, analyze data, and share terrorism threat information.
What is a fusion center?
The National Weather Service issues this alert when conditions are favorable for the development of severe weather, but it has not yet formed.
What is a watch?
MACS
What is Multiagency Coordination System?
The official document produced after an exercise that captures what went right, what went wrong, and assigns specific corrective actions to staff members.
What is the After-Action Report / Improvement Plan (AAR/IP)?
This directive establishes core baseline and advanced training requirements for Emergency Management personnel in New Jersey.
What is NJOEM Directive-1?
In a large-scale, multi-day incident, this physical location is established to provide food, water, sleeping areas, and sanitary services to responders.
What is the Base (or Incident Base/Camp)?
The scale used by the National Weather Service to categorize the strength of tornadoes based on estimated wind speeds and related damage.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?