| **Exercise Name** | Jonesboro Fire Department Response Functional Exercise |
| **Exercise Date** | November 12-14, 2024 |
| **Planning Date** | October 31, 2024 |
| **Hotwash Date** | November 12-14, 2024 (After Each Day) |
| **Scope** | This exercise is functional, and evaluated fire response capabilities to a fire situation in various locations at Arkansas State University. The scope was limited to response planning, responding, and on-scene staging. Participants utilized radio communications for reporting based on an Incident Radio Communications Plan (ICS 205). |
| **Focus Areas**[**\[1\]**](#_ftn1) | Response |
| **Capabilities**[**\[2\]**](#_ftn2) | - Planning - Operational Coordination - On-Scene Security, Protection, and Law Enforcement |
| **Objectives** | § Identify locations on campus on initial callouts; § Identify the best route to respond/stage at a given campus location; § Coordinate with other responding units to determine staging locations/routes; § Identify capabilities, target capabilities, and gaps. |
| **Hazard** | Various; Fire Department Response Needed |
| **Scenario** | A call for service originating from Arkansas State University’s Campus, either from notification of a fire alarm or a reported working structure fire. Injects are not cumulative, but rather are different incidents at different times to reflect various possibilities of the overall scenario |
| **Sponsor** | Arkansas State University |
| **Participating Organizations** | Office of Emergency Management (Wyatt Reed, Exercise Director & Ronnie Gilley); Jonesboro Fire Department (Ricky Howton, Lead Controller & E1/E3/E6/T1/B1 All Shifts), |
| **Point of Contact** | **Wyatt Reed,** Emergency Operations and Occupational Safety Specialist Office of Emergency Management Arkansas State University [WReed@AState.edu](mailto:wreed@astate.edu) or (870) 972-3352 |
| **Objective** | **Capability[\[3\]](#_ftn3)** | **Performed without Challenges (P)** | **Performed with Some Challenges (S)** | **Performed with Major Challenges (M)** | **Unable to be Performed (U)** |
| Identify locations on campus on initial callouts. | Planning | **X** | |||
| Operational Coordination | **X** | ||||
| Identify the best route to respond/stage at a given campus location. | Planning | **X** | |||
| Operational Coordination | **X** | ||||
| Coordinate with other responding units to determine staging locations/routes. | Planning | **X** | |||
| Operational Coordination | **X** | ||||
| Identify capabilities, target capabilities, and gaps. | Planning | **X** | |||
| Operational Coordination | **X** | ||||
| On-Scene Security, Protection and Law Enforcement | **X** |
| **Inject 1** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 4:00 |
| Engine 3 | 3:00 |
| Engine 6 | 7:00 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **4:30** |
| **Inject 2** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 5:00 |
| Engine 3 | 6:00 |
| Engine 6 | 5:00 |
| Truck 1 | 5:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **5:15** |
| **Inject 4** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 3:00 |
| Engine 3 | 3:00 |
| Engine 6 | 3:00 |
| Truck 1 | 3:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **3:00** |
| **Exercise Day Overall Times** | |
| **Source** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| From CSA1 | 4:00 |
| From CSA2 | 5:00 |
| From CSA3 | 3:40 |
| Engine 1 | 4:00 |
| Engine 3 | 4:00 |
| Engine 6 | 5:00 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Inject 1** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 4:00 |
| Engine 3 | 3:00 |
| Engine 6 | 5:00 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **4:00** |
| **Inject 2** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 3:00 |
| Engine 3 | N/A |
| Engine 6 | 4:00 |
| Truck 1 | 3:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **3:20** |
| **Inject 4** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 4:00 |
| Engine 3 | N/A |
| Engine 6 | 4:00 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **4:00** |
| **Exercise Day Overall Times** | |
| **Source** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| From CSA1 | 4:00 |
| From CSA2 | 3:45 |
| From CSA3 | 3:30 |
| Engine 1 | 3:40 |
| Engine 3 | 3:00 |
| Engine 6 | 4:20 |
| Truck 1 | 3:40 |
| **Inject 1** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 5:00 |
| Engine 3 | 2:00 |
| Engine 6 | 5:00 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **4:00** |
| **Inject 2** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 3:00 |
| Engine 3 | 6:00 |
| Engine 6 | 3:00 |
| Truck 1 | 3:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **3:45** |
| **Inject 4** | |
| **Company** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| Engine 1 | 5:00 |
| Engine 3 | 3:00 |
| Engine 6 | 8:00 |
| Truck 1 | 5:00 |
| **Average Response Time** | **5:15** |
| **Exercise Day Overall Times** | |
| **Source** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| From CSA1 | 5:00 |
| From CSA2 | 4:45 |
| From CSA3 | 2:40 |
| Engine 1 | 4:20 |
| Engine 3 | 3:40 |
| Engine 6 | 5:20 |
| Truck 1 | 4:00 |
| **Exercise Mean Times** | |
| **Source** | **Response Time (in minutes)** |
| From CSA1 | 4:20 |
| From CSA2 | 4:30 |
| From CSA3 | 4:16 |
| To Inject 1 | 4:08 |
| To Inject 2 | 4:13 |
| To Inject 4 | 4:05 |
| Overall Response | 4:09 |
| Engine 1 | 4:00 |
| Engine 3 | 3:43 |
| Engine 6 | 4:54 |
| Truck 1 | 3:54 |
| **Area for Improvement** | **Corrective Item** | **Implementation Plan** | **Primary Responsible Organization** | **Organization POC** |
| **Database Integration** | Identification of Capabilities | Work with stakeholders to identify what MIS systems and other databases are being used to determine if internal data could support the database or if the stakeholder database could support internal plans/operations. | Emergency Management (Primary) | **Emergency Management:** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley |
| Systematic Review | Create guidelines internally to review databases and MIS systems, both internally and with external stakeholders, to ensure information is accurate and systems functional to inform planning. | Emergency Management (Primary) | **Emergency** **Management** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley | |
| **Training and Decision Support** | Training Schedule | Work to create a more uniform training schedule with JFD over a variety of subjects to maintain knowledge and working relationship. | Emergency Management (Primary) Jonesboro Fire Department (Secondary) | **Emergency** **Management** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley **Jonesboro** **Fire** **Department** Division Chief Rickey Howton |
| Decision Support Resource Maintenance | Evaluate the resources currently in place for decision support to ensure they have been shared and are accurate. Create additional maintenance plans for periodic reviews to ensure they still provide accurate decision support. | Emergency Management (Primary) | **Emergency Management (Primary)** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley | |
| **Infrastructure** | Identification Markers | The Office of Emergency Management will work with Facilities Management and other university departments to evaluate options for updating markers of emergency routes and sidewalks for clearer communication. | Emergency Management (Primary) | **Emergency Management:** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley |
| Existing Infrastructure Overhaul | Work with Facilities Management and Parking Services to determine if overhauls of existing access infrastructure and designs need to be performed, such as in front of Eugene Smith or in parking areas across campus. | Emergency Management (Primary) | **Emergency Management:** Wyatt Reed or Ronnie Gilley |