Pima County Multi-Agency SERF

Significant Event Readiness Forum (SERF)

Desert Diamond Casino

7350 S. Nogales Highway, Tucson, Arizona 85756

JUNE 12, 2024

The program starts at 8am and ends at 3:30pm

Breakfast will be from 7:00AM to 8:00AM   |   Lunch will be served.

The purpose of the Significant Event Readiness Forum (SERF) is to provide an environment for exploring gaps and opportunities along the disaster response continuum. The SERF is not a disaster preparedness exercise, but instead is a facilitated discussion to foster information sharing.

Determine:
  1. How public information and warning will be activated and provided (tribal/municipal public and business alerts, media management, and Joint Information Coordination).
  2. How operational coordination will be activated and provided (Unified Command, Emergency Operations Center linkages, Multi-Agency Coordination Center activation and processes, radio communications [including frequencies], access and perimeter control, and identify verification).
  3. How mass search and rescue operations will be activated and provided.
  4. How public health, healthcare, and EMS services will be activated and provided (alarm room notification of hospitals, surge, decompression, and public health issues).
  5. How mass care services will be activated and provided (Hospital Reception Centers, the Emergency Call Center, Family Reunification Center(s), School Reunification, patient/student tracking, victim transport, mental health support, and shelters).
  6. How infrastructure systems (structural and roadway [National Transportation Safety Board, the office of the fire marshal, building inspector(s), and more]) and environmental quality will be assessed.
  7. How critical transportation will be assessed and managed (airlines, rails, and other mass transit).
  8. How fatality management will be activated and provided.
  9. How forensic analysis and attribution of terrorist acts will be conducted (including investigation leadership and linkages among responding organizations).
  10. How recovery will occur (claims, contracting, environmental, and other).
  11. The cascading factors caused by the collision.
Target Audience
  • Arizona State Associations and Organizations
  • City and County Officials Communications
  • Emergency Management
  • EMS
  • Fire
  • Hospitals
  • Law Enforcement
  • Media
  • National Disaster Medical System
  • National Transportation Safety Board
  • Prisons/Corrections
  • Private Industry
  • Public Health
  • Public Transit
  • Railroads
  • Schools/Districts
  • State and Federal Agencies
  • Tucson International Airport
  • Tribal
  • Utilities

Pima County Multi-Agency SERF Scenario

First Discussion:

While on approach from maneuvers, one C-130 and one commercial regional jet (CRJ-100) collide in Tucson – by the Tucson International Airport – in the area of Campbell and Valencia. There are no survivors from the C-130 (five military officers killed), but the commercial jet is able to land (30 injured survivors out of 60 passengers and crew; the other 30 are deceased).

The collision occurs over Sunnyside Unified High School while classes are in session and a park adjacent to the school. Fifty students, teachers, volunteers, or others are injured. A wing of the C-130 falls off the aircraft and lands at the school.

Second Discussion:

While on approach from maneuvers, one C-130 and one commercial regional jet (CRJ-100) collide in Tucson – by the Tucson International Airport – in the area of Wilmot and I-10. There are no survivors from the C-130 (five military officers killed), but the commercial jet is able to land (30 injured survivors out of 60 passengers and crew; the other 30 are deceased).

The collision occurs over the state and federal prisons. A wing of the C-130 falls off the aircraft and lands at both prisons. Fifty inmates and staff are injured.