The Anderson Observer

Anderson County Emergency Services, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, SC Department of Education, State & Local EMA, Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS will join all five Anderson County School Districts in a Senior Officials Table Top Exercise “Operation School Bell”Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. at the Civic Center of Anderson.

Operation School Bell is a Tabletop Exercise designed as a K-12 initiative with objectives:

To enhance coordination, collaboration and capacity building between school officials, local first responders and community emergency operations
To develop, review and/or test multiple Emergency Operating Plans for a local response to a School Threat of Violence including the overarching prevention, protection, response, recovery and mitigation of those threats
To develop the foundation for an overarching comprehensive emergency operation plan for school-based incidents while expanding core capabilities based on the ‘whole of community’ concept of resilience

This exercise is an opportunity to unite as a community and solidify mitigation, response and recovery practices. For more information: Taylor Jones, Deputy Chief, Anderson County Emergency Services tjones@andersoncountysc.org