Summary

On April 18, 2006, the City of Boulder and Boulder County performed a full-scale exercise called the “Big Thompson Flood on Boulder Creek.” An After Action Report (AAR) on the exercise provided the following insights relating to areas that needed improvement:

• There were shortcomings in the internal flow of information within the EOC, specifically with requesting resources between the various Emergency Support Functions (ESFs).
• Everyone in the EOC must gain a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each ESF, including their own.
• Each ESF binder needs to be updated by the individual ESF members before an actual incident to become an effective tool.
• There was internal confusion regarding the paging communication system.

Read the full After Action Report & Improvement Plan Exercises