�2025 COASTSIDE GREAT SHAKEOUT

Planning Meeting for Neighborhood Leads

7/31/2025

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COASTSIDE CERT WELCOMES YOU!

PLANNING FOR THE

2025 Coastside Great ShakeOut

Saturday, September 27, 2025

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Exercise: 10:00 to Noon in Neighborhoods

Post Exercise Activities: Noon to ???

Pre-Exercise Webinar: September 24th, 2025

6:30 pm to 8 pm for all Coastside Residents

�EXERCISE LOCATIONS �

Coastside CERT neighborhoods

CEOC - 537 Kelly HMB

MRC Field Hospital : TBD

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• Incident Commander will be at the CEOC
• Agency Heads will be in CEOC
• Neighborhood Incident Commanders will be in each neighborhood.
• Ham operators will be in each neighborhood and in the CEOC

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CERT Neighborhoods

• Overall goal: Practice convening at a rally point, setting up a NCP, filling positions, creating field teams, and assessing (or counting) homes in the neighborhood. 
• Information submitted to the NIC and ultimately to the overall Incident Commander will be totals for damage (light, moderate, heavy), and/or casualty counts.
• There may be other radio traffic if warranted by damage cards/injects.  
• There will be 3 Tiers of complexity/engagement which will be chosen by each active CERT Neighborhood and known in advance by Incident Command & ARES. 
• All participating neighborhoods can include an element of engagement for their neighbors (say donuts before the Exercise or a pizza party after).    

YOU GET TO CHOOSE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD’s TIER ��3 LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY TO SUIT EACH NEIGHBORHOOD

TIER 1

Least Complex: Primarily Engagement 

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Setup up Canopies at your neighborhood rally point and interact with your neighbors.   If you want to set up a Neighborhood Command Post and describe it to your neighbors, do so.   Using a damage assessment form, list the homes of neighbors who attend your event.   Their homes will have no damage.   All other homes in your neighborhood/zone or block will have moderate to heavy damage.   If you have a ham in your neighborhood you can radio in your counts.  If you do not have a ham, you can phone in your counts to a number we will provide.

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TIER 2

Typical Complexity:

Windshield Damage Assessment  

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Set up your Neighborhood Command Post, fill roles and deploy field teams to perform a Windshield Damage Assessment of the whole neighborhood (or Zone or Block).  You will transmit final damage totals to the Incident Commander via the ham network (W-T relay or phone as back-up).  You may have other radio traffic depending on injects or damage scenarios.

TIER 3

Higher Complexity: Light S&R and NCCP

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Set up NCP and perform Windshield Damage Assessment of smaller designated area of neighborhood.  Based on scenarios in damage cards, redeploy field teams to review a set number of casualty (cards).  Some will stay in-place and some may need transport. Set-up a Neighborhood Casualty Collection Point at your NCP and triage the “casualties” and react to injects from Incident Commander.  You will transmit damage and casualty counts via the ham network. 

AGENCIES/GROUPS PARTICIPATING:  

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CFPD, Coastside CERT, HMB ARES, MRC, DART and possibly the City of Half Moon Bay and County Sheriff

LET’S HEAR FROM�OTHER PARTICIPATING GROUPS/AGENCIES:

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HMB ARES

MRC

OTHERS?

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MEASURES OF SUCCESS

INCIDENT COMMAND & AGENCIES / CEOC

• Correct documentation is used.
• Needed agencies are present and participate (provide injects, react to priority requests, etc.).
• Communication from Neighborhood to IC / DOC all work and are of appropriate nature.
• Communication not for Fire Command were properly diverted.
• Injects are acknowledged and addressed -- if possible to do so -- by neighborhood or agency.

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FIRE COMMAND / DOC - Communication to/from CEOC works and is of appropriate nature.

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NEIGHBORHOODS

• Operations are calm and safe.
• Correct documentation is used.
• Communication to/from Neighborhood to IC are received and are of appropriate nature.
• Counts are relayed when requested and inject traffic is correct and messages are succinct.
• Injects are acknowledged and addressed -- if possible to do so -- by neighborhood forces.

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NEXT STEPS

• Discuss your neighborhood’s participation level
• Coastside CERT will send a participation sign-up form to all Neighborhood Leads so you can let us know what Tier you have chosen, and other relevant info.
• Save the Date Template has been shared.
• Coming soon: templates for damage cards/casualty cards, pre-filled 213 with acceptable traffic and much more.

AIDS ARE ON THEIR WAY

EXAMPLE: TIER 3 REPORTING FORM

TIER 3 : PREFILLED 213

QUESTIONS?

• If not participating – can we shadow another neighborhood?
• Can we make our own Damage or Casualty scenarios?
• Can we have a Zoom a few weeks before the 27^th, just in case there are further questions/clarifications we need?
• Your questions:

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THANK YOU!!!

Questions?

Contact Jenny Goshorn at

fcprepared@gmail.com

650-346-4926