Chatham County, Ga., Emergency Management Agency Seeks 200 ‘Crisis Actors’ for Evacuation Drill

Local emergency managers are looking for about 200 volunteers to be “crisis actors” and help make more realistic an evacuation drill in March.

Chatham Emergency Management Agency will conduct a full-scale exercise March 26 at the Coastal Georgia Center and the Savannah Civic Center. This exercise will test the Evacuation Assembly Area plan for the county. The plan is implemented when the public needs transportation assistance during a county evacuation order, as happened with Hurricanes Irma and Matthew. The last time the exercise was conducted was 2015.

Volunteers should be willing to play the role of actors, simulating the general population. The volunteers will be transported from the Coastal Georgia Center to the Civic Center, where they will be “screened and processed” before being returned to the Coastal Georgia Center. They will be transported to and from multiple times throughout the exercise, but will have opportunities to rest. Food will be provided at both sites.

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