Office of Emergency Management

Current and Previous Exercises

2008 Exercises

  • January 28, 2008 - Nashville International Airport Tabletop
  • February 19 & 20, 2008 - WebEOC Training and Tabletop
  • April 9, 2008 - TN Dept of Health Pandemic Influenza exercise
  • April 23, 2008 - Wolf Creek Dam Tabletop
  • April 2008 - ? - Metro Departmental No-Notice Drills

2000-2006 Exercises

November 2006
Homeland Security District 5 CBRNE Tabletop

October 2006
Kindred Hospital Exercise
Cloverbottom Tabletop

September 2006
Military Field Exercises – Various simulated activities with a branch of the military in Davidson county.
Cloverbottom Tabletop – Tabletop to examine their emergency plans and procedures.
Nashville International Airport Tabletop – Tabletop with various agencies to examine the roles and procedures associated with a public health event.

August 2006
Middle TN Agro-Terrorism Tabletop – This was a tabletop to examine the multiple roles and responsibilities across all levels of government in regards to a simulated Agro-Terrorism event.

June 2006
Nashville International Airport Full Scale Exercise – This was a full scale field exercise that involved multiple response agencies that responded to a mock airplane emergency. There were volunteers acting as victims, with some of them going to a local hospital.

May 2006
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) Field Exercise – This was a field exercise to examine the multi-agency plans and response to the CCA facility.

April 2006
Emergency Preparedness Challenge - A limited full-scale field exercise for first responders at every level of government in Homeland Security District 5 - Davidson, Williamson, Wilson, and Sumner counties. For more information, visit site.

March 2006
TN Homeland Security Exercise Program Conference – This conference brought together a wide range of agencies throughout the state to discuss and share exercise programs and ways to improve.

February 2006
Homeland Security District 5 Law Enforcement Tabletop – This exercise gave participants an opportunity to evaluate current concepts, plans, and capabilities for the prevention and/or to mitigation of the effects of a terrorist event in Tennessee’s Homeland Security District 5. The exercise focused on the coordination and critical decisions of key local law enforcement agencies as they integrated the assets of the counties within the district, as well as those of the Federal and State governments.

March 2005
Metro EOC Community Hotline - A functional exercise without notice and activation of Metro Water Services personnel to respond and staff the EOC community hotline. Approximately 15 MWS personnel participated to test their procedures. Live calls were made and processed.

February 2005
Are You Ready for the Challenge Conference - An emergency preparedness conference that attracted more than 600 first responders, health and hospital representatives and community leaders across the four counties of Homeland Security District 5.

September 2003
Transportation Incident - A multi-site and multi-incident tabletop exercise developed by and in conjunction with the U.S. and Tennessee Departments of Transportation. Several Metro agencies, including Metro Police, Metro Public Works and OEM participated in the exercise.

April 2003
Metropolitan Nashville International Airport - A full-scale exercise involving the activation of the Airport Command Center and Unified Command in response to a plane crash on airport property. The scenario involved mass casualty extrication, rescue, treatment and triage, and firefighting suppression and response to jet fuel from the plane crash. Multiple Metro agencies participated in support of the airport’s Department of Public Safety.

October 2002
Two Rivers Middle School - a full-scale school security exercise involving 200 participants, injured victims and a hostage situation. The exercise involved the full activation of the Metro Schools Crisis Response Team.

September 2000
Nashville Coliseum - A full-scale weapons of mass destruction chemical exercise involving more than 200 health and public safety workers, medical staffs and about 300 decontaminated victims. The focus of the scenario was sarin nerve agent dispersed into a crowd at a football game to test and evaluate the response of Metro Hazmat, SWAT, Metro Bomb Squad, decontamination units, mutual aid, Unified Command, EMS and hospitals’ mass casualty plans, and other emergency functions.