Nagaland Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) in collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority conducted Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx), a state mega mock exercise on earthquake simulating 6.9 magnitude on Richter Scale across the state on October 24.
MOKOKCHUNG: Mokokchung District Disaster Management Authority (MDMA) conducted a mock drill on earthquake disaster. The disaster scenario of landslide, fire incident and collapse structure were simulated at five different locations in the town: Longkumer Kilem, Lenjem Hospital, Straightway Hr. Sec. School, DC office building and landslide on the way to DC office.
The designated staging area was put up at Imkongmeren Sports Complex where emergency medical camp was set up to provide medical aid to the injured victims transported from the site of the incidents, deployment of machineries and personnel in response to incident report by setting up of Incidence Response Teams (IRT) at the staging area.
After all the mock drill exercise were completed at staging area, the incident commander demobilized the IRT followed by remarks from the chief observer where he shared some observations of the exercise. Deputy Commissioner of Mokokchung, Thsuvisie Phoji in his concluding remarks mentioned that the mock drill was successful due to active participation of all the designated officials, personnel, departments and voluntaries from various NGOs and schools. He also added the overall response was good but stated that they need to be more practical while carrying out the assigned responsibilities.
WOKHA: Along with the rest of the state, Wokha district also conducted mock drill/exercise on earthquake at five locations/sites namely, LMS school, PHED office, Police Point, Mhondamo Memorial Nursing Home and APMC.
During the mock drill/exercise, disaster incidents such as building collapsed, fire, structure damage, road cut-off and partial building collapse, rescue operation on students trapped inside debris, and evacuation of injured were displayed during the mock exercise.
Later after the mock exercise, Deputy Commissioner & chairman DDMA Wokha, Vineet Kumar, congratulated all team members and volunteers for their active participation and successfully completing the mock exercise. During the debriefing session, observers also shared their findings where an improvement has to be made in certain areas of operation.
SP Wokha Aotula T Imchen also congratulated all concerned involved for their commendable service rendered and making the exercise a successful one. Personnel from SDRF, volunteers from Bharat Scout & Guides, Police and WDDMA members took part in the mock drill/exercise.
NOKLAK: Nagaland Emergency Prepardness Exercise (NEPEx), a statewide mega mock exercise on earthquake was organised by the Noklak District Disaster Management Authority in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority at Noklak town.
During the mock exercise, following sites were selected for mock drill: KGBV Hostel, Bazaar Noklak Town, District Hospital, Kiamngan (Kiamong Landslide) and Government High School, Noklak village.
SDO (Civil) Noklak, Vikhoto Richa in his briefing at staging area thanked all the stakeholders and volunteers for the successful conduct of the mock exercise.
PEREN: A mega mock drill exercise was conducted at Peren Town which was supervised by DDMA Peren simulating an earthquake with a magnitude 6.9 on the Ritcher scale triggering massive landslide, fire and building. The exercise was carried out to test the capabilities of the district in responds to any disaster in the district.
The staging area was set up at Peren Town local ground while ADC office Peren, Peren Government Higher Secondary School, District Hospital, marketing sheds and landslide below Police Reserve were marked as the incident sites. A scenario of four dead and 26 injured were reported from various incidents, out of 26, two were seriously injured and were given medical attention by the medical unit.
TSEMINYU: A mock drill was conducted at Tseminyu with simulating an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 and massive landslide in Tseminyu Town triggered by the earthquake damaging a huge number of houses and effecting hundreds of families.
KIPHIRE: The mock drill began at Kiphire with sounding of the siren from public ground, DC Office, Agriculture Office and Daily Market at 9:03 AM. Responsible Officer (RO) briefed the Incident Response Team (IRT) members, after which the incident commander and stake holders rushed to the staging area along with the other IRTs stationed at DEOC with available resources at the four selected locations and one incident site.
The simulating scenario in the incidents included collapse structure search, rescue and road clearance. Rescue personnel and volunteers during the exercise were Fire Brigade team, Police department, traffic and wireless.
In the briefing session, ADC Kiphire, Longdiba L Sangtam, exhorted the participants that preparations in time of disaster can save many lives and learn the short coming through the mock drill. He also thanked all the departments for actively participating in their assigned responsibilities.
LONGLENG: District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Longleng in collaboration with Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority and National Disaster Management Authority, conducted multi-state level mock exercise on earthquake disaster.
The following locations for mock drill-NEPEx were selected: DEOC-Rostrum, Hukpang, PWD office, Bautung Higher Secondary School and Local Ground. The mock drill was conducted as part of routine exercise for preparedness and awareness when actual disaster strikes.
The mock drill exercise was conducted by active participation of government departments and agencies playing their respective roles and responsibilities as assigned to them in the Incident Response System (IRS), guidelines and structure issued by the NSDMA.
The rescue team was led by DEF, Fire & Emergency Services, Aapda Mitra volunteers and Medical Team while the incident commanders, operation section, planning section and logistic section communicated each other to take stock of the situation.
After the mock drill exercise, review meeting comprised of incidents commanders was held at public playground Longleng under the chairmanship of responsible officer, Deputy Commissioner Longleng W. Manpai Phom. The commandant 12th NAP (IR) battalion, Chingtok and vice principal Yingli College were the observers of the mock drill exercise.
TUENSANG: Mock drills exercise on earthquake was conducted at Parade Ground Tuensang Town. The Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx) incident sites were at DC’s office old building, GHSS and daily market Officer Colony.
The staging area was the Parade Ground Tuensang, with make shift hospital, morgue and relief camp through active participant from District Administration Tuensang, SDRF, Fire and Emergency Services, DEF Tuensang, CMO Tuensang, DPRO Tuensang and NCC of GHSS Tuensang.
During the debriefing session, Deputy Commissioner Tuensang, Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa advised the team to cooperate and coordinate between the stakeholders for timely evacuation and rescue of the casualties at the time of disaster.
Commandant VG and Observer, Yanchu Chang also stated that comparing to last year, this year mock drills have improvement in communication and timely executing of plan at the time of disaster.
PHEK: Phek conducted the NEPEx mock drill at Phek in four locations such as GHSS, DC office, District Hospital and KK Shopping Mall, Phek. The mock drill exercise was conducted under the District Level Incident Response System (IRS) Structure, with Incident Commander led by DC Phek, Operational Section led by District Commandant HG & CD & SDRF, Planning Section led by DPO, Logistic Section led by Additional SP.
30 personnel from SDRF Phek actively performed at the mock trial exercised. 15 Aapda Mitra volunteers from Phek Town were used during mock trial, where five vehicles for rescue and strike team were utilized.
Search and rescue team rushed to the spot and rescued two students trapped inside the debris, and also retrieved three dead bodies, two seriously injured and four with minor injuries from different levels of the building.
CHUMOUKEDIMA: A mock drill was conducted in Chumoukedima district involving four key locations: North Town Higher Secondary School, D.C. Office Complex, Norman Putsure College, and Vishal Market Complex.
Rescue teams responded to the simulated incidents, rescuing 14 people with both minor and critical injuries. Unfortunately, six fatalities were recorded as part of the mock scenario. The drill aimed to test the district’s preparedness and response capabilities in the event of a major earthquake, with the teams working efficiently to manage the disaster simulation.
NIULAND: Niuland district organised a mega mock exercise assuming the scenario of an earthquake of 6.9 magnitude striking Niuland Town at 9:00 AM resulting in massive building collapses damaging 500 houses, road blockade and damage of live wires.
About 1000 people have been affected by building collapse, main electric transmission line from Dimapur to Niuland has been damaged and the whole district was black out, drinking water supply and pipeline were also damaged. While three people were killed and 15 were injured and 40 people missing expected to be trapped under debris.
Three incident sites affected seriously have been reported at St Joseph School, CHC Niuland and DC’s residence. Immediately after the earthquake siren was alerted, incident response team reported to DEOC after which Deputy Commissioner & RO activated the IRS.
Immediate response to the situation was done by activation of onsite/off-site emergency response plan, evacuation plan, restoration of electricity, water supply and communication system, setting up of relief camps at public ground, where temporary hospital medical aid, media, SDRF, NDRF, planning section, logistic section were set up at public ground.
The drill concluded with the debriefing from DC Niuland Sara S Jamir. The DC acknowledged all the officers and personnel involved in the smooth and effective conduct of NEPEx in the district.
MON: District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Mon conducted a mega mock exercise on earthquake disaster with Deputy Commissioner Mon, Ajit Kumar Verma, as the responsible officer and ADC Hq. Mon, Pakon Phom as the incident commander.
The scenario began at Mon town with the siren where four vulnerable sites were identified: Government Higher Secondary School, Mon Town ‘D’, PWD (R&B) Office Building, NST Junction, Shantham Ward and District Hospital. Staging area was located at Local Ground.
Incident Command Post, Operation Section, Planning Section and Logistic Section were located at Local Ground while relief camp was located at Badminton Stadium. On receiving the report, the SDRF team rushed to vulnerable sites and retrieved two dead bodies, three seriously injured and three with minor injuries at PWD (R&B) office building severely damaged and caught fire.
Three dead bodies retrieved, four seriously injured and three minor injuries at GHSS, Mon Town ‘C’ building. Two students trapped inside the debris and building were totally damaged where the rest of the building were partially damaged. Retrieved two dead bodies, three seriously injured and three minor injuries at NST Junction Shantam ward.
Retrieved two dead bodies, three seriously injured and two minor injuries at District Hospital. There was live streaming of the landslide site at NST junction, Shantham Ward Mon Town.
The mock exercise concluded with the briefing from Operation Section Chief, Lichemse Sangtam, District Commandant HG &CD & SDRF; Planning Section Chief, Rongsenmenla, SDO (C) Hq. and Logistic Section Chief, llam Lungalung, Addl. SP.
The designated observers of four vulnerable sites, briefed a note of the rescue operation undertaken during the mock drill and identify the gap which need to be covered during the next exercise to better prepare and ready for any eventualities.
ZUNHEBOTO: Zunheboto conducted the Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx), a state wide mega mock drill on earthquake disaster at Zunheboto. Five incident sites were identified with Step by Step School staging an evacuation and rescue drill, Alahuto Colony/landslide rescue, DEO/building collapse and rescue and District Hospital/serious patient treatment.
Some other important ZDDMA sites were, District Emergency Operation Centre (DEOC) at DC’s chamber and the remaining, staging area, Incident Command Post, Relief Camp, Medical Unit and LSC/OSC/PSC were all organized at local ground Zunheboto.
During the debriefing programme, Chief Observer of the day emphasized on the dire need to have at least four/five SAT Phones in the district in order to be more mobile, accessible in terms of connectivity. He commended the efforts of all the concerned for the success of the mega mock drill.
Deputy Commissioner and chairman DDMA Zunheboto, Rahul Bhanudas Mali while sharing his remarks called the mock drill a grand success.
SHAMATOR: Shamator District Disaster Management Authority conducted Nagaland Emergency Preparedness Exercise (NEPEx) mock drill at Government Higher Secondary School Shamator, Market Place (upper police point-high rise) and Community Health Center (CHC) Shamator. The exercise concluded at local ground Shamator.