Golden Guardian 2008
Golden Guardian 2008 Full-Scale Exercize
The Golden Guardian Statewide Exercise Series is the nation's largest state-sponsored emergency preparedness exercise endeavor. Golden Guardian is an ongoing annual event, comprised of a series of seminars, discussion based tabletop exercise and drills, culminating in a full scale exercise designed to test the emergency capabilities of the State of California to deter, prevent, respond and recover from a potential terrorist attack or catastrophic natural disaster.
Begun in 2004 as a federal/state and local exercise which activated State emergency resources, the Golden Guardian Exercise Series is mandated and funded under federal Department of Homeland Security guidelines requiring exercise and subsequent evaluation and improvement activities. Gov. Schwarzenegger and his senior staff have participated in each Golden Guardian exercise.
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The Great Southern California ShakeOut
Golden Guardian 2008 coincides with emergency preparedness drill on Nov. 13, the The Great Southern California ShakeOut, which uses the same scenario.
The goal of ShakeOut is to identify the physical, social and economic consequences of a major earthquake in southern California and in so doing, and provide information on what individuals and groups can do now—before an earthquake—to avoid catastrophic impact after an earthquake occurs. The ShakeOut is working to identify the physical damages (casualties and losses) caused by the earthquake and the impact of those damages on the region’s social and economic systems.