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ANIMAL ESCAPE TABLETOP DRILL Your institution<br>
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ANIMAL ESCAPE DRILL What is an Animal Escape Drill?
What does it mean to you?
What are you supposed to do?
What it means to other staff?<br>
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What are doing here today? Better understanding of Incident Command
Begin to Know/understand everyone’s Role
Familiarize ourselves with what may happen – Basic Understanding
We cannot predict every situation<br>
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Animal Escape Animal Emergencies that involve highly dangerous or highly mobile animals (elephant, jaguar, ostrich, etc.) may differ from animal emergencies with non-dangerous animals (birds, reptiles, some Hoofstock).
An Animal Escape affects the entire zoo.
During an Animal Escape, all staff should be on “stand by”.
Radios should be monitored so that all staff are aware if the Incident Commander needs assistance from specific staff.<br>
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Animal Escape Radio silence should be observed during an Animal Escape.
If the Zoo is closed – all gates should be secured, and employees and guests should seek shelter inside a building immediately (unless otherwise directed).
In the event that an Animal Escape, where the animal is contained within a holding or exhibit area, the Incident Commander may decide to close the exhibit area only and leave the zoo open.<br>
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ANIMAL ESCAPE FOCUS AND GOALS OF THIS TABLETOP DRILL
Exposure and Initial Preparation
Better understanding of Incident Command
Better understanding of all “Moving Parts”
This is a “Learning Experience”, no wrong answers
Two Full Scale Drills a Year
AZA Accreditation<br>
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ANIMAL ESCAPE DRILL What is your primary responsibility?
ANIMAL PROGRAMS
SECURITY
FACILITIES
GUEST SERVICES
FOOD SERVICES
HORTICULTURE
ADMINISTRATION<br>
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SECURING GUEST What steps to Take?
Direct guest to secure locations
What do you say?
“We have an emergency situation, as a precaution please immediately move to the [nearest secure building]”
“I don’t have all the information, except that we are taking precautions for everyone’s safety”
What if a guest doesn’t cooperate?
Social Media/Text/Twitter implications<br>
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ANIMAL ESCAPES Think About:
What is your primary responsibility?
What Animal Escaped? Location?
Who oversees the incident?
You may not have contact with your Supervision
What Steps need to be taken?<br>
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ANIMAL ESCAPE DRILL RECAP After each drill, a debriefing occurs
Furthers institutions preparation
AZA Accreditation documentation
Review your current emergency plan
Think about situations
Feedback from the areas on prep<br>
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How the Tabletop Works Each group has a dice
Roll when told too
After Each roll compare number to number on the slide
Discuss your thoughts.
Each member has 2 minutes to get their point across (Remember in an actual scenario or drill you also have limited time)<br>
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First Roll – Day of the Week First Roll
Sunday Morning before 9 am
Tuesday Morning around 11 AM
Saturday Afternoon 3 pm
Friday Morning at 8 am
Wednesday Morning at 10 am
Thursday Afternoon at 430 pm<br>
Second Roll - Discussion Think About in your role what would you do? What type of animal has escaped?
What is your initial reaction?
What would you be doing at this point?<br>
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Third Roll–Animal Travels Still next to their enclosure/night house
Going South behind the scenes
Going North behind the scenes
Into a guest area towards south end of zoo
Into a guest area towards North end of zoo
Into a guest area towards the middle of the zoo<br>
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Third Roll – Discussion Think About
1 minute for each player to discuss… The location of the escaped animal
The direction or movement it has taken
What would you be doing at this point?<br>
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Fourth Roll – Developments Keeper has been injured during the escape
Guest are within close proximity of the escaped animal
Team has lost sight of the animal at this point
Golf Cart is heading in the direction of the animal's location
Staff member appears within 50 ft of the animal
A hard rain starts pouring down<br>
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Fourth Roll – Discussion Think About
1 minute for each player to discuss… Each player has 1 minute to discuss how they understand the zoo is reacting as a whole
Each player should discuss their reaction<br>
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Fifth Roll – Developments Visitors Start videoing and resisting being evacuated
Police show up on scene
News Helicopter starts hovering above the zoo
Contractor/Vendor shows up in area of animal
Fire Department shows up at Front gate
Media shows up at zoo<br>
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Fifth Roll – Discussion Think About
1 minute for each player to discuss… Each player has 1 minute to discuss how they understand the zoo is reacting as a whole
Each player should discuss their reaction<br>
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Animal Escape Wrap-Up Animal is recaptured
Each group makes debriefing notes
Each group makes presentation on escape and debrief
What would they do differently?
What are concerns they have?
After each group has presented
Next steps
What was learned<br>
