Multi-Jurisdictional Animal Resource

Coordination ExerciseMARCE 2017

July 11/12 or 13/14, 2017Exercise in your state EOC

http://marce.ca.uky.edu/

Request animal emergency resources

Identify deployable animal emergency resources

Communicate with emergency preparedness partners

Use existing emergency management systems

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Pets and Service Animals ∙ Livestock ∙ Captive Wildlife ∙ Lab Animals

MARCE 2017MARCE 2017 is an HSEEP functional exercise. Using virtual sandbox

environments, players will collaborate to exercise resource coordination during a major natural disaster scenario affecting animals.

This exercise made possible through Cooperative Agreement No. 16‐6100‐0109‐CA between United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) and the University of Kentucky. 

PRE-EXERCISE ONLINE TRAINING• Learn how to perform animal resource

request and assistance tasks• Understand exercise parameters• Available live and recorded

OPTIONAL PARTICIPANTS• State veterinarian/animal health official• State finance/logistics officer• Other applicable stakeholders• Observers

OUTCOMES• Increase knowledge of emergency response resources• Improve resource coordination skills • Expand cadre of deployable resources • Strengthen state and regional stakeholder partnerships

REQUIRED PARTICIPANTS• State animal emergency operations personnel responsible for pets and

service animals, livestock, captive wildlife, laboratory animals• State emergency management personnel with authority for Emergency

Management Assistance Compacts and Resource Request Forms • State exercise/training officer (evaluator/controller)

LOCATION• Exercise is virtual• Play at state emergency operations

center (EOC) or equivalent