Formerly the Catawba Flood Exercise

The exercise will be based in Burke County North Carolina and utilize multiple locations to provide realistic scenarios. The Burke/Catawba Flood and Land Search Exercise is a wide area search exercise designed to test water and land search and rescue capability to mobilize, integrate, and deploy search and rescue assets in response to a large scale-flooding incident as well as lost persons in flooding and wilderness environments. The exercise will include areas to test resources in dynamic and static water rescue, wide area search, lost/missing person search in flood and wilderness environments, logistics and base of operations, communications, as well as command and control. This exercise is designed to test deployment capabilities of response teams to austere environments, locations for base of operations will be provided with power and restroom/shower facilities and only basic “snacks”, bottled water and MREs will be provided for feeding.  Air and ground resources will be utilized to respond to various scenarios and provide time for debriefings to share best practices across the various response agencies. This exercise is open to instate and out of state resources as one of the main exercise objectives is to integrate response organizations across multiple jurisdictions. 

• Powerboat and Paddle craft operations
• Communications
• Static and Dynamic Water Operations
• Command and Control
• Logistical Support
• Day and Night Operations
• Highline Rope Rescue
• Resource Integrations

Swiftwater Crews

Incident Management Team Personnel

Ground Pounders

Drone Operators (UAS)

K-9 SAR Teams

Equestrian Teams