The above document can be viewed by clicking the link at the official California page or download it at the official Golden Guardian page. I did not realize that California had been conducting these Golden Guardian exercises since 2004. The 2010 exercise will be a terrorist attack on various Bay Area ports.
When hundreds of emergency personnel descend on the Port of Redwood City in May, prepared to respond to a terrorist attack, it will actually be just a $3 million full-scale drill designed to prepare first-responders for the possible threat.
Golden Guardian exercises are part of a statewide program established in 2004 and overseen by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office of Homeland Security to protect the state in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist threat, said Jay Alan, spokesman for the California Emergency Management Agency.
Future Golden Guardian exercises will include:
- 2011: Catastrophic Flood (Central Valley)
- 2012: Catastrophic Earthquake (Southern California)
- 2013: Catastrophic Earthquake (Bay Area)
- 2014: Terrorism - Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources
- 2015: Civil Disturbance
Source: San Francisco Examiner ; California Emergency Management Agency
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