2023 Songpa-gu Disaster Response Safety Korea Drill

Joint Drill with Seoul City... 2,000 Participants from 28 Organizations
Assuming Fire at Performance Venue and Crowd Accident... Real-Time Linked Training Between Disaster Site and Command Center

Songpa-gu (District Mayor Seo Gang-seok) will conduct the '2023 Songpa-gu Disaster Response Safety Korea Drill' on the 7th at the Olympic Park SK Handball Stadium to prepare for large-scale complex disasters such as fires and crowd crush incidents.

Co-hosted by Songpa-gu and Seoul City, this drill will be held in an 'integrated linkage method' to strengthen cooperation systems between departments and agencies, prioritizing the safety of residents in the event of a disaster. Civil, public, military, police, and fire services will participate together, focusing on rapid situation dissemination, management, and disaster site response.

Reflecting Songpa-gu's characteristics of a large population and numerous large-scale performance venues, the district planned a 'mass crowd accident' response drill to prepare for disaster situations that may occur at performance venues. About 2,000 personnel from 28 organizations, including Songpa Police Station and the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, as well as the Autonomous Disaster Prevention Corps and the National Experience Group, will participate, with around 60 pieces of equipment mobilized.

Notably, this year the drill will be conducted as an 'integrated linkage drill' simultaneously carrying out 'field training' and 'discussion training' at the Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters. Utilizing the disaster safety communication network (PS-LTE) between Seoul City and Songpa-gu, a system linking the field and the control room in real time will be established to conduct rapid situation dissemination, resource support, and recovery training in preparation for large-scale disasters.

Within the performance venue, assuming scenarios such as ▲‘fire-related casualties’ and ▲‘mass crowd accident’ leading to crush during audience evacuation, the drill will proceed with ▲initial situation reception and dissemination ▲rapid initial response ▲activation of the Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters ▲Seoul City and Songpa-gu situation assessment meetings ▲inspection of civil, public, military, and police collaborative response systems ▲and focused discussions on identifying problems and improvement measures.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “Through the joint drill between Seoul City and Songpa-gu, we will establish a rapid situation reporting system and role-sharing system among response agencies during disaster situations to strengthen initial response capabilities.” He added, “By conducting field training based on actual scenarios, we will thoroughly prepare for various disasters that can occur anytime and anywhere and do our best to ensure the safety of our residents.”

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