PIN NOW!!!! ZOMBIE ATTACK Disaster Preparedness Simulation Exercise

ZOMBIE ATTACK

Disaster Preparedness Simulation Exercise #5 (DR5)
E-Learning System Support Team:
AT-ICS, AT-LSS, CNS-OSG, UF Help Desk
Purpose
The purpose of this exercise is to discern appropriate strategies for responding to a zombie attack and/or
infection that might affect the University of Florida campus.
Participants
 All AT-LSS staff
 Appropriate AT-ICS staff
 Appropriate CNS-OSG staff
 Representatives from the UF Computing Help Desk
 CNS emergency planning representatives
 EHS emergency planning representative
 UF Zombie Response Team
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Process
This exercise consists of a single event: a table-top exercise in which the science (e.g. neurobiology) of
“zombieism,” or zombie behavior spectrum disorder
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(ZBSD) will be discussed and the stages of an
outbreak identified, with follow-on discussion of how an outbreak of zombie attacks might affect
maintaining support for the campus course management system.
This disaster exercise may draw upon the Campus Closure Exercise (DR4) current in the preparations
stage.
Discussion
It is clear that international media have begun paying increasing attention to the possibility of an outbreak
of zombie behavior spectrum disorder.
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Likewise, major metropolitan police agencies are starting to pay
attention to the possibility of zombie attacks and are addressing citizen notification concerns.
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Such a team does not yet exist at the University of Florida; but we are confident UF administration will
soon see the importance of such a group, probably situated within the University Police Department.

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