Wildfire readiness
Exercise Red Horizon
- Format
- Full-day incident management team exercise
- Sector
- Emergency management
01The situation
Incident management teams rarely struggle because they do not understand the plan. The challenge comes when conditions change faster than the plan, information becomes incomplete and multiple priorities begin competing for attention.
Red Horizon was designed to recreate that environment.
02The brief
Rehearse the decisions, coordination and information management required as a bushfire evolves from a manageable incident into a complex, high-consequence emergency.
What was tested
- Incident management
- Situational awareness
- Resource prioritisation
- Inter-agency coordination
- Information management
- Decision-making under pressure
03How it ran
Over a full day, participants operate inside a dynamically evolving bushfire emergency. New intelligence, changing fire behaviour, resource constraints, community impacts and stakeholder pressures progressively complicate the response.
Rather than simply discussing what they would do, participants have to make decisions, communicate them and deal with what happens next. The result exposes coordination gaps, tests command arrangements and gives incident management teams the opportunity to build readiness before the season begins.
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