Disaster, RFK Style
Tomorrow RFK Stadium in Washington will be home to a 75-person team, 28 semi-tractor trailers, two emergency communications vehicles, four hazmat trailers, one mobile cell site and five smaller utility and support trailers.
Tractor trailers at RFK Stadium in Washington
Tomorrow RFK Stadium in Washington will be home to a 75-person team, 28 semi-tractor trailers, two emergency communications vehicles, four hazmat trailers, one mobile cell site and five smaller utility and support trailers.
AT&T will host its Network Disaster Recovery exercise at the stadium on Tuesday to test, evaluate, refine, and strengthen how well the company can recover from disasters such as hurricanes or wildfires. This is the 54th technical recovery exercise that the company has conducted -- and the largest to date. Generators are set up to provide the power for the exercise, with no reliance on commercial power. This latest exercise is designed to test new technologies that have been added to the AT&T NDR fleet and bring some new AT&T NDR volunteers up to speed on emergency procedures.
The NDR team coordinated with federal, state and local government agencies to restore service after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001; Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005; Hurricanes Gustav, Dolly and Ike in 2008, and the recent wildfires in Southern California, according to the AT&T release.
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