Welcome to the Winter Blues! Exercise.

This page contains links to all the documents and materials required to run the Winter Blues! Exercise.

Step 1

Review the Winter Blues! Exercise Controller Guidebook before you start. (in PDF – 750 KB)

Step 2

To run the Winter Blues! Exercise, you will require two computers to simultaneously run audio and video files. View the computer technical requirements.

Step 3

Download and save all the documents below. It is important to read the Winter Blues! Exercise Controller Guidebook well in advance of the date that you intend on running the exercise to ensure that you have completed all the preparations.

Materials for Controllers

  1. Winter Blues! Master Sequence of Events (in PDF – 150 KB)
  2. Winter Blues! Exercise Inputs (in PDF – 2.8 MB)
  3. Winter Blues! Evaluation Guide (in PDF – 150 KB)

EOC Resources

  1. EOC Response Goals (in PDF – 90 KB)
  2. Leadership Poster (in PDF – 50 KB)
  3. SIMTEC Training Video Poster (in PDF – 1.3 MB)
  4. Winter Blues! EOC OBJECTIVES For Posting in EOC #1 (in PDF – 60 KB)
  5. Winter Blues! WEATHER For Posting in EOC #2 (in PDF – 55 KB)
  6. Winter Blues! RESOURCES For Posting in EOC #3 (in PDF – 50 KB)
  7. Winter Blues! OPERATIONAL PERIOD For Posting in EOC #4 (in PDF – 50 KB)
  8. Winter Blues! EVENTS For Posting in EOC #5 (in PDF – 55 KB)
  9. Denton-Map-Large-v6 (in JPG – 5.4 MB)

Materials for Players

  1. Winter Blues! Player Handout (in PDF – 140 KB)
  2. Stress Tip Cards During & After Your Shift (in PDF – 265 KB)

    Denton Emergency Plan and Agreements

  3. SIMTEC Winter Blues Training Video Brochure in PDF (148 KB ) | Print Version (148 KB)
  4. Declaration of Local Emergency (in PDF – 80 KB)
  5. Denton Emergency Management Plan (in PDF – 180 KB)
  6. Murrayville Agency & Department Resource List (in PDF – 85 KB)
  7. Mutual Aid Agreement Murrayville & Denton (in PDF – 90 KB)

    Denton Resources & Demographics

  8. Denton Agency & Departmental Resource List (in PDF – 90 KB)
  9. Denton Demographics (in PDF – 80 KB)
  10. EMails with Current Available Resources (in PDF – 40 KB)

    Emergency Response Forms and Directions

  11. EOC Forms (in PDF – 440 KB)
  12. INSTRUCTIONS for EOC Forms (in PDF – 130 KB)

Step 4

Download and save all the MP4 video files below before you start the exercise. (Please read the Controller Guidebook prior to running the exercise)

  1. Winter Blues! Training Video
    Download video in MP4 ( 56 MB) | Streaming Video
  2. Welcome to Denton!
    Download video in MP4 ( 20 MB) | Streaming Video
  3. Exercise Audio and Status Boards
    Download video in MP4 (256 MB) | Streaming Video
  4. Winter Blues! Exercise
    Download video in MP4 (269 MB | Streaming Video
  5. Winter Blues! Exercise Video References (in PDF – 70 KB)

Post Exercise Feedback

We would like to hear about your experiences running the Winter Blues! Exercise. Please contact us at simtec@jibc.ca.