To Hell and Back in Five Days
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To Hell and Back in Five Days: Lessons in disaster recovery and emergency response. Jon DiPietro Principal, Bridge-Soft [email protected]
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Between February 7 and March 14, 2009, more than 400 bush fires across the state of Victoria, Australia, scorched over a million acres of land, killing 173 and injuring 414. Engineers at Goulburn Valley Water (GVW), provider of urban water and wastewater services to 54 towns and cities on the outskirts of Melbourne, watched as their telemetry system from the Kilmore Dissolved Air Filtration plant reported an ambient control room temperature of 142 °F before going silent on the afternoon of Saturday, February 7. A site visit on the following day revealed that while the treatment plant survived the fire, its control room was completely incinerated, destroying the electrical switchgear, plant HMI, laboratory, instrumentation and chemical dosing systems. With only five days worth of water stored, an emergency response plan to rebuild the control room and recommission the plant went into action.
Transcript of To Hell and Back in Five Days
To Hell and Back in Five Days:
Lessons in disaster recoveryand emergency response.
Jon DiPietroPrincipal, Bridge-Soft
“Burning Trees” courtesy of Sascha Grant via Creative Commons on Flickr
400 fires
1,000,000+ acres
173 dead
414 injured
Preparation
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe.”- Carl Sagan
Documentation
Human Resources
Relationships
Planning
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”- Sun Tzu
Assessment
Strategy
Tactics
Execution
“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
- Field Marshall Helmuth Carl
Assembly
Installation
Improvisation
Commissioning
Conclusion
Emergency preparednessCross-trained & motivated team
Strong vendor relationshipsSolid planning
LUCK
