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The Cerro Grande Fire Breakout session provided a brief photo display and
overview of the Fire Emergency Event primarily to gain an understanding of
the magnitude of the event, recognize the value of all the emergency
planning sites perform when the rare site-wide emergency occurs, and to
reinforce the need to always consider the worst case when planning and
preparing emergency response operations.
The discussion following the photo
overview concentrated on the unified DOE Albuquerque Facility
Representatives support of the laboratory facility recovery effort that
identified facility hazards as a result of the fire or rapid facility
shutdown for evacuation, determined actions necessary for safe facility
reentry, and authorized facility reentry after hazard mitigating actions
were verified. We identified how the FRs were empowered to work directly
with contractor facility management, and emergency operations and recovery
personnel to approve each of these actions. Contractor and DOE partnering
efforts have been repeatedly identified as one of the primary contributors
to the success of the effort, almost all actions were completed in parallel
with one joint product. We discussed how FRs from several different AL
sites volunteered to assist and were adequately trained and fully qualified
to perform these activities even though they were not normally assigned to
Los Alamos.
This event, though tragic, identified many strengths and
benefits of the complex wide perspective of the FR program and the quality
of the personnel who become qualified as Facility Representatives.
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