Lead Through the Storm — A 48-Hour Crisis at Severnvale NHS Trust
A four-round, advanced crisis-leadership simulation set inside Severnvale University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the designated major-trauma and…
About this simulation
A 90-minute, 4-round basic Express simulation for Spanish vocational training (Formacion Profesional), grado superior, module 1506 Supervision de la intervencion en incendios forestales y quemas prescritas of the Tecnico Superior en Coordinacion de Emergencias y Proteccion Civil (Real Decreto 906/2013).
The learner is Ainhoa Etxaleku, a newly qualified technician of the prescribed-burn programme of a fictional comarca, the Sierra de Almendrera, above a housing estate on the wildland-urban edge.
Four situations set the programme's way of working in the 2027-28 season: the season's programme, and how the prescription window is set (a burn plan with ranges of humidity, wind, temperature, fine fuel moisture and stability, and a go/no-go on the day) and how the means and the contingency are sized; the first burn of the winter, and how a burn is started (a test fire against the prescription, suspended if the weather leaves the window) and notified (the emergency centre, the forest agent, the council and the residents); a burn that escapes towards the estate, and how the population is protected (early evacuation by the safe exit, confinement where leaving is riskier) and how the means are called (the escape declared at the trigger and handed over, aerial means on the head); and the mop-up, the review and the close of the season (the perimeter cold, the watch, the georeferenced register, the report with the escape and its causes).
The weather window is half the safety of a burn. Scored on the hectares treated within prescription, the cost of the means per hectare, the hectares escaped and the safety incidents; training-level decision practice on the CLIF technical recommendations for prescribed burns (2021) and the Directriz basica for forest fires (Real Decreto 893/2013), complementing the module's supervised practical work.
Four critical errors cap the round at 40: lighting outside the prescription, notifying nobody, not declaring the escape, and recording the escape as an enlarged perimeter. Spanish primary, English parity.
What participants learn
After the session, participants will be able to:
- Design the prescription window of a burn: the ranges of humidity, wind, temperature, fine dead fuel moisture and stability inside which it meets its objective and stays controllable, with a go/no-go
- Size the crews, the water and the contingency perimeter with its triggers before the first match, check the window with a test fire and suspend the burn when the weather leaves it
- Notify every burn to the emergency centre, the forest agent, the council and the residents before lighting it
- Decide to declare an escape at its trigger as the forest fire it is, hand it over with aerial means on the head and ground crews on the flank, and choose evacuation or confinement for the residents
- Evaluate the season honestly: mop up the perimeter cold, keep the watch and the georeferenced register, compare behaviour with the prescription and report the escape with its causes
Who it is for
An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: martes 5 de octubre, 9:00: el programa de la temporada.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.