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Santa Monica Pier will be temporarily closed. Personnel from the SMFD and SMPD will be conducting a scheduled emergency preparedness training. There will be a large number of police and fire vehicles as well as smoke and loud bangs.
On Thursday, October 12, 2023 from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm, personnel from the Santa Monica Fire and Police Departments will conduct a joint training at the Santa Monica Pier. The objective of this exercise is to train our first responders and test their response to high-risk, complex, events involving multiple agencies. While the pier will be closed to guests during this time, we believe that this training is essential to ensuring the safety and security of our pier and its visitors.
The Training Cadre will utilize simunitions and smoke simulations which look and sound real. Combined with the help of volunteer actors from the community, we aim to make this training as realistic as possible to further prepare our personnel in the event of an actual active threat.
We recognize the potential for passersby and residents to believe a real incident is taking place. In addition to this notice to the surrounding community, signage will be placed around the perimeter of the exercise along.
We also understand that this exercise may cause some inconvenience and we deeply appreciate your understanding and patience during this timeframe. Your cooperation greatly assists our efforts to ensure the safety and preparedness of our first responders. Thank you for your continued support.
Note: This training is not in response to the recent incident on the Pier, but has been scheduled since May 2023.
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