New England Rescue Collaborative: Multi-Agency Stadium Preparedness at Scale
New England Rescue Collaborative prepares regional agencies for large-scale public events. PJ Halloran needed to coordinate hazmat response readiness across multiple agencies at a stadium-sized venue — something tabletop exercises simply cannot replicate. SYGNAL's GPS-based hazard zones made a true-scale, multi-agency drill possible.
The Organization
New England Rescue Collaborative (nerescuecollaborative.com) is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based organization focused on multi-agency event preparedness across the New England region. They design and run coordinated exercises that stress-test regional response capabilities in realistic venue-scale environments.
The Challenge
Preparing for large-scale public events required coordinating hazmat response readiness across multiple agencies — but traditional tabletop exercises could not replicate the scale and complexity of a real venue environment. Coordination failures and timing issues that only emerge at venue scale were invisible in smaller drills.
The Solution
NERC used SYGNAL's GPS-based hazard zones to run a full multi-agency event preparedness exercise at a large stadium. The platform simulated chemical release scenarios that responders had to detect, assess, and respond to in real time across the entire facility. Incident command used SYGNAL's shared operational view to coordinate multiple agencies as a single unit.
The Result
Multiple agencies trained together in a realistic large-venue scenario and surfaced coordination gaps and timing issues that only exist at scale. The exercise produced concrete operational insights for regional event preparedness — the kind of learning that cannot emerge from tabletop or small-scale drills.
In Their Words
"SYGNAL gave incident command full situational awareness during our multi-agency stadium exercise — mapping real-time hazard zones so teams could detect, assess, and respond to simulated chemical releases as a coordinated unit." — PJ Halloran, Director, New England Rescue Collaborative