Before the Call · Infrastructure Training Series

The plan was there.
No one ever practiced it.

Your center holds Emergency Action Plans for dams, pipelines, and hazmat facilities in your jurisdiction. Your staff has probably never trained on them. We turn those plans into dispatcher exercises — built from your actual EAP documentation, specific to your geography.

The binder exists. The flowchart is printed. When the dam breaks, your dispatcher is reading it for the first time. Step 1: Confirm there is a breach.

The Problem

EAP distribution is not EAP training.

Federal regulations require that dam owners, pipeline operators, and nuclear facilities distribute Emergency Action Plans to local PSAPs. Those plans include notification flowcharts that name your center. Your dispatchers are expected to execute them.

There is no national program that ensures they know how.

"Step 1: Confirm there is a breach."

The first line of a real dam EAP notification flowchart. For most dispatchers, the first time they read it will be during the event it was written for.

The gap isn't knowledge — it's practice. These are low-frequency, high-consequence events. The EAP gets distributed, it goes in a binder, and it sits there until it doesn't. The Infrastructure Training Series is built specifically to close that gap, from the dispatcher's seat.

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The plan was distributed
EAPs are legally required to be provided to PSAPs. Most centers have them. Few dispatchers know what's in them.
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These events are rare
A dispatcher may work an entire career without a dam failure. That's exactly why the training has to happen before the call comes in.
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The call comes in anyway
Low probability doesn't mean zero. When it happens, the dispatcher is the first link in a chain that determines what 188,000 people do next.
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It counts toward CE
Every exercise is scenario-based, documentable, and fits into the continuing education structure your center already uses. No new program required.
Coverage

What's in the series

The Infrastructure Training Series covers the four federally regulated infrastructure types most likely to generate an EAP notification to a PSAP. Each type has its own schema, scenario logic, and training focus.

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Dam EAPs
High-hazard dam failures, spillway crises, notification flowchart execution, multi-county coordination, and dispatch center continuity when your facility is in the inundation zone.
● Live — 2 exercises
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Pipeline Corridors
Natural gas and liquid petroleum pipeline ruptures, PHMSA-required EAP notifications, caller recognition of pipeline events, and operator coordination protocols.
● Live — 2 exercises
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Nuclear Facility EOPs
NRC-required Emergency Operating Procedures, protective action decision support, public alert and warning coordination, and multi-agency notification chains.
○ Planned
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Hazmat / Industrial
LEPC-coordinated facility EAPs, RMP-covered facilities, shelter-in-place decision support, and industrial release notification protocols.
● Live — 1 exercise
Free Exercises

Start here — no login, no cost

Every exercise in the Infrastructure Training Series is free for individual dispatchers, training coordinators, and public safety agencies. Built from real incidents. Told from the console. Print-to-PDF on every page for your training records.

The Process

From your EAP binder to a ready-to-run exercise

Custom exercises are built directly from your agency's documentation — your facilities, your notification flowchart, your geography. The pipeline is straightforward.

01
You provide the EAP
Your center is already a named plan holder in most of the EAPs in your jurisdiction. You have the document. If not, your county EM can get it — facilities are required by regulation to distribute it.
02
We extract the PSAP role
We pull the dispatcher-relevant content — the notification flowchart, your center's specific steps, the classification levels, the geographic scope — and leave the rest. Contact info stays in your binder.
03
We build the exercise
Scenario, dispatch timeline, decision points, discussion questions, and quiz — all based on your actual plan and real incidents of the same type. Your agency's branding if you want it.
04
Your training staff runs it
Delivered as a self-contained HTML file. Works offline. Print-to-PDF for training records. No platform, no login, no subscription required to use what we build. It's yours.
Agency Services

Free exercises. Custom builds when you're ready.

The free library is the starting point. For agencies that want training built around their specific plans and their specific geography, these are the options.

Always Free
Infrastructure Exercise Library
$0 / forever

Every exercise in the Infrastructure Training Series is free for any agency to use, share, and run as in-service training without restriction.

  • Growing library of dam and pipeline exercises
  • Real incidents, dispatcher perspective
  • Print-to-PDF for training documentation
  • Works offline, no login required
  • Free to use in shift briefings or CE programs
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Subscription
Monthly In-Service Curriculum
$399 / year per agency

A new incident-based training module every month — written from the dispatcher perspective, built around real comm center failures and successes. Infrastructure modules included in the rotation.

  • New module every month
  • Formatted for shift briefings
  • 10-question exam for documentation
  • Infrastructure incidents in the rotation
  • Replaces supervisor-written curriculum
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About Before the Call

Built by someone who answers the phone

Before the Call is a free dispatch training library built by a 911 operations supervisor — not a training vendor. 23 years in emergency communications, 150+ telecommunicators, 40+ agencies. The Infrastructure Training Series comes from the same place every exercise does: a real gap that real dispatchers need to be ready for.

40+
Free exercises in the library
23
Years on console
40+
Agencies served
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If your center holds EAPs for infrastructure in your jurisdiction and you want to talk about what a custom exercise build looks like, the fastest path is a 15-minute call.

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