ABOUT THE PROGRAM

About Dry Run

Dry Run is a YouTube series that rehearses the emergencies people wonder about: a falling elevator, a plane going down, a car stuck in a blizzard. Each episode is a tabletop exercise. You choose; the table shows you what happens; then you get the real procedure.

What is fiction

The frame. Calder County is not a real county and its Office of Emergency Management does not exist. Coordinator June Hadley is a fictional narrator: retired, twenty-six years in county emergency management, very patient, mildly disappointed. Gary from Public Works is also fictional, and is wrong about most things. The felt table, the pawns, and the unpainted grey piece at the edge of the board are part of the story.

We never claim to be a government agency, and real organizations are named only as sources. No endorsement is implied.

What is real

• Every procedure and every number comes from a primary or expert source with a year: regulators, building departments, codes, university procedures, peer-reviewed or official guidance. Popular science is used only as support.
• Where experts disagree, we say so on screen and on the procedure sheet, and we don't pick a side we can't source.
• EXERCISE ODDS in the video is a tabletop estimate, not a statistic. We only show a percentage when a source gives one.
• Outcomes are honest. Not every wrong choice is fatal: "still stuck", "injured" and "unknown" are real categories.

Not a substitute for training

Fiction framing. Procedures are real. Not a substitute for professional training. In a real emergency, call 911 and follow instructions from responders on scene. If you're in crisis, call or text 988.

Corrections

Spot an error in a procedure? Comment on the video or email business@dryruninstitute.com. Confirmed corrections are pinned on the video and fixed on the procedure sheet.

Contact

Business, sponsorship and press: business@dryruninstitute.com. More on the contact page.

This was a dry run. The next one may not be.