Primary Submission
The NIHHIS Situation Manual remains the center of the submission. HotHub is a companion artifact that shows repeatability, actionability, and training value.
What HotHub Is
HotHub helps exercise coordinators turn a heat tabletop Situation Manual into reusable operational materials: scenario files, facilitator drills, protocol cards, training lessons, decision logs, scoring summaries, and AAR/IP-ready outputs.
It is designed for Savannah / Chatham County's extreme heat plus partial power outage scenario, but the content is configuration-driven so other localities can adapt it.
Coordinator Ready
The Exercise Library provides downloadable mini-drills with setup, roles, injects, expected outputs, scoring checks, and debrief questions.
Config Driven
Scenarios, lessons, training paths, and exercises live in JSON files under config/, making them easy to add, revise, and reuse.
NIMS Aligned
HotHub uses NIMS as the operating framework and CLEAR-HEAT as the heat-specific field protocol for coordination, resource management, public information, SITREPs, and after-action improvement.
Core Capabilities
- Scenario JSON import and export
- Downloadable coordinator exercise packets
- Module and inject player
- Decision/action logging
- Activity scoring from uploaded notes and tool scans
- CLEAR-HEAT protocol documentation
- NIMS-aligned operating model with CLEAR-HEAT field protocol mapping
- Scenario training with lessons, checklists, quizzes, and progress
- AAR/IP-oriented results export
Submission Positioning
HotHub should be described as optional and supportive. The manual must remain fully usable without the website. The website helps judges see that the exercise can be repeated, localized, trained, scored, and converted into improvement actions.