Strategic Evacuation Plan Anna

Strategic Evacuation Plan Anna refers to a Sebrenskiyan civilian evacuation plan under a hypothetical Invasion by Ostland.

Background

As Sebrenskiyan and Ostlandic tensions escalated through the 1950s and 1960s, the Sebrenskiyan Defence Ministry feared an invasion from Ostland over the Sebrenskiyan-Ostlandic Border Crisis.

Upon commissioning the Sebrenskiyan Autoput System, the Defence Ministry also commissioned a plan for mass evacuation from Southern Maldania, the likely starting point for hostilities with Ostland. It was to include the under construction Autoput 1, major artery roads, civilian airports, and heavy/light rail.

Previous planning

Sebrenskiya would issue a warning via the National Emergency Alert System, and would also use air raid sirens, weather sirens with different toning, as well as police and military mobilization to alert civilians of major evacuation planning.

Sign indicating safe military evacuation

Upon Notice of evacuation, 24 hours would lapse before Southbound traffic was entirely banned, and various warning systems would tell drivers to go northbound on Federal Highway 187, Federal Highway 981, and Autoput 2. Federal Police in Pliska would direct civilians to Pliska International Airport, or to either Federal Highway 981 or Autoput 2.

All civilian airliners present at Pliska International Airport would have their initial flights cancelled, and be servicing evacuation routes to Pancevo, Stolbscy, and Osijek. Flights inbound to Pliska would be redirected north to pre-destined evacuation cities, and flights inbound to Miravci would be cancelled and redirected to Pancevo for safety concerns.

Heavy rail would likely be reserved for military use, and was not part of the initial planning for evacuations.

Current Planning

Sebrenskiya's Defence Ministry and the Transportation Ministry have worked together in developing the area of Southern Maldania, putting an extensive Autoput system in the area.

Warning would be issued in five different ways - The Federal Radio Oversight Department would directly take over all AM and FM radio frequencies, ordering evacuation "immediately"; Via the National Emergency Alert System over the televisions, via text message under the National Security Commission; by stop arms preventing traffic from going southbound, with lighted signs demanding all traffic to exit and turn around. Additionally, civilians currently at any rail station or airport would be informed that "evacuations due to severe military concern" had cancelled all previous routes and now new evacuation routes had been issued.

Within 45 minutes of the issuance of War Condition 2 (the automatic trigger of evacuations), southbound traffic would be entirely banned. All lanes, excluding the right hand shoulder on both sides of the median (but including the hard shoulder on the left hand lanes for both sides of the median), would be northbound traffic on Autoput 2 and Autoput 3. Autoput 202 would prevent any traffic inbound to the city of Pliska, and instead force all traffic to go north towards Pancevo or Velingrad, or allow those to evacuate west to Kyustendil (to evacuate towards Vrutnov, Vihoslavia).

In Miravci, Traffic would be prohibited from going towards Pliska, and would be required to take Autoput 2 towards Zepce, Autoput 312 towards Autoput 1 (to evacuate to Kyustendil, Pancevo, or Velingrad). Miravci would have a longer period of time from traffic being prohibited from going south towards it - civilian industries and public transportation sectors would be mobilizing en masse to assist in evacuations from Pliska.

Autoput 312 in three lane reversal (stage two of lane reversal in emergency evacuation)

Airports in Pliska and Miravci would be forcing airliners to evacuate to Bovec, Osikek, Prilep, Novi Pazar, and Travnik, cities that would not be burdened with the ground evacuations. Railway would be used extensively - in 2002, the Sebrenskiyan Transporation Ministry stated that "Ostland's ability to conduct deep, rapid strikes necessitated the need to evacuate civilians as fast as possible."

Security concerns about aircraft in Pliska and Miravci - well within the range of Ostland's Patriot air defences and within striking range of the KRO 39 Grief fighters, has forced Sebrenskiya to keep extensive air defences, including Surface to Air Missile Systems, Electronic Warfare Systems, and presence of military fighter aircraft, around the airports. Though considered unlikely from a military standpoint that Ostland would order the shoot down civilian aircraft, miss-identification and rogue pilots could cause catastrophic loss of civilian life.

Air Sebrenskiya's entire fleet of civilian aircraft have anti-missile defences, due to the volatile nature of the situation for many years.

In Use

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Sebrenskiyan S-300s protecting aircraft at Pliska International Airport (April 17th, 2005)

The mass evacuation system has only been used once. In 2005, the Mjors Port Terror Attack caused the two nations to go into deep hostilites. Ten days after the attack, Sebrenskiya fell to War Condition 2, automatically triggering civilian evacuation.

The evacuation system proved to be extremely successful - however, there were 18 traffic accidents which caused significant delays and 21 fatalities. The culprit for the majority of the accidents were individuals who had not noticed signage demanding them to evacuate the area, and had used the previously southbound lanes and crashed into northbound traffic. The Transporation Ministry has since added even more warnings and physical barriers in lanes letting traffic turn southbound.

Approximately 68% of the entire effected population was evacuated in 14 days, exceeding the numbers required by the Transporation Ministry.