FDNY teams with Marines to stage mock suicide bomb, poison gas attacks

Barry Paddock
New York Daily News
April 23, 2010

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

They staged the unthinkable.

The city’s fire department teamed up with Marines Thursday morning to respond to simultaneous mock suicide bomber and poison gas attacks.

An FDNY team raced around the mangled shell of an MTA bus, herding wounded “victims” to a triage area as real fire burned in the street.

Other rescue workers raced to pull victims from crushed cars turned on their sides or upside down. About 100 firefighters joined 100 marines in the chillingly realistic exercise at the FDNY Fire Academy on Randall’s Island.

In a replica of a city subway platform filled with haze, dozens of faux victims screamed for help as they lay among mangled dummies representing the dead.

Read entire article

This article was posted: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:46 am

---

---

---

---