Daniel Terdiman
CNet News
August 18, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO–”Weapons of mass destruction multi-agency exercise.”
If I’ve ever covered an event with a more stark title, I can’t think of it.
But there I was Saturday morning, along with several hundred firefighters, police officers, Army National Guard personnel, and members of other local, state, and federal agencies for a large-scale exercise designed to help train all these emergency responders how to deal with a major terrorist attack involving suspected chemical weapons or other bio-hazards.
As a bulletin announcing the exercise put it, the goal was for the agencies’ personnel to “identify the emergency and work as one large team to protect and save lives and mitigate the hazards.”
Practically speaking, this was quite the undertaking. Upon arriving in the middle of San Francisco’s usually crowded financial district, I encountered no traffic, but a wide variety of emergency vehicles and dozens upon dozens of people in almost every official uniform you can imagine.
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