Wednesday,
November 19, 2008 - The
Tehama County Multi-Casualty Incident
(MCI) group conducted
a disaster exercise with twenty-two cooperating
city, county, regional, state, and private
agencies. The exercise simulated the
release of a toxic nerve agent into the
dormitory of the Tehama County Jail.
This produced a multi-casualty incident
that required response from multiple
local and regional first responding agencies
and the deployment of a regional cache
of medications and nerve agent antidotes
managed by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), called the CHEMPACK.
The exercise met several objectives
including jail evacuation, mass decontamination,
deployment of the CHEMPACK, mass medical
care, and Hazardous Materials response.
The exercise also allowed the opportunity
to meet the people that each agency
would be working with in responding
to a real emergency and to get to know
what role each agency will fill in
a disaster response. Tehama
County Sheriff Clay Parker said, “I think the exercise went
fine. There’s always something
we are going to forget about and that’s
the reason we do exercises. So whenever
an incident happens,
we’re
prepared.”
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FNL Theater student
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