National Guard CBRNE Drill at FTC on 8/9/13

[Disaster_Guy 96]

600 National Guard soldiers will be conducting a drill involving a derailed train with a chemical spill at the Westchester County Fire Training Center tomorrow (Friday) at 1pm as part of the annual training evaluation for the FEMA Region II Homeland Response Force.

Full Media Advisory: http://readme.readmedia.com/NY-National-Guard-Soldiers-Prepare-for-Disasters-in-Westchester/7111299

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Anyone able to take pics?

[Disaster_Guy 96]

Anyone able to take pics?

Pictures by Journal News (there is also a video on their site):

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=BH&Dato=20130809&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=308090067&Ref=PH

Video by News 12:

http://westchester.news12.com/news/new-york-national-and-air-national-guard-conducting-three-day-training-exercise-in-valhalla-1.5861568

Edited August 9, 2013 by Larchmont_Boy

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Edited August 10, 2013 by SOUSGT

[SteveOFD 176]

Here are the pictures I took this afternoon.

I heard some comm's on Fireground 3 around this exercise. This Evening as I was returning home it appeared they were using the smokehouse.