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The scene had the look and feel of a real emergency—and some of the sounds. But missing from Sunday’s drill were the moans and cries, the overwhelming sense of urgency at a truelife disaster. And too, the hillsides of the Rixeyville farm field were dotted with moms, dads and kids out to watch the excitement while shutterbugs— both journalists and firemen—dodged rescue workers carrying stretchers and medical supplies.
The weekend long training session actually began early Saturday morning at Farmington Elementary School in Culpeper where fire and rescue personnel joined civil defense coordinators and representatives from local hospitals and government in planning how to handle a disaster.
“Then we went out and gave them an accident to handle,” said Gary Rosson, of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Emergency Services Council, sponsor and organizer of the exercise. “It went really well, compared to our last drill.”
The earlier mock disaster involved an airplane crash at the Culpeper airport. Rescue and fire units
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