Hospitals, Health Organizations Participate In Ventura County’s Extensive Disaster Drill
The fake terrorist events created "3,000 patients" who needed care from these health organizations, which included nursing homes and outpatient surgery centers.
Ventura County Star:
Health Groups Deal With Active Shooter In Massive Drill
Less than a month after a lone gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas, more than 180 area health care agencies faced simulated scenarios involving active shooters and other terrorism Wednesday in one of the largest disaster drills held in Ventura County. Planned months before the Vegas tragedy underscored the need for such preparation, the drill unleashed a series of connected acts. They included a massive explosion at a rock concert attended by 115,000 people, terrorists who gun down students and staff at a community college and explosions and fires in five classrooms at an area high school. (Kisken, 10/25)
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The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Vegas Docs Share Shooting Experiences With Peers At San Diego Surgery Conference
Speaking to a rapt audience of their peers in a packed room at the San Diego Convention Center, Las Vegas trauma surgeons described what it was like to deal with the aftermath of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting which killed 59 people and injured 550 during a country music festival on Oct. 1. Vegas hospitals, they said, have been planning for such an event alongside the city’s first responders ever since a deadly fire engulfed the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in 1980. (Sisson, 10/25)