I consider this a laughing-in-your-face type of story after the now unmentioned drills that went on during the Marathon.
"Emergency drill at Salem rail station Sunday will simulate Halloween
Law enforcement and transportation officials will conduct an emergency response drill at the Salem commuter rail station Sunday morning, simulating a crisis on Halloween, the city’s busy tourist season, an MBTA spokeswoman said. MBTA and Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials, the Salem police and fire departments, and Transit Police will evacuate about 120 civilian volunteers in Halloween costumes from a commuter rail train in a tunnel from 8 to 10 a.m. Planners are not saying what emergency the drill will simulate so public safety officials will have to think and react quickly, as they would in a real crisis, said Kelly Smith, an MBTA spokeswoman. The Federal Railroad Administration requires annual drills, Smith said. The Department of Homeland Security is funding the exercise, projected to cost about $10,000....
I hope the lie-based exercise is worth it in this age of austerity, Americans.
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Yes, folks, crisis drills are real, and sometimes they go "live."
Not this one though:
"Dress rehearsal for responders on rail system; Halloween blast, fire simulated in Salem" by Gal Tziperman Lotan | Globe Correspondent, June 02, 2013
SALEM — As the commuter rail car she was in filled with smoke, Sharon Stocker sat in a cavewoman Halloween costume by her 15-year-old son Robert, dressed as Batman, waiting for rescue.
The Stockers, of Peabody, had volunteered to be mock passengers for a federally required annual railway drill Sunday morning, in which police and fire officials tested their response to a simulated explosion and fire in Salem on Halloween, when the city fills with visitors.
Stocker, one of about 120 volunteers evacuated from two train cars, said she thought seeing police officers and firefighters train would calm her in case she were ever in a real emergency.
“It could happen anywhere and anytime,” said Stocker, in a leopard-print dress. “So we’d like to know how they’d react to it.”
Yes, false flags apparently can strike anywhere, at any time.
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Randy Clarke, senior director of security and emergency management for the MBTA, said, “We wanted to get the police responding thinking it was terrorism, without it actually being terrorism,” Clarke said.
After all the lies, would the government not do the same to its people?
Seven people feigned injuries, assigned ahead of time, from a head contusion and broken bones to smoke inhalation....
Those are also the iconic scenes you have seen from the Marathon, folks. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that, but the whole thing was a staged and scripted production. People have studied the video and photos, and there is simply no other conclusion that can be drawn.
Four of the simulated injuries were considered serious but none were critical, Clarke said. There were no real injuries reported, said Kelly Smith, an MBTA spokeswoman.
Planners picked the drill scenario because it would set off a fire department response and a police investigation, Clarke said.
They chose Salem on Halloween because large groups come to the city for the holiday, and the tunnel near the station because it makes the rescue more complicated. Ambulances and fire trucks could not pull right up to the train.
Officials started planning the exercise in March, Clarke said, before two bombs killed three people and injured more than 260 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, another large and iconic Massachusetts event.
Do I even need to comment?
Last year’s drill had a train crashing into a car, then clipping a fuel tanker in Waltham....
Smoke spread into the tunnel as passengers walked through the gravel by the tracks to safety.
Some wore Halloween costumes, in the spirit of the exercise, while others wore shorts and T-shirts to fend off the summer-like heat. One man walked with crutches.
I don't know about them, but it's been cold in the mornings around here. Any chance to work in the agenda-pushing, 'eh, Globe?
The Department of Homeland Security funded the drill, projected to cost about $10,000.
Ever notice we always have plenty of money for wars and tyranny?
In the coming weeks, officials will gather information from the police officers, firefighters, and civilian volunteers who participated, looking for ways to improve their response in actual emergencies.
It's getting to the point where the authorities have created so many false flags and fake scenarios that they no longer have the capacity to respond to a real one. We see it all the time across AmeriKa these days.
Salem firefighters discovered their radios did not get good reception in the tunnel, said firefighter Richard Thomas.
More than a decade after 9/11 and.... sigh.
They also figured another entrance to the tunnel might be an easier way in.
“That’s the beauty of the drill,” Thomas said. “We can find easier access points.”
Practice for a drill that will go "live" in the future!
Trisha Malphrus of Swampscott, who uses a wheelchair, said planners asked her to participate in the exercise to give those who responded more experience moving people with limited mobility, and later get her feedback.
The Globe just farted in your face, folks.
Malphrus praised the Salem firefighters who wrapped her tightly in a sheet so she could not flail her arms, then lifted her off the train in a small wheelchair.
“Their professionalism, and how seriously they took it, and their conversation . . . it was amazing,” she said.
Her husband, David, got lower marks....
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