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(NEW YORK) City officials staged a mock explosion in a lower Manhattan subway station early Sunday, simulating an incident with 200 injured and 40 killed to test protocols and communications among emergency personnel from multiple agencies.
Over 1,000 emergency personnel from city, state and federal agencies swarmed the Bowling Green subway station on the far southern tip of Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site, in response to the staged attack.
Citing the recent train bombing in Madrid, Mayor Michael Bloomberg characterized the simulation as a drill that has become a necessity.
"The public has a right to get the best protection we can provide," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the drill. "We have to make sure we can get the right people and the right equipment in place as well as possible."
The scenario, dubbed "Operation Transit Safe," tested emergency workers' ability to deal with hundreds of wounded people trapped in debris, and provided a yardstick for how to improve coordination among the several agencies that would respond to such an incident, Bloomberg said.
It was the sixth drill of its kind since late 2002 and was funded by a grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security.
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