CAMAS — Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, a host of people including teenage actors, a slew of firefighters and police, and Life Flight and U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pilots will play out a disaster drill that portrays a chemical leak that exposes 20 to 30 teenage “victims.”
Being held at the Port of Camas-Washougal, the drill will involve 23 organizations ranging from Kemira, a chemical group headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, to BNSF Railway, Clark County Emergency Management and firefighters and police from several departments in Clark and Skamania counties.
After the teens are exposed, they will be decontaminated and receive medical care, and a regional Hazardous Materials team will deal with the leak itself. The helicopters will be there for medical transport, according to a bulletin from Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency.
Also participating will be 911 dispatchers, Red Cross, ham radio operators, Silver Star Search & Rescue, Georgia-Pacific, Clark College and more.
