Prepping for the Big One:

Hundreds of participants from more than 40 agencies volunteered their weekends to test the limits of their emergency service equipment and their own training at the Cape Blanco Airport north of Port Orford, said Deb Simon, the public information officer for the training. While the various emergency service agencies train independently for disasters, it's rare that they get to work together. The Triton32 exercise allowed them to do just that. Pilots and flight nurses spent three days flying to outlying airports in Curry County to pick up "patients" -- in this case, they were "paper patients," not real people -- transport them to the Cape Blanco Airport where their injuries were evaluated and, based on that triage, send them inland for treatment. On the ground, local firefighters worked alongside federal military agencies. Communications towers were erected. Piles of paper in the Logistics tent were checked and double-checked for correct data. Ham radio operators in Port Orford crammed into the backs of pickups, in tents, in dens throughout the counties.

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