Local emergency response agencies and the Wyoming National Guard will be staging a special incident training exercise in Rock Springs on Friday and Saturday. Sweetwater County Detective Dick Blust, Jr. says the exercise involves a fictional scenario in which a terrorist group has planted explosives in a vehicle and blown it up at the Coleman/Kanda/Nightingale Compressor and Gas Processing Complex near Wilkins Peak, southwest of Rock Springs, and that also threatens the Questar Meter Station on Foothill Boulevard in northern Rock Springs.
Blust says the exercise is designed to simulate a real-world scenario. A similar exercise was conducted in Rock Springs in June of this year, when over a dozen public and private agencies, departments, businesses, and emergency response units carried out a complex simulated disaster exercise - a fictional chlorine spill - at the Halliburton facility on Blairtown Road.
Bulletins and updates will be broadcast via County Emergency Management’s special emergency radio system (Radio Stat) during the exercise on Saturday. Those interested are encouraged to tune in on AM frequencies 1620 or 1530.
Agencies involved include the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and County Emergency Management Agency, the Wyoming National Guard, Sweetwater County Fire District #1, the Rock Springs Police Department, the Rock Springs Fire Department, Regional Emergency Response Team 4, the Sweetwater Bomb Squad, Questar, Kinder Morgan, and volunteers from Western Wyoming Community College’s Criminal Justice Program and Sweetwater County CERTS, as well as other volunteers from Sweetwater and Daggett Counties. Support from the Wyoming Guard will include the 84th Civil Support Team, Joint Task Force, the National Guard Response Force and the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability. In addition, members of the Wyoming Joint Force Headquarters Joint Operations Center personnel will be supporting the exercise from Cheyenne.
Blust says the exercise is designed to simulate a real-world scenario. A similar exercise was conducted in Rock Springs in June of this year, when over a dozen public and private agencies, departments, businesses, and emergency response units carried out a complex simulated disaster exercise - a fictional chlorine spill - at the Halliburton facility on Blairtown Road.
Bulletins and updates will be broadcast via County Emergency Management’s special emergency radio system (Radio Stat) during the exercise on Saturday. Those interested are encouraged to tune in on AM frequencies 1620 or 1530.
Agencies involved include the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and County Emergency Management Agency, the Wyoming National Guard, Sweetwater County Fire District #1, the Rock Springs Police Department, the Rock Springs Fire Department, Regional Emergency Response Team 4, the Sweetwater Bomb Squad, Questar, Kinder Morgan, and volunteers from Western Wyoming Community College’s Criminal Justice Program and Sweetwater County CERTS, as well as other volunteers from Sweetwater and Daggett Counties. Support from the Wyoming Guard will include the 84th Civil Support Team, Joint Task Force, the National Guard Response Force and the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability. In addition, members of the Wyoming Joint Force Headquarters Joint Operations Center personnel will be supporting the exercise from Cheyenne.
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