Agencies team up for annual CSEPP exercises
Published 10:10 am Thursday, September 19, 2019
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Henry Branham, left, Clark County Emergency Management Director Gary Epperson and Winchester City Manager Matt Belcherdiscuss a matter during Wednesday's exercise in Clark County's Emergency Operations Center. (Photo by Fred Petke)
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Clark Regional Medical Center staff tend to a 'patient' who collapsed in line to be decontaminated as part of an annual training exercise. (Photo by Fred Petke)
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Dylan Reffett, a senior at George Rogers Clark High School, lays on the ground describing his symptoms to a medic during the CSEP exercise at Campbell Junior High School Wednesday. (Photo by Lashana Harney)
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Dozens of employees from Clark County’s emergency service agencies worked on mock decontamination sites at Campbell Junior High School Wednesday. (Photo by Lashana Harney)
All of Clark County’s emergency service agencies and about 150 volunteers were involved in the exercise Wednesday as well as Winchester Public Works, the Clark County Road Department and Clark Regional Medical Center. The annual exercise is organized through the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program and focuses on local responses in case of a release of nerve agents from the storage facility in Madison County. This year’s scenario did not directly involve Clark County, but Clark County Emergency Management Director Gary Epperson said there were side scenarios for the hospital and others to practice their decontamination procedures.