Beware earthquakes...
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Parksy
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what a farce , and a waste of the taxpayers money , if they can waste there time on this exercise then they must be overstaffed , any body who wants to know about this goverments money wasting schemes just type in your web browser tax payers alliance
In answer to the last poster (who's name I can't see whilst I'm posting this), Fire and Rescue Services across the UK regularly have to participate in various training exercises, a few are major incident scenarios like this one. Although we don't tend to suffer from devastation caused by earthquakes in this country, that training will have provided invaluable skills to firefighters and senior officers which could be used in other real life incidents. I thought the funds came from the European Union for this particular exercise.
You may not be aware of this but 80 incident response units (IRU's) have been provided across the country at a cost of £54m. Most were fully operational from 2004 onwards. Regular major incident training days are held over the country to keep ff's and senior officers' skills up to date. The vehicles are required to provide a mass decontamination facility at the scene of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident, whether as a result of terrorist action or industrial accident. The training days involve other agencies (obviously) and have actors playing the roles of casualties.
It's quite common for fire services to link together when carrying out unusual exercises such as the one on the clip, it's also not unusual for fire services in the UK to share their expertise and knowledge with other countries and vice versa.
Did you know that some fire services have large model animals with flexible joints such as horses? Very useful for new recruits who haven't experienced trying to get a panicking/badly injured horse out of certain situations.
As much as I detest this government myself, don't knock training exercises which will benefit emeregency services personnel and ultimately the person on the street which one day, god forbid, might even be you or I. (Actually I doubt if the current government was in power when this was all organised as it would have taken months to plan).
Lisa
You may not be aware of this but 80 incident response units (IRU's) have been provided across the country at a cost of £54m. Most were fully operational from 2004 onwards. Regular major incident training days are held over the country to keep ff's and senior officers' skills up to date. The vehicles are required to provide a mass decontamination facility at the scene of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident, whether as a result of terrorist action or industrial accident. The training days involve other agencies (obviously) and have actors playing the roles of casualties.
It's quite common for fire services to link together when carrying out unusual exercises such as the one on the clip, it's also not unusual for fire services in the UK to share their expertise and knowledge with other countries and vice versa.
Did you know that some fire services have large model animals with flexible joints such as horses? Very useful for new recruits who haven't experienced trying to get a panicking/badly injured horse out of certain situations.
As much as I detest this government myself, don't knock training exercises which will benefit emeregency services personnel and ultimately the person on the street which one day, god forbid, might even be you or I. (Actually I doubt if the current government was in power when this was all organised as it would have taken months to plan).
Lisa
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