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Emergency services hone skills in preparation for when disaster strikes
By Alice MurphyMay 22, 2008
A crashed plane, seven flattened cars and dozens of injured casualties is a nightmare scenario.
The disaster situation Remenham, Taplow and Henley-on-Thames was faced head on by emergency services and local authorities during their biggest training exercise in 10 years.
And although the major incident, which was called Exercise Wilbur and took place on Sunday, was fictitious, emergency services including the police, ambulance and fire responded as if it was real.
They knew there would be a safety exercise, but not where it would be or what the accident was.
Exercise Wilbur was the second part of a £20,000 exercise organised for the emergency services to practise their response, co-ordination and communication in case a major incident really took place.
It was the result of 18 months of planning.
- Read more in this week's Wokingham Times.
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