* Santa Fe emergency-response teams will
hold a nuclear accident drill near the intersection of Airport
Road and NM 5999 on March 14. The drill will give citizens a
chance to see how a traffic accident involving nuclear waste
would be handled. The exercise will begin about 8 a.m.,
Saturday, March 14, and will last about two hours. A collision
will be simulated between a cement truck and a semi carrying Tru-
Pac containers.
Because it will occur outside the city limits, volunteer
firemen, not the city's paid firemen, will be the "first
responders," said Mary Ellen Carroll, the city's public
information officer. City, county, state, and federal agencies
will be called in, as well as the DOE, because of the imaginary
nuclear payload. Simulated injuries will be taken to St.
Vincents's emergency room.
The incident will have a 160-foot "hot zone," and bystanders
within it may be drafted into the scenario. Space will be
cordoned off for the media and spectators
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