Monday, March 5, 2012

Detecting terrorism part of Guard drill

Things were going by the book for National Guard specialistsinvestigating a terrorist attempt to poison Roselle's water supplySunday morning. One of them tried to open the door of a buildingthat smoke was billowing from.

An alarm sounded, and the drill was over. "You guys wereshredded," an evaluator told the crew. Not really, but the alarm wasstanding in for a booby trap a real terrorist could have set.

It ended the first test firefighters, hazardous materialsspecialists and other emergency crews took with a new National Guardteam specially formed to deal with the terrorism.

RAID - the Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection team - can becalled into service by …

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