DRILL WILL TEST RESPONSE TO MOCK TRAIN DISASTER.Byline: Daily News A drill involving a mock train disaster and about 100 volunteers from various agencies is planned for this morning in Newhall. The Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La and Metrolink will lead the test of emergency response to a simulated train derailment derailment /de·rail·ment/ (de-ral´ment) disordered thought or speech characteristic of schizophrenia and marked by constant jumping from one topic to another before the first is fully realized. and fire inside the Newhall railroad tunnel in downtown Newhall. Emergency-response personnel will fight the fire and deal with other problems, including performing triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. on volunteers posing as the injured. Emergency response will include firefighters, Metropolitan Transit Authority personnel, Santa Clarita city workers, the county Sheriff's Department and the Wilson Ambulance Co. The Metrolink train engineer will pretend to be trapped in the locomotive and in need of extrication extrication Emergency medicine The process of removing a person from an entrapment, usually from a motor vehicle, often requiring the use of special tools. See Jaws of life. by firefighters. Skills in search, rescue and transportation of the injured will be tested. The emergency crews will use Hart Park as their command post. Most of the drill will take place inside the tunnel, which opens near the southern end of Pine Street in Newhall. The tracks through the tunnel are used daily by freight trains and the Metrolink passenger trains that run from Union Station in Los Angeles through the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. to the Antelope Valley. |
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