Police departments from Kettering Health, Beavercreek and Beavercreek Twp. will participate in the exercise, as well as area fire departments.
Participants posing as victims will be taken to Soin Medical Center at 3535 Pentagon Blvd. in Beavercreek and Kettering Health Green Memorial at 1141 N. Monroe Dr. in Xenia. Preparation will start in the morning, with the active part of the exercise starting around 1 p.m.
The Dayton Metropolitan Medical Response Team created the exercise, which aims to test and evaluate how medical centers and trauma programs respond to large increase in patients from a traumatic event. It also tests law enforcement and EMS response to a terrorist incident.
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