NYC practices emergency response to nuclear explosion

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Source: Associated Press

The voice over the speakers at New York City’s emergency command center calmly stated the unthinkable: a nuclear explosion had gone off in Times Square.

More than 100,000 people are feared to have died instantly. A massive radiation cloud is being blown north by the wind, toward Westchester County and Connecticut. The city’s subway system has been shut down and the region’s cellphone service has largely failed.

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The nightmare scenario was part of a region-wide training exercise that was conducted Wednesday by the city’s Office of Emergency Management to rehearse communications with the federal government and local law enforcement agencies in New York and New Jersey.

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All of the city agencies have representatives under one roof, with direct links to the power companies, the transit system and Washington. In the drill on Wednesday, portions of which were open to the press, Esposito helped conduct a conference call with state officials as to the best way to decontaminate citizens exposed to radiation.

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Read more: http://www.oneidadispatch.com/general-news/20141022/nyc-practices-emergency-response-to-nuclear-explosion

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1. Disaster drill at Brooklyn OEM preps for nuclear blast in Manhattan

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/10/22/disaster-drill-brooklyn-oem-preps-nuclear-blast-manhattan

Disaster drill at Brooklyn OEM preps for nuclear blast in Manhattan
Planning for the worst
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
October 22, 2014 - 5:09pm

How would the New York City and its regional neighbors react if a nuclear device went off in Midtown Manhattan?

New York City’s Office of Emergency Management ran a simulated disaster drill on Wednesday in Downtown Brooklyn to evaluate how the city’s responders could coordinate with neighboring counties and states in handling a radiological catastrophe.

Officials from local, state, and federal agencies along with private entities like the Red Cross filled the computer and media-filled Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

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In Wednesday’s scenario, one participant estimated the number of injured patients to be roughly a half million.

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The RCPT for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania named the drill – one of 15 scenarios they’ve devised -- the Trinity Exercise. The exercise is actually headed up by a private contractor, Silvestri said -–but one the city has worked with for years.

The exercise is the first of its kind in the tri-state area and included the activation of EOCs in New York City, Hudson County, Union County, Morris County and Bergen County.

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2. This Is What Happens if a Nuclear Bomb Explodes in Times Square

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141022/downtown-brooklyn/this-is-what-happens-if-nuclear-bomb-explodes-times-square

This Is What Happens if a Nuclear Bomb Explodes in Times Square
By Sybile Penhirin on October 22, 2014 5:24pm

DOWNTOWN — A mock homemade nuclear bomb built by terrorists just went off in Times Square. About 100,000 people are killed right away, and glass flies everywhere while the intense flash of light from the explosion blinds thousands of drivers.

People run in all directions as debris mixed with nuclear radiation forms a mushroom-shaped plume of fallout.

This is the scenario dozens of city and state agencies worked with Wednesday as part of a one-day drill meant to assess communication and logistics efficiency between emergency operating centers in the tri-state area in the case of a nuclear terrorist attack in New York City.

“The overarching goal is to see how we are all talking to each other in all the different agencies because we’re all at different locations. How can we manage a terrorist attack on a regional level? How do we get people out of the city? How do we feed them, decontaminate them and shelter them, how do we get the message out when the power is down? ” said Paula Carlson, New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) deputy director of training.

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3. Where are the zombie pictures?

I mean it is almost Halloween.

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4. Here's a picture of a zombie with 12 toes

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/yucca-mountain/2014/10/16/return-of-the-yucca-dump-zombie.html