Photos By Mary Davidson
Quantico, Va. –– A disaster scenario where two helicopters collided in mid-air over Quantico Marine Corps Base played out Thursday morning.
One chopper crash landed and caught fire while the other made a hard landing, leaving rescue crews with at least 30 injured patients.
While it was only a drill, the training exercise was held to gauge how well crews on the base and rescue officials in surrounding Prince William and Stafford counties could respond to such a disaster.
The simulated crash site was in a field surrounded by trees, and representatives from Sentara Potomac Hospital, Stafford Hospital Center and the Naval Medical Clinic on base were just of few of the ones scheduled to participate.
Among the items being monitored during the event, communication between participating agencies, how quickly the agencies responded to the event and how well base officials worked to get word out to the public about the crash.
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