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New York City rehearses for next terror strike (Updated)
Hundreds of firefighters and police swarmed Ground Zero Sunday, the site where the World Trade Center once stood, in the largest security exercise here since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
As part of an elaborate dress rehearsal for a possible future terror strike, rescue workers exploded simulated bombs in a commuter train tunnel linking Manhattan to neighboring New Jersey, burrowed beneath the Hudson River.
“Full-scale exercises like today’s give us an opportunity to practice how to integrate the vast response resources available in New York City and establish a command structure under the Citywide Incident Management System,” said Joseph Bruno, commissioner at the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
As the tunnel filled with smoke, scores of firefighters wearing oxygen masks practiced maneuvers to rescue some 700 to 800 passengers — the number who might be expected to become stranded along the vital commuter line in the event of a real disaster.
In fact, there were about 150 volunteers playing the role of passengers aboard the train early Sunday, usually a time of light travel along the city’s commuter train line.
The simulation closed to the public the train station at the World Trade Center, which links southern Manhattan and the New Jersey town of Newark.
Several streets in lower Manhattan were also closed to pedestrians and vehicular traffic as emergency vehicles, with lights flashing and sirens blaring, filled the city roadways.
The scenario played out early Sunday simulates an explosion that does not cause major damage to the tunnel, but causes a loss of power to the train and an interruption in communications.
The workers drilled their response to simulated blasts on two separate train cars shortly after 8:00 am (1200 GMT), in an exercise lasting about two hours.
New York’s deputy mayor for operations, Edward Skyler, said the elaborate drill would help harmonize emergency operations among various agencies across the city.
“Today’s exercise was particularly important because it demonstrated the commitment our emergency personnel are making to training and to cooperation among both city agencies and other parts of government,” he said.
Skyler added a few words of praise for the ambulance workers, rescuers and police often referred to here as “New York’s Finest.”
“I am always impressed by the professionalism of our public safety personnel respond to challenging emergencies,” he said.
New York is still scarred by the September 11 attacks in which Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked two commercial planes and slammed them into the World Trade Center, destroying the iconic twin towers.
Just under 3,000 people were killed in the attacks in which two other airliners were also hijacked, one slamming into the side of the Pentagon and the other crashing into a Pennsylvania field after passengers overpowered the hijackers.
Reconstruction at Ground Zero, where the hijacked airliners destroyed the Twin Tower skyscrapers, has barely begun. Meanwhile, the area remains under high security.
Last month office workers near Ground Zero panicked when one of President Barack Obama’s official planes flew low over the site and the nearby Statue of Liberty for what the White House said was a photo shoot.
AFP
Emergency lights flashed in the early-morning chill, streets were sealed off, and within minutes, firefighters and police officers had raced through the smoky PATH tunnel beneath the Hudson River to reach the darkened train. They quickly began evacuating the 150 passengers, many with red smears on their faces and bodies. Some were put in steel carts and wheeled back to the station at the World Trade Center.
And the officials running the operation on Sunday morning made sure that nobody thought it was the real thing.
Operation Safe PATH 2009, an exercise involving about 800 emergency workers from multiple agencies, coordinated a response to a simulated explosion aboard a PATH train.
The drill emphasized the need for the agencies to work side by side on both first aid and intelligence gathering, said Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno of the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
Officials were aware of the possible sensitivity of residents to the sight of flashing red lights and squadrons of emergency workers at ground zero. That concern was amplified three weeks ago, after office workers rushed into the streets when they saw one of the planes used as Air Force One flying over Lower Manhattan, Staten Island and Jersey City, accompanied by fighter jets, in what turned out to be a photo session.
Mr. Bruno said that scare highlighted the need for advance notice of Sunday’s drill. Announcements were sent to the news media, community boards, and to those who have signed up to receive alerts from the city’s emergency-notification system.
“That particular incident pointed out the need for people to know as much as possible,” Mr. Bruno said. “We would not want folks to wake up and see all this equipment and wonder.”
Police officers were stationed behind sawhorses, telling pedestrians there was a drill and diverting them away.
With PATH service shut down for much of the morning, a train was positioned about 1,200 feet into the tunnel on a westbound track. Smoke machines were activated and about 150 volunteers were made up to look bloodied and injured: a glass shard jutted from a forehead; a forearm was scraped raw. They then took seats on the train, with other seats occupied by mannequins.
The “explosions” occurred about 8 a.m.
The security of the PATH trains and tunnels has long been a concern. There are about 250,000 passenger trips through the PATH system each weekday, with 50,000 trips through the station at ground zero alone.
In 2006, a preliminary draft of an analysis done for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and provided to The New York Times, found that the four tubes of the rail system were structurally fragile and that a bomb explosion could flood parts of the system within hours.
Chris Gilbride, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management, would not comment on the 2006 report, but said the “exercise was designed so the explosion did not breach the tunnel.”
Most of the drill’s participants were able to walk out to the street, but 20 victims were considered “critically injured” and had to be wheeled out on the kind of aluminum rail carts that were used in London after a 2005 bombing there. The carts had never been used in New York, said Chief Joseph Pfeifer, of the Fire Department’s counterterrorism unit.
Once outside, the volunteers were questioned by detectives for intelligence gathering.
“If we are going to make mistakes, we want to make them here,” said Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for operations.
When the two-hour exercise ended about 10 a.m., pedestrians mingled with the volunteers and officers in full gear. One elderly couple snapped photographs. A girl passed a bloodied volunteer on West Broadway.
“I was like, ‘What was going on?’ People were coming out with fake bruises,” said Iman Hayes, 12. “It was shocking and surprising.”
Dr. Anthony Lyon, a 35-year-old physician who lives nearby, sauntered through the throng of firefighters, with his son Jonah on his shoulders. He said he was not surprised by the sight of Sunday’s drill, for one simple reason: “Because of where we are.”
The New York Times
WTC emergency drill evokes memories of Sept. 11
NEW YORK -- It was an emergency drill, yet the scene of hundreds of firefighters, police officers and other first responders hustling around the World Trade Center site Sunday evoked the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Firefighters carried oxygen tanks, hoses and heavy axes into an underground train station, while police and other emergency personnel helped those playing injured - all part of a large disaster response exercise at ground zero.
More than 800 first responders participated in Sunday's mock terrorist attack, which simulated an explosion on a New Jersey-bound PATH commuter train in a tunnel. The police, firefighters and other emergency personnel joined about 150 volunteers, who posed as injured passengers smudged with grime and fake blood.
The hundreds of first responders represented the largest police and firefighter presence at the trade center site since the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. The purpose of the drill was to improve interagency cooperation in the event of a real disaster.
"The motto for today is: You can never be too prepared," said Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs area transit hubs and owns the trade center site. "We will evaluate how well we did prepare, how well we performed, find wherever we did make mistakes and how we can improve."
The two-hour drill recalled the July 7, 2005, bombings on the London subway system more than the 2001 attack on the twin towers.
In the drill, two bombs went off at 8:01 a.m. on a train in the tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey.
"Smoke filled the tunnel, and we had some 700 to 800 passengers on this train," said Joseph Bruno, New York City's commissioner of emergency management.
PATH service was suspended during the exercise, and streets around the trade center site were blocked off.
Participating agencies included New York City's police and fire departments and its Office of Emergency Management and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as the police department of the Port Authority, which operates the PATH trains.
"The main thing we're trying to evaluate is the ability of all these agencies to work together," Bruno said.
Poor communication and jurisdictional infighting between the police and fire departments impeded rescue efforts when the twin towers were struck in 2001, and Bruno said he was confident that the departments are better at working together now.
"I think we are at a totally different place than we were at the time of that incident, and that's good," he said.
Firefighters went into the PATH tunnel to extinguish fires caused by the drill's explosions and to rescue passengers. There were 10 fake fatalities. Most of the injured passengers were able to walk out of the station, but about 20 were carried out on red stretchers.
Chief Joseph Pfeifer, head of counterterrorism for the Fire Department of New York, said firefighters used lightweight aluminum carts that fit onto train tracks to transport the most severely injured.
He said the carts were developed after the 2005 London bombings because "it's very labor intensive to carry someone out."
Other drills staged since the 2001 terror attacks in New York City have included a simulated response to a hazardous chemical spill and an explosion on an Amtrak train at Penn Station.
"If we're going to make mistakes we want to make them here, we want to learn from them, we want to build them into our plans, so when there is a real situation we respond appropriately and all the kinks in the system have been worked out," said Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler.
Richard Falkenrath, the police department's deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, added, "It's an important thing to be doing, and we will learn a lot of lessons from it I have no doubt."
Officials bought television ads and plastered train stations with posters to warn downtown Manhattan residents of the drill. The warnings for those in the area came after a Department of Defense-arranged flyover by a jet above downtown Manhattan last month panicked thousands of Wall Street workers and residents.
Bruno said the flyover "pointed out the need for people to know as much as possible."
"We would not want folks to wake up here and see all this equipment and wonder," he said.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
As part of an elaborate dress rehearsal for a possible future terror strike, rescue workers exploded simulated bombs in a commuter train tunnel linking Manhattan to neighboring New Jersey, burrowed beneath the Hudson River.
“Full-scale exercises like today’s give us an opportunity to practice how to integrate the vast response resources available in New York City and establish a command structure under the Citywide Incident Management System,” said Joseph Bruno, commissioner at the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
As the tunnel filled with smoke, scores of firefighters wearing oxygen masks practiced maneuvers to rescue some 700 to 800 passengers — the number who might be expected to become stranded along the vital commuter line in the event of a real disaster.
In fact, there were about 150 volunteers playing the role of passengers aboard the train early Sunday, usually a time of light travel along the city’s commuter train line.
The simulation closed to the public the train station at the World Trade Center, which links southern Manhattan and the New Jersey town of Newark.
Several streets in lower Manhattan were also closed to pedestrians and vehicular traffic as emergency vehicles, with lights flashing and sirens blaring, filled the city roadways.
The scenario played out early Sunday simulates an explosion that does not cause major damage to the tunnel, but causes a loss of power to the train and an interruption in communications.
The workers drilled their response to simulated blasts on two separate train cars shortly after 8:00 am (1200 GMT), in an exercise lasting about two hours.
New York’s deputy mayor for operations, Edward Skyler, said the elaborate drill would help harmonize emergency operations among various agencies across the city.
“Today’s exercise was particularly important because it demonstrated the commitment our emergency personnel are making to training and to cooperation among both city agencies and other parts of government,” he said.
Skyler added a few words of praise for the ambulance workers, rescuers and police often referred to here as “New York’s Finest.”
“I am always impressed by the professionalism of our public safety personnel respond to challenging emergencies,” he said.
New York is still scarred by the September 11 attacks in which Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked two commercial planes and slammed them into the World Trade Center, destroying the iconic twin towers.
Just under 3,000 people were killed in the attacks in which two other airliners were also hijacked, one slamming into the side of the Pentagon and the other crashing into a Pennsylvania field after passengers overpowered the hijackers.
Reconstruction at Ground Zero, where the hijacked airliners destroyed the Twin Tower skyscrapers, has barely begun. Meanwhile, the area remains under high security.
Last month office workers near Ground Zero panicked when one of President Barack Obama’s official planes flew low over the site and the nearby Statue of Liberty for what the White House said was a photo shoot.
AFP
Emergency lights flashed in the early-morning chill, streets were sealed off, and within minutes, firefighters and police officers had raced through the smoky PATH tunnel beneath the Hudson River to reach the darkened train. They quickly began evacuating the 150 passengers, many with red smears on their faces and bodies. Some were put in steel carts and wheeled back to the station at the World Trade Center.
And the officials running the operation on Sunday morning made sure that nobody thought it was the real thing.
Operation Safe PATH 2009, an exercise involving about 800 emergency workers from multiple agencies, coordinated a response to a simulated explosion aboard a PATH train.
The drill emphasized the need for the agencies to work side by side on both first aid and intelligence gathering, said Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno of the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
Officials were aware of the possible sensitivity of residents to the sight of flashing red lights and squadrons of emergency workers at ground zero. That concern was amplified three weeks ago, after office workers rushed into the streets when they saw one of the planes used as Air Force One flying over Lower Manhattan, Staten Island and Jersey City, accompanied by fighter jets, in what turned out to be a photo session.
Mr. Bruno said that scare highlighted the need for advance notice of Sunday’s drill. Announcements were sent to the news media, community boards, and to those who have signed up to receive alerts from the city’s emergency-notification system.
“That particular incident pointed out the need for people to know as much as possible,” Mr. Bruno said. “We would not want folks to wake up and see all this equipment and wonder.”
Police officers were stationed behind sawhorses, telling pedestrians there was a drill and diverting them away.
With PATH service shut down for much of the morning, a train was positioned about 1,200 feet into the tunnel on a westbound track. Smoke machines were activated and about 150 volunteers were made up to look bloodied and injured: a glass shard jutted from a forehead; a forearm was scraped raw. They then took seats on the train, with other seats occupied by mannequins.
The “explosions” occurred about 8 a.m.
The security of the PATH trains and tunnels has long been a concern. There are about 250,000 passenger trips through the PATH system each weekday, with 50,000 trips through the station at ground zero alone.
In 2006, a preliminary draft of an analysis done for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and provided to The New York Times, found that the four tubes of the rail system were structurally fragile and that a bomb explosion could flood parts of the system within hours.
Chris Gilbride, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management, would not comment on the 2006 report, but said the “exercise was designed so the explosion did not breach the tunnel.”
Most of the drill’s participants were able to walk out to the street, but 20 victims were considered “critically injured” and had to be wheeled out on the kind of aluminum rail carts that were used in London after a 2005 bombing there. The carts had never been used in New York, said Chief Joseph Pfeifer, of the Fire Department’s counterterrorism unit.
Once outside, the volunteers were questioned by detectives for intelligence gathering.
“If we are going to make mistakes, we want to make them here,” said Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for operations.
When the two-hour exercise ended about 10 a.m., pedestrians mingled with the volunteers and officers in full gear. One elderly couple snapped photographs. A girl passed a bloodied volunteer on West Broadway.
“I was like, ‘What was going on?’ People were coming out with fake bruises,” said Iman Hayes, 12. “It was shocking and surprising.”
Dr. Anthony Lyon, a 35-year-old physician who lives nearby, sauntered through the throng of firefighters, with his son Jonah on his shoulders. He said he was not surprised by the sight of Sunday’s drill, for one simple reason: “Because of where we are.”
The New York Times
WTC emergency drill evokes memories of Sept. 11
NEW YORK -- It was an emergency drill, yet the scene of hundreds of firefighters, police officers and other first responders hustling around the World Trade Center site Sunday evoked the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Firefighters carried oxygen tanks, hoses and heavy axes into an underground train station, while police and other emergency personnel helped those playing injured - all part of a large disaster response exercise at ground zero.
More than 800 first responders participated in Sunday's mock terrorist attack, which simulated an explosion on a New Jersey-bound PATH commuter train in a tunnel. The police, firefighters and other emergency personnel joined about 150 volunteers, who posed as injured passengers smudged with grime and fake blood.
The hundreds of first responders represented the largest police and firefighter presence at the trade center site since the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. The purpose of the drill was to improve interagency cooperation in the event of a real disaster.
"The motto for today is: You can never be too prepared," said Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs area transit hubs and owns the trade center site. "We will evaluate how well we did prepare, how well we performed, find wherever we did make mistakes and how we can improve."
The two-hour drill recalled the July 7, 2005, bombings on the London subway system more than the 2001 attack on the twin towers.
In the drill, two bombs went off at 8:01 a.m. on a train in the tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey.
"Smoke filled the tunnel, and we had some 700 to 800 passengers on this train," said Joseph Bruno, New York City's commissioner of emergency management.
PATH service was suspended during the exercise, and streets around the trade center site were blocked off.
Participating agencies included New York City's police and fire departments and its Office of Emergency Management and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as the police department of the Port Authority, which operates the PATH trains.
"The main thing we're trying to evaluate is the ability of all these agencies to work together," Bruno said.
Poor communication and jurisdictional infighting between the police and fire departments impeded rescue efforts when the twin towers were struck in 2001, and Bruno said he was confident that the departments are better at working together now.
"I think we are at a totally different place than we were at the time of that incident, and that's good," he said.
Firefighters went into the PATH tunnel to extinguish fires caused by the drill's explosions and to rescue passengers. There were 10 fake fatalities. Most of the injured passengers were able to walk out of the station, but about 20 were carried out on red stretchers.
Chief Joseph Pfeifer, head of counterterrorism for the Fire Department of New York, said firefighters used lightweight aluminum carts that fit onto train tracks to transport the most severely injured.
He said the carts were developed after the 2005 London bombings because "it's very labor intensive to carry someone out."
Other drills staged since the 2001 terror attacks in New York City have included a simulated response to a hazardous chemical spill and an explosion on an Amtrak train at Penn Station.
"If we're going to make mistakes we want to make them here, we want to learn from them, we want to build them into our plans, so when there is a real situation we respond appropriately and all the kinks in the system have been worked out," said Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler.
Richard Falkenrath, the police department's deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, added, "It's an important thing to be doing, and we will learn a lot of lessons from it I have no doubt."
Officials bought television ads and plastered train stations with posters to warn downtown Manhattan residents of the drill. The warnings for those in the area came after a Department of Defense-arranged flyover by a jet above downtown Manhattan last month panicked thousands of Wall Street workers and residents.
Bruno said the flyover "pointed out the need for people to know as much as possible."
"We would not want folks to wake up here and see all this equipment and wonder," he said.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Comment by The Watchmen on May 17, 2009 at 4:29pm - Eric Jon Phelps on Greg Syzmanski's radio program on Friday, clearly stated that he felt that there would be a false flag attack during the summer.
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- Also check out: FBI Warns of Possible Terror Plot against New York City During Holiday Season
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Comment by RIMILITIA on May 17, 2009 at 3:54pm - Freedom friend,Thank you for the "heads up" I plan on attending the 9/11 protest if Alex Jones goes also......................................Charles
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