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...Friday morning, the teaching hospitals were notified of the dirty bomb explosion. Their role in the drill was to assess the procedures in place for diagnosing and treating contaminated patients...
...main objective of the drill was to facilitate communication and cooperation among all emergency response agencies involved...
Over 50 agencies participated in the drill, including the Massachusetts National Guard, FBI, American Red Cross, United States Coast Guard and Harvard School of Public Health...
Prior to the drill, all the agencies gathered in a conference hall to perform a tabletop exercise, in which they ran through a fake dirty bomb scenario so that all involved could communicate and ask questions, according to Ventura...
Morash agreed that the drill was a success but said improvements will need to be made in order to improve the efficiency of the response to radiation emergencies...