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'Doomsday' terror attack simulation in Lancashire (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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'Doomsday' terror attack simulation in Lancashire
8:00pm Sunday 13th February 2011 in Euxton
By Chris Gee, Reporter
DOOMSDAY SCENARIO Crew manager Chris Archer and firefighter Paul Swarbrick from Hyndburn fire station rescue actor Louise Eva
A TERROR attack on an aeroplane was the "doomsday scenario" created in Lancashire this weekend in one of the biggest emergency simulations ever staged in the region.
More than 150 fire officers and dozens of personnel from other emergency services were involved in the 15-hour operation which also involved the scenario that nuclear radiation had been released.
To ensure realism, an 80ft aircraft fuselage had been embedded by crane into a two storey industrial unit at the scene of the operation, Washington Hall Fire Training Centre, near Chorley.
Fire crews from throughout East Lancashire were called to the scene, including a specialist decontamination team from Burnley, one of only two in the county.
Around 40 "casualties", in gory makeup were employed to simulate victims of the incident and played their part to the full as screams could be heard among the staged fires and from within the aircraft.
Other fire services involved in the exercise, codenamed Operation Dakota, were Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Sellafield.
The Air Ambulance was also in attendance and another element of the day were two "fatalities", including a crash-test dummy which had been wedged high up in a tree.
One of the exercise directors on the day was Darryl Sturgess, who lives in Darwen and is a member of the urban search and rescue team.
He said: "This a massive challenge for all the services involved and our aim is for it to be as realistic as possible.
"All the teams involved had no prior knowledge that they would be doing this today.
"The circumstances we developed are as close as it could get to a worst case scenario and will help all the services train and prepare for major incidents."
The premise of the day was that terrorists attempted to hijack an aircraft carrying dignitaries and radioactive materials into Warton aerodrome.
Following resistance from passengers the plane crash-landed in Chorley.
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Comments (30)
8:17pm Sun 13 Feb 11
ste.g says...
8:35pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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mind control...doesn't exist.does it??????
9:33pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Dickiepayshey says...
and/or mixed up poster from Accy. :-)
10:01pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Good call says...
10:05pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...
10:06pm Sun 13 Feb 11
happycyclist says...
Land Rover crash-landed with 8 retards on board, releasing their toxic stupidity.
Two helicopters, 26 members of a mountain rescue team and a number of police units...
God help us if we ever had a real Doomsday scenario.
10:13pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...
10:13pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...
10:30pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Dickiepayshey says...
10:35pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
10:39pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...
11:01pm Sun 13 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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Whoever formed the Christian god, not the Jesus tale, advanced on the Torah by bringing fourth Akhenaton's direct communion tradition cancelling out the Temple of the priesthood and its eye for an eye, they resurrected the idea of love for all with forgiveness as the path to ascension.
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Seneca and Pliny have been presented as the authors of the New Testament, they say Nero killed them for it, one thing that is true at least according to official history, the killing of the two spawned a lot of reprisals and revenge between two camps of Roman elites, those of love and the psychopaths who love to kill and as such where pretty upset with a doctrine which cancelled out their blood ****.
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Today we have two paths, one of civil violence against Islam, or the old one of common sense and peace within our borders....Only the faces change, man still faces the same old conundrum, we just have a lot more weaponry today, or make that the psychos have all the weapons.....
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Here is a thesis to ponder :
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http://lifeinthemix2
.co.uk/EGYPT.html
11:12pm Sun 13 Feb 11
useyourhead says...
7:51am Mon 14 Feb 11
Chris P Bacon says...
8:14am Mon 14 Feb 11
frank says...
why do these things always reek of cheap publicity stunt.
9:43am Mon 14 Feb 11
jack daniels says...
It's nice to see that the emergency services are continuing to develop their skills and experience so that they don't just stand around going 'Duhh' when something big and bad happens. Train hard - fight easy springs to mind.
10:30am Mon 14 Feb 11
Jerzei Balowski says...
11:14am Mon 14 Feb 11
midas says...
11:38am Mon 14 Feb 11
time.team says...
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But isn’t it ironic to have had a plane crash practice event here in Blackburn. Then again if anything did happen like the case at Locherbie where 270 people were killed just remember what the end result of that was. Ask Jack Straw who seems at the moment to be clearing up all of the things that he could have done something about when he had the power to do so. Another blunder hidden under mountains of legal technical ramblings that only he seems so able to deliver. But like the Iran issue to go to war, despite all of the technical details we’re all able to see the wood for the trees!
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But did the murderer Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi remember to send Jack a Valentines card. Hope so?
3:13pm Mon 14 Feb 11
useyourhead says...
4:40pm Mon 14 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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I know i shouldn't present real technical wisdom for you monkeys....just thought I would test you, think of it like mastermind with the prize being a kick in the eye for the Nazi Barstuards as they fail to activate fascism in mi country....
5:30pm Mon 14 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...
7:17pm Mon 14 Feb 11
jack daniels says...
Can I also point out that times new roman is difficult to read at the best of times, and when create sentence structures like you do, it becomes very difficult to read what you have written.
If there's a prize, can i have a banana?
10:04pm Mon 14 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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they are old sites my good man, the main site has been assassinated. As for my sentence structure it has to have appeared in the shift from musician to journalist, and of course hitting shells with skins on is my usual MO, so I am having to learn as I go.
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10:07pm Mon 14 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
8:48am Tue 15 Feb 11
jack daniels says...
so you hang around with a band then?
sorry, i know its a bad joke, couldn't help myself!
10:10am Tue 15 Feb 11
now in the north says...
Ive never been afraid of any race of people before and grew up in a mainly muslim area and went to a school where only 9 of us were white but due to the media, I felt afraid that this guy might want to blow us up as we drove along.
Goodness knows how those who are not aware of the "Media Control" manage to get by with out it dominating every aspect of their lives.
They seem to think that all beings who do not think like them are brainwashed, I wonder who made them think that?
They are so protective of a world that will take all their freedom in exchange for promised, but not actual, protection. Sadly, when the protection fails, which it always will, the excuses flow and the blame comes thick and fast.
I feel they need to protect their world as they see it though, its all they know. It would be a scary place without it.
I sleep well at night but for the baby. Neither money worries nor fear of the unknown will keep me from my slumber! What we need is provided, if we know the difference between want and need.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path - Mahatma Gandhi
5:26pm Tue 15 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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what I see is very difficult to translate into words, the reason I chose music.....
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now in the north
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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path - Mahatma Gandhi
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that would be my experience of life exactly....there is studying the message and understanding the message, when you understand the message you become the message
5:32pm Tue 15 Feb 11
Lifeinthemix says...
so you hang around with a band then?
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I was in bands for many years, the final act ending in 1993. From there I moved to the club scene promoting managing etc, the last venture was as a studio producer - writer, but the journo thingy has taken over.....
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A couple of tasters :
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http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=66hhEzArc
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bedded
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http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=HWe7nYMsT
lA&feature=player_em
bedded
12:00am Thu 17 Feb 11
Graham Hartley says...