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Fourteen public safety agencies will be coming together Saturday morning for a full-scale mass casualty incident drill coordinated by Johnson County’s Emergency Management Office.
The exercise begins at 7 a.m. and will take place at four locations. The primary site will be Owen Oil Tools on County Road 1000 near Godley. The other locations will be Texas Health Resources hospitals in Cleburne and Burleson, and Texas Health Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South.
In the wake of the disastrous explosion last April at the fertilizer plant south of Johnson County in West, followed a month later by a string of tornadoes that wreaked havoc on parts of Johnson County, Moore said, the county-wide drill will test Johnson County first responders’ ability to manage a mass-casualty incident. It will also, Moore said, give them the opportunity to test “all major functions of our emergency response systems.”
Moore said that the explosion in West and the tornadoes in May made it clear that in the event of such large-scale disasters, “no public safety department can do it all alone. When something like that happens, we all have to come together to respond effectively.”
“We have a great network of public safety officials and agencies here in Johnson County,” Moore said. “Doing a drill like this allows us to come together to make sure we can work together to respond