First Responders Run Evacuation Drill At 9/11 Museum
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Before most people had their first cup of coffee Sunday, hundreds of first responders had already completed a full-scale emergency drill in lower Manhattan.
About 250 members of the FDNY, NYPD and Port Authority participated in a simulated evacuation of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, WCBS 880's Monica Miller reported.
FDNY Deputy Chief Mike McPartland said the drill started around 4 a.m. and was wrapped up three hours later.
McPartland said all the different agencies seemed to be on the same page in the event of a mass evacuation.
"Everybody worked as a unified command," McPartland said.
"We did a small simulation of 150 people," he added. "But in reality, you could have 2,000, 3,000 people in this museum, so it would become a very big undertaking.
McPartland said there would be similar drills in the future.
"It gives us a base to work forward from, to try to use these drills as good practice in case the real thing happens," he said.
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