Pueblo County Fire Chiefs to hold Mass Casualty Incident Exercise Aug. 17
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO)-- The Pueblo County Fire Chiefs will be holding a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) on to test the Pueblo County MCI plan created in 2019.
According to the City of Pueblo, the exercise is scheduled to start at approximately 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 17, and will end in the early afternoon.
Around 75 people from more than a dozen first-response agencies in Pueblo County will participate in the exercise.
Officials with the City of Pueblo state the MCI exercise scenario will involve a simulated railway accident, as well as a bus accident, that will require the activation of the Emergency Operation Center, Pueblo County fire agencies, and local hospitals.
City officials are alerting the public that they may see exercise-related activity in the downtown area near Midtown Shopping Center.
The responders may be dressed in full protective equipment while mock accident victims will receive realistic looking makeup. Emergency equipment and vehicles will also be deployed to the scene as well as Parkview Health Systems main hospital and St. Mary Corwin Hospital. Helicopters may also be present in the area during the exercise.
For more information on the exercise contact Operations Deputy Chief of the City of Pueblo Fire Department Chris Harner at 719-553-2823 or Fire Chief of Beulah Fire Protection and Ambulance District and Exercise Director Bryan Ware at 719-485-2367.
