First responders, hospitals to hold mass casualty exercise with explosions, gunfire in Greene Co.
Soin Medical Center and Kettering Health Greene Memorial will be holding a full-scale mass casualty exercise with local first responders at Clark State College’s Greene Center Sunday afternoon.
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Kettering Health Police Department, Beavercreek Police Department, and Beavercreek Township Fire Department are set to join Soin Medical Center and Kettering Health Greene Memorial to participate in the mass casualty exercise.
The exercise is intended to test and evaluate the ability of medical centers and trauma programs to respond to a large influx of patients from high impact incident. The exercise will also test EMS and law enforcement’s response to a terrorist attack. Dayton Metropolitan Medical Response System will be developing and managing the incident, according to a spokesperson for the event.
The exercise is scheduled to take place at Clark State College’s Greene Center on Pentagon Boulevard from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Nearby residents and visitors can expect to hear loud noises such as explosions or gunshots during this time frame.
Participants posing as victims will be taken to two hospitals: Soin Medical Center on Pentagon Boulevard in Beavercreek and Kettering Health Greene Memorial on Monroe Drive in Xenia.
Officials reassured that real patient care would take precedence over the exercise.
