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Officials in Western North Dakota County Train for Disaster

Officials in a western North Dakota county are fine-tuning their response plans for a possible oilfield accident. Emergency management personnel and law enforcement from the county staged what was dubbed a “full-scale oil explosion exercise” on Saturday. It was based …

Mock City for Disaster Training Nears Completion in Georgia

When Houston County District Attorney George Hartwig was a police officer in Florida many years ago, the closest he came to realistic training was turning the lights off in the shooting range with only a flashing blue light to see …

California Counterterrorism Summit Preps for Mock Zombie Invasion

Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special operations …