Tonawanda/Niagara Falls Disaster?
No, I am not speaking about the tons and tons of illegally dumped uranium and other radioactive wastes from the Manhattan Project. However this story does involve the Military. I have gotten wind of a training excercise which will be happening in the area over the next few weeks. Basically the Military will be taking over many locations in the area to do a mock disaster relief / rescue operation. Several locations will be involved in this massive search and rescue operation. Some such sites will be the Spalding Fiber location, where bodies (unknown if their alive volunteers or training dummies) will be buried in piles of rubble. Search dogs and military search and rescue teams will work to find the bodies, and recover them. Other sites will range from the Tonawanda Fire Towers to various other abandoned sites located in North Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, and Lewiston. The general storyline is that on November 1st, 2009, a earthquake will occur in the area, destroying the City of Tonawanda's only (non existing) hospital. 1,200 Military Troops, and approximately 400 civilian responders will be called in in large convoys to preform search and rescue of other sites which were destroyed by the mock earthquake. Sadly however, while apparently local agencies are welcomed to be involved, so far there has been no word from the military as to if such agencies will be involved or not. The Military will be setting up a command post, and will be using military vehicles and helicopters in this drill.