FRANCE: EMERGENCY SERVICES FROM SIX COUNTRIES HOLD 1ST EUROPE COMMUNITY CIVIL PROTECTION TRAINING EXERCISE FOR A CHEMICAL TERRORIST ATTACK

Record ID: 648608

  • Title: FRANCE: EMERGENCY SERVICES FROM SIX COUNTRIES HOLD 1ST EUROPE COMMUNITY CIVIL PROTECTION TRAINING EXERCISE FOR A CHEMICAL TERRORIST ATTACK
  • Date: 27th October 2002
  • Summary: (U3) CAMP DE CANJUERS, NEAR TOULON, FRANCE (OCTOBER 27, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS, INTERIOR OF CINEMA/BOMB BLAST/PEOPLE SCREAMING (2 SHOTS) 0.15 2. CLOSE UPS OF PEOPLE SCREAMING AND PUSHING 0.19 3. VARIOUS, SMOKE AND GAS IN THE CINEMA WITH PEOPLE SCREAMING AND SHOUTING (2 SHOTS) 0.31` 4. VARIOUS, MAN TRYING TO HELP "INJURED" 0.41 5. VARIOUS, PILE OF PEOPLE COLLAPSING ON EACH OTHER 0.43 6. WIDE/ PAN OF EXTERIOR OF CINEMA WITH EMERGENCY SERVICES AND MAN BEING TAKEN AWAY BY SECURITY/EMERGENCY 0.51 7. VARIOUS, " INJURED" PEOPLE OUTSIDE SIDE DOOR OF CINEMA LYING ON GROUND 0.57 8. CLOSE OF AN "INJURED " LEG 1.01 9. SMV PEOPLE SCREAMING 1.05 10. SLV FIRE RESCUERS TAKING AWAY " WOUNDED PEOPLE" 1.10 11. SLV EMERGENCY WORKER PUTTING LABELS ON " CASUALTIES" 1.16 12. SLV POLICE AND EMERGENCY WORKERS AT SITE 1.19 13. SMV " INJURED" MAN BEING HELPED AWAY BY FIREMAN AND MEDIC 1.26 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (French) COMMANDER OF THE FIRE BRIGADE MICHEL PERSOGLIO SAYING: "The Eurotox exercise is aimed at testing, in a real situation, the collaboration of the various European rescue services." 1.35 15. SLV RESCUERS WEARING MASKS ENTERING CINEMA, STEPPING PAST " CASUALTIES" ON GROUND 1.38 16. SMV RESCUERS WITH GAS MASKS CARRYING STRETCHERS 1.43 17. SLV RESCUER WORKERS LIFTING " CASUALTIES" ON TO STRETCHER 1.47 18. SCU SOUNDBITE) (English) SWEDISH EUROPEAN UNION OBSERVER STEPHAN ROSELL SAYING: "With the new threat of terrorism and the possibility of terror through chemical agents I think it's very important for different countries to come together in order to deal with these problems." 2.04 19. VARIOUS OF RESCUER BEING DRESSED IN ANTI-CHEMICAL OUTFIT (2 SHOTS) 2.12 20. SMV RESCUERS IN ANTI CHEMICAL WEAPONS SUITS WALKING TOWARDS CINEMA WATCHED BY MEDIA 2.17 21. SLV OF FIRE TRUCKS LEAVING SITE 2.27 22. SMV FIREMEN OPENING THE DOOR OF AN AMBULANCE 2.30 23. SLV "CASUALTY" ON TROLLEY BEING WHEELED TOWARDS DECONTAMINATION TENT 2.37 24. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (French) DOCTOR COLONEL PRUNET SAYING: "The people arriving in the decontamination centre will be undressed so that the particles which are on their clothes can be withdrawn. They will take a shower so that all contaminated particles disappear from their hair and their skin. With internal inhaled contamination, you have no way of decontaminating the patient that way. For those patients, we will give them an iodine treatment to proctect their thyroid." 3.08 25. VARIOUS, " CASUALTIES " BEING CARRIED INTO DECONTAMINATION TENT (4 SHOTS) 3.29 26. VARIOUS, " CONTAMINATED " PERSON BEING ATTENDED TO BY MEDICS IN ANTI CHEMICAL SUITS / SPRAYED WITH WATER TO CLEAN SKIN (4 SHOTS) 3.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th November 2002 12:00
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  • Location: CAMP DE CANJUERS,NEAR TOULON, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA1WO65COIB9N01U5YKBFZPNESZ
  • Story Text: Eight hundred emergency rescuers from six countries are
    participating in the first European Community Civil Protection
    exercise aimed at protecting citizens in the event of
    terrorist attacks involving radiological and chemical
    substances.



    The large-scale European civil protection exercise
    was held at the military camp of Canjuers, near Toulon, in
    France on Sunday (October 27).

    Organised by the European Commission the Eurotox exercise
    was a simulation of the consequences of a terrorist attack
    involving radiological and chemical fall-out.

    The event was for the treatment and evacuation of victims
    during a large-scale event and the scenario was a radioactive
    bomb exploded in a cinema affecting some 200 people.

    The rescue exercise was aimed at testing on-site medical
    care as well as decontamination and transport procedures
    implemented in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the
    United States.

    "The Eurotox exercise is aimed at testing, in a real
    situation, the collaboration of the various European rescue
    services," said Commander of the fre brigade, Michel
    Persoglio.

    This exercise brought together the civil protection,
    health, justice and military services.

    A group of 60 official observers from the European Union
    also took part in the event. Invited by the Commission, their
    aim was to observe but also to improve Community response
    methods when faces with new threats in the field of terrorism.

    "With the new threat of terrorism and the possibility of
    terror through chemical agents I think it's very important for
    different countries to come together in order to deal with
    these problems," Swedish European Union observer Stephan
    Rosall said.

    In addition to France, teams from five other European
    countries Austria, Spain, Greece, Italy and Sweden were also
    participating.

    Each provided assistance of 10 to 30 intervention experts,
    with proven experience in the field of combating CBRN
    (Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical) effects.

    "The people arriving in the decontamination centre will be
    undressed so that the particles which are on their clothes can
    be withdrawn. They will take a shower so that all contaminated
    particles disappear from their hair and their skin. With
    internal inhaled contamination, you have no way of
    decontaminating the patient that way. For those patients, we
    will give them an iodine treatment to proctect their thyroid,"
    Doctor Colonel Prunet said.

    Eight hundred lifesavers were involved in the exercise,
    that continue on Monday (October 28) including national,
    regional and European operational civil protection centres.

    More exercises, aimed at evacuating citizens in the event
    of an earthquake will be held in Italy in March 2003.

    CAH/


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