{"id":7817,"date":"2011-05-12T01:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2011-05-12T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T06:25:21","slug":"agencies-hold-disaster-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/agencies-hold-disaster-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Agencies hold disaster drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7818\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7818 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/EMA-tabletop-exercise-in-Delphos-5-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over two dozen area officials met in Delphos today for a tabletop exercise involving a train derailment in Delphos that included a chemical fire in a populated area. The training hosted by the Emergency Management Agencies in Van Wert Allen counties, tested how agencies would be notified and respond to such an emergency, and how evacuation of schools, nursing homes and the general population would be conducted. Van Wert County EMA Director Rick McCoy said Van Wert participants included the Van Wert County Health Department, Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Van Wert County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Ohio Department of Transportation and Van Wert County EMA. Agency counterparts from Allen County also participated in the drill, along with several Delphos officials and agencies. The drill was hosted at the Delphos Fire Clubhouse and was evaluated by staff from the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. McCoy said it was a very good test of multiple agencies coming together from two different Counties and sharing emergency actions and plans in a large scale incident. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 16:14:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}