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FDNY AND THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS TO HOLD JOINT TRAINING EXERCISE
The New York City Fire Department and the United States Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (USMC C-BIRF) tomorrow will hold a full-scale joint training exercise at the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn. More than 200 FDNY members and U.S. marines will participate in this drill, which will simulate a fire on a ship with a radiation leak. The C-BIRF team and members of Fire Department’s Special Operations Command (SOC) will also respond to a collapse/confined space rescue aboard the ship.
Tomorrow’s exercise is the culmination of a week-long training session at the FDNY Training Academy where both the FDNY and USMC worked together to train in various tactical rescue situations, ranging from search and rescue, extrication, high-angle rescue and collapse/confined space rescue. Each topic covered during the week will play a vital role in tomorrow’s training exercise. This is the fourth joint training exercise between the FDNY and USMC since 1996.
WHO: |
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, Chief of Department Peter Hayden, Chief
of Operations Salvatore Cassano, Chief of Special Operations Command John
Norman; USMC Captain Thomas Door; and FDNY firefighters and U.S. Marines
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WHAT: |
Joint Training Exercise with FDNY and the United States Marine Corps
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WHERE: |
Red Hook Container Terminal
Van Brunt Street between Summit Place and Carroll Street, Brooklyn |
WHEN: |
Friday, September 23, 2005
All news media must arrive no later than 11:00 AM
Press Conference at 1:00 PM |
**Photo-Op**
Contact: Francis X. Gribbon and Seth E. Andrews (FDNY) (718) 999-2056
http://www.nyc.gov/fdny
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