Mock bioterrorism attack "kills" two in upstate New York
Emergency Management Alert, April 26, 2005
A mock bioterrorism attack in upstate New York last week resulted in two "casualties" and "injury" to 10 others, reports The Rome Sentinel.
The scenario: A truck carrying aluminum chloride crashed into the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome. The aluminum chloride mixed with rain and produced a toxic gas that burned victims' airways, eyes, and skin.
At the scene, hazardous materials specialists decontaminated the victims. Rome Memorial Hospital admitted the victims, after decontaminating them again. Attack organizers threw a curveball at hospital staff when three victims, who escaped the original scene before the first decontamination, arrived at the hospital highly contaminated.
In addition to the two fatalities, four victims suffered from severe burns with airways that required insertion of tubes; three victims suffered serious burns with their breathing, which was complicated by hysteria; and three victims survived the episode with mild respiratory problems.
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