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Fairfield Conducts Emergency Preparedness Exercise

The Town of Fairfield’s Emergency Management Team recently conducted a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise at the Jennings Beach parking lot. The exercise was a “Drive-Thru Point of Dispensing” (POD), in which the Center for Disease Control (CDC) provided antibiotic training bottles that were dispensed as if there had been an anthrax exposure involving a large number of people. With participation from the Fairfield Police, Fire, Public Works and Recreation Departments, the Health Department staff, along with volunteers from the Fairfield Easton Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and the Fairfield Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), set up and then operated the POD.

Fairfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau commented, “This exercise was another opportunity for the Town of Fairfield and our Health Department to practice emergency preparedness procedures to be better prepared to serve and protect the residents of Fairfield.”

The primary goal of the exercise was to train for and practice mass dispensing procedures in order to be better prepared in the event of a real life emergency. Those driving through the exercise and assisting in other roles included staff from area health departments: Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, Norwalk, Westport, Weston, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford and Meriden, as well as the Connecticut Department of Public Health, MRC and CERT members from Fairfield and neighboring communities.

For more photos of the event, go to the Fairfield Health Department’s Facebook page.

For additional info, contact Fairfield's Health Educator Santina Galbo, MS, CHES, at 203-256-3150 or sgalbo@fairfieldct.org

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