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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vincent206: [QB] The Olympian newspaper has an article about the [URL=http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article191441419.html]emergency response to the December 18th Talgo derailment[/URL] near Mounts Road. [QUOTE]Christopher Barnard Sr., assistant chief of operations for Joint Base Lewis-McChord fire and emergency services, arrived at work near DuPont at 7:30 a.m. Monday when the shift was changing. Nothing serious had happened overnight, so Barnard was about to send out a message to his crew, essentially telling them to have a good day. Then at 7:38 a.m. an emergency call came in, requesting engine after engine after engine to respond, punctuated finally by “This is not a drill.” And that sent Barnard off and running, racing to the scene of an Amtrak train that had derailed on an Interstate 5 overpass, south of DuPont at Mounts Road. [/QUOTE]The emergency response teams did an excellent job handling the wreck. It takes a lot of planning to be ready for unexpected disasters and the local and state emergency disaster response teams were in action almost immediately. Quite a way to start a Monday morning. Overall I was impressed by the local media coverage of the accident, too. There were a few wild rumors and misinformation that circulated briefly but most of the local coverage relied on verified facts and focused on the human angle. One station had a reporter/photographer team that had been on the train between Seattle and Tacoma. They were the first media team to arrive at the wreck and did a great job of telling the story with the added perspective of having de-trained just 15 minutes before the accident. Another station relied on a reporter who rides Amtrak every weekend to take care of her elderly mother in Portland. In these times the media regularly takes a beating, but in this case, the media, along with the emergency responders, did a great job of handling the accident response. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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