Boston not under attack this weekend

By adamg on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 1:51pm

Photo by Boston Office of Emergency Management.

Police, fire and emergency-medical crews from across the area have descended on various locations in Boston this weekend for drills on dealing with a variety of situations, from hostage-taking bank robbers at the Circle Cinema in Cleveland Circle to a hazmat/suspicious package situation on a Blue Line train at Bowdoin (above). So any gunfire you might hear? Chances are it's not real.

On the Blue Line. Photo by BFD.

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Boston EMS

By Confirmed on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 2:35pm.

You would think that the Police and Fire Departments would have included the City ambulance in this exercise.

EMS is involved

By adamg on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 2:53pm.

Photo of the back of an EMS participant. Local hospitals, too. I've added an EMS reference to the original post.

awww, that's so cute they get to play with their toys

By anon on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 3:04pm.

....which have all been gathering dust for the last ELEVEN years.

Couldnt be further from the

By brianjdamico on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 6:24pm.

Couldnt be further from the truth, at least a few times every year the hazmat equipment is put to use, same goes for the SWAT equipment.

Wouldn't it be ironic

By anon on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 9:47pm.

If there really WAS an attack, and everyone was too busy training for an attack to respond in time?

"what am I doing here??"

By John-W on Sun, 11/04/2012 - 6:10pm.

For some reason that photo in the Blue Line train reminds me of the sperm in "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (but were afraid to ask)."