More than 1,200 emergency responders from across the state are participating in what's believed to be the largest disaster exercise ever held in Indiana.
The exercise Monday through Friday at southern Indiana's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center will include local emergency responders, emergency management officials and private agencies from more than 60 Indiana counties, plus officials participating at sites elsewhere.
Indiana Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Emily Norcross says the participants will respond as if a major earthquake has occurred. She says it's the first ever national-level exercise designed around a natural disaster. The White House will direct the event.
The other states participating are Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Teams from Ohio and Wisconsin also are participating at Muscatatuck, about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
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