Media Advisory: Montgomery County Law Enforcement Agencies, Fire/Rescue, Montgomery

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WHEN: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: Clarksburg High School Rocky Hill Middle School
22500 Wims Road 22401 Brick Haven Way
Clarksburg, MD 20871 Clarksburg, MD 20871

WHAT: A cooperative exercise which involves staging a full-scale response as though there was a public safety emergency inside Clarksburg High School.

The agencies and departments conducting this exercise want to alert the Clarksburg community to this public safety initiative. Beginning in the morning of Wednesday, August 1, and running through the afternoon, there will be law enforcement and public safety personnel and vehicles (to potentially include a helicopter) responding to Clarksburg High School. Lights and sirens will not be used by the officers and rescue vehicles responding.

At Clarksburg High School community members can expect to see officers armed with simulated weapons (no real weapons will be used) and emerge ...more


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