emergency preparedness exercise

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go view the online video-coverage of the recently completed Northstar V exercise held in singapore over sunday last.

"Exercise Northstar V is a large scale emergency preparedness exercise conducted in Singapore on 8 January 2006. It involved 22 agencies and 2,000 emergency personnel. The exercise involved a simulated terrorist bomb attack on four MRT stations and one bus interchange ... The exercise is the largest civil emergency exercise ever staged in the country." [via Wikipedia]

heck! there's even a wiki-entry for that? and who says the garhmen ain't hip to the net, eh? *nyuknyuk*

anyways, im one of those sods who avoided did not have the chance to "participate" in the exercise ... and to be totally fair (*cough-cough*), i wonder not if it was just a giant-PR-exercise to the world/investors, nor if it was a advance due warning to "potential-terrorist-intentions/threats" (*coughcough*) ... i can only but imagine the amount of effort spent in planning and running it (like preparation for National Day like that *nudge-nudge* :p) and at the end of the day, i suppose it is a good thing (to be "prepared") lah ... altho i do wonder this: what if this happened for real? ... would "we" still be as calm and disconnected as "we" seem (ie: the folks involved as shown on video), when faced with actual collateral carnage and death? ... well, who am i to say, innit? i wasn't even there for the "dress-rehearsal" ... *heh*
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