Photos: Mass Casualty Exercise at Valley Medical Center

Emergency workers donned hazmat suits, complete with cooling vests to beat the heat, outside of the emergency room at Valley Medical Center to help triage a number of “patients” during a Mass Casualty Exercise. The patients consisted of local nursing school students who were acting out their symptoms, including one screaming for their daughter, and several dummies, a few inflated that workers had to decontaminate.

The disaster exercise simulated an explosion at a major sporting event here in the Bay Area...