The IDF Home Front Command conducted a rescue-unit drill today in Israel's schools today. Command O.C. Yosef Mishlav, who observed the drill at Netivot Chaim, a yeshiva high school in Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem, said that the likelihood of rockets falling in Israel is not high. He said that the drill is an annual affair, and has nothing to do with the threat of a war in Iraq.
"Netivot Chaim looked like a military training camp today," Arutz-7's Haggai Seri reported, "with students wearing gas masks hurrying to protected areas - with the guidance of other specially-trained students. A fire truck was parked on the basketball court, with ladders reaching to the 2nd and 3rd floors, preparing to 'rescue' the wounded. Ambulances and plenty of modern rescue equipment were also on hand, for the use of the teachers and students who had been appropriately trained."
Seri noted that today's drill is the culmination and implementation of an educational program training the students to deal with various scenarios, including a chemical bomb strike. Deputy-Commander of the Home Front Command's Jerusalem area, Lt.-Col. Itai Peleg explained,
"We rehearsed a hit by a conventional rocket today, in the course of which we practiced dealing with fires breaking out and rescuing trapped students in various places, using ladders and rescue sleeves. We also practiced evacuating wounded children from the school with the school's emergency team, which is comprised of students and teachers, as well as MDA and Home Front Command medical personnel."
"Netivot Chaim looked like a military training camp today," Arutz-7's Haggai Seri reported, "with students wearing gas masks hurrying to protected areas - with the guidance of other specially-trained students. A fire truck was parked on the basketball court, with ladders reaching to the 2nd and 3rd floors, preparing to 'rescue' the wounded. Ambulances and plenty of modern rescue equipment were also on hand, for the use of the teachers and students who had been appropriately trained."
Seri noted that today's drill is the culmination and implementation of an educational program training the students to deal with various scenarios, including a chemical bomb strike. Deputy-Commander of the Home Front Command's Jerusalem area, Lt.-Col. Itai Peleg explained,
"We rehearsed a hit by a conventional rocket today, in the course of which we practiced dealing with fires breaking out and rescuing trapped students in various places, using ladders and rescue sleeves. We also practiced evacuating wounded children from the school with the school's emergency team, which is comprised of students and teachers, as well as MDA and Home Front Command medical personnel."