Ambulances were summoned to the scene for those requiring hospitalization. Later in the day, a state Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation search-and-rescue team, assisted by bloodhounds and drones from the division and a pair of West Virginia Army National Guard UH Lakota helicopters, searched the steep slopes and giant rhododendron thickets of a heavily wooded area.
Among those portraying lost flood victims in the exercise was Jennifer Reis, of Ravenswood, who said she planned to continue as a role-player in Vigilant Guard scenarios through Saturday. Virginia-based Human Domain Solutions LLC recruits, screens and applies wound-simulation makeup and prop clothing to role-players taking part in the exercises. Other calls have involved fawns stranded in swimming pools and full-grown deer who managed to enter household basements or become stuck in sewer plant sludge pits.
On Sunday, the animal-response team will take part in a still-water rescue exercise at Kanawha Falls, in a scenario involving flood-stranded animals, people stranded on rooftops, and helicopter rescues.
Vigilant Guard exercises scheduled for Saturday include swift-water rescue scenarios at Sweets Falls and Masons Branch, in the Gauley River, and a train derailment involving the release of hazardous materials at Belle.
Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, military observers from Peru, Oman and Qatar, personnel and equipment from more than 15 West Virginia fire departments and county emergency-services offices, as well as 10 state agencies. Rick Steelhammer is a features reporter.
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