Mass casualty exercise planned

ere will be a mass casualty exercise taking place at the Saratoga Municipal Pool. The scenario will be a lightning strike.

According to John Zeiger, Carbon County Emergency Management Coordinator, this is only a training exercise to prepare emergency responders.

Zeiger discussed the hypothetical scenarios that have been done in the past. “I decided to go outside the box,” said Zeiger. “We are always doing hazardous materials — there were school shootings, there were accidents, so I decided it would be interesting to do a lightning strike down at the swimming pool because there are...