CANTON \u2014 The East Texas Council of Governments, in partnership with Regional Advisory Council Trauma Service Area Regions F and G, the City of Canton, and Van Zandt County Emergency management, will conduct a Full Scale, Regional Safety Exercise today through Thursday. This 72-hour, around the clock event, based in Canton, will begin this morning at 7:00. It will incorporate local and regional emergency responders; local, regional, and state public works agencies; private business partners; and various state\/federal agencies and over 60 participating hospitals through the Regional Advisory Council Trauma Service Area Regions F and G and EMTF Region 4. Counties involved are Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Wood, Anderson, Trinity, Shelby, Gregg, Panola, Houston, Freestone, Upshur, Franklin, and Camp.<\/p>\n
The multi-day exercise, involving 400 to 500 participants, will test many areas of emergency management and medical response. Scenarios during the 3 day exercise will include a structural collapse, a dive rescue recovery, a confined space-low angle\/high angle rescue, a dam break, a hazardous material spill a wide area search and rescue, medical special needs sheltering and two active shooter enactments. <\/p>\n
Emergency response will be staged in Canton and the surrounding area. The exercise will begin with a scenario of a tornado that touches down in various locations across Van Zandt County. Emergency responders will attend to a structural collapse scenario at Tyler Pipe. A dive rescue recovery and a search and rescue operation will be conducted by area CERT teams at the Canton City Lake \u201cMill Creek Reservoir\u201d located at 410 Arnold Paul Road in Canton. A mass fatalities\/casualties scenario will be conducted at the First Monday Trade Grounds theoretically caused by a tornado during First Monday Trade Days. There will be a active shooter scenarios held at the Van Zandt County Courthouse and also at Canton Trade Days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CANTON \u2014 The East Texas Council of Governments, in partnership with Regional Advisory Council Trauma Service Area Regions F and G, the City of Canton, and Van Zandt County Emergency management, will conduct a Full Scale, Regional Safety Exercise today through Thursday. This 72-hour, around the clock event, based in Canton, will begin this morning … Continue reading Regional Full Scale Safety Exercise in East Texas This Week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:41:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221906"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222782,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221906\/revisions\/222782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}