What would happen if a couple of guys exploded a backpack bomb of an unidentified gas inside one of the AMC movie theatres at the Eden Prairie Center? Who would respond? How would they respond?
That’s exactly the scenario our Police, Fire, and EMS staffs practiced yesterday at the Eden Prairie Center. Yesterday was Sunday. We met at the Eden Prairie Center at 5:30 a.m. and the drill started around 6:00 a.m. The whole exercise had to be done by 10:00 a.m. to allow the Eden Prairie Center to re-open to the public. In addition to the Eden Prairie responders, we also included public safety people from Minnetonka, Hopkins, Edina, Bloomington, and Hennepin County. It was a true Police-Fire-EMS joint training operation.
I know that Eden Prairie Chief of Police Dan Carlson is going to be writing about the event at his weblog, so I will not go into much further than this. But I will say this: We are well served in Eden Prairie by our police, fire and EMS professionals. As a civilian observer of the events of yesterday I will tell you that it was an impressive sight to see our people in action. They are very good at what they do; and what they do is very important to the quality of life in Eden Prairie.
Thanks.
