Mike Hatch of Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, controller for the Mass Casualty disaster drill held Sunday at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, talks about procedures with physician assistant Tony Simpson and Dr. Robert Story, at right, who were tending a simulated-heart attack patient. The bleachers at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford collapsed in the drill scenario, overwhelming the hospital with trauma patients. At left are Waterford Fire Chief Adrien Morin and Waterford Assistant Chief Tom Murch, who are running the Alternate Care Facility at the high school. In back is Paris police officer, EMA director and school liaison officer Hartley “Skip” Mowatt. Nearly 50 students simulated injuries in the realistic drill.

More than 100 emergency and public safety officials
and volunteers took part in a mass-casualty training event in Norway and Paris over the weekend. Logistics Section Chief Jay Bernard, left, talks with Operations Section Chief Ray Seams of the Oxford County Incident Management Assistance Team. The two are standing in the communications trailer set up outside Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris. Dispatcher Joe Cormier is in the foreground and Gary Gilman of the Maine Amateur Radio Emergency Service is behind him.