FA-HUM Exercise in El Salvador - as real as it gets [Image 7 of 16]

EL SALVADOR

05.12.2014

Photo by Lt. Col. Carol McClelland 

U.S. Army South

Members of El Salvador's Green Cross, a local medical response agency, assist a "victim" during a field training exercise May 12. The scenario involved a school bus colliding with a van that carried hazardous materials on the busy Pan American Highway. The victims were actually 25 police cadets in training and the exercise tested El Salvadorian first-responders' response time, procedures and collaboration with other agencies. FA-HUM, a disaster preparedness and humanitarian two-week exercise takes place in El Salvador from May 5-16. The U.S. Southern Command-sponsored exercise includes command post and field exercises for not only El Salvador but about a dozen other countries from Central, North and South America. Army South is the executive agent.

• Date Taken: 05.12.2014
• Date Posted: 05.13.2014 15:38
• Photo ID: 1335430
• VIRIN: 140512-A-VY811-0007
• Resolution: 3456x2304
• Size: 3.04 MB
• Location: SV