By C1 Staff
PICKNEYVILLE — The Perry County Jail practiced its emergency evacuation for the possibility of a tornado strike.
According to The Southern, over 40 actors and players pretended to be inmates so law enforcement and healthcare professionals could practice moving them from the jail to a nearby hospital.
Each was done up with makeup to simulate injuries that would need to be evaluated in triage before being moved to a hospital.
“From my observations, I think things went pretty good,” David Searby, Perry County emergency coordinator, said. “You’re always going to find little things. We also found things with the exercise that we could have done differently.”
Though the hospitals were unexpectedly busy during the exercise, they still demonstrated that they were ready for a crisis.
Drills are conducted regularly to maintain the facility’s emergency management accreditation, but officials say the real value of the exercise is training staff to handle a crisis.