First responders got training at Grand Valley State University over the weekend for a mass casualty event. Ottawa County’s emergency management director Louis Hunt told Michigan News Network the drill was a success that also revealed things that need work, including better communication between agencies on the scene.
“We actually created a mass casualty incident communications plan just for growing incidents like this, and it’s very new,” Hunt said. “So, working through that is going to be one of the things, for sure.”
The drill happened a day after someone in Pennsylvania drove into a crowd, hurting 17 people and killing one. It simulated someone with a vehicle hitting people at the GVSU football stadium.