Berkeley residents participate in emergency training exercise

Berkeley residents participated in a citywide emergency response training exercise on May 19 to prepare their neighborhoods for future disasters.
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Berkeley residents participated in a citywide emergency response training exercise on May 19 to prepare their neighborhoods for future disasters.

Hundreds of Berkeley residents took part in a citywide Community Emergency Response Teams training exercise Saturday morning to prepare for possible environmental disasters. As anxiety grows over the inevitable arrival of “the Big One” — the major earthquake predicted to hit California within the next 20 years — many in Read More…