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Boston not under attack this weekend

Hazmat exercisePhoto by Boston Office of Emergency Management.

Police, fire and emergency-medical crews from across the area have descended on various locations in Boston this weekend for drills on dealing with a variety of situations, from hostage-taking bank robbers at the Circle Cinema in Cleveland Circle to a hazmat/suspicious package situation on a Blue Line train at Bowdoin (above). So any gunfire you might hear? Chances are it's not real.

On the Blue Line. Photo by BFD.On the Blue Line. Photo by BFD.

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You would think that the Police and Fire Departments would have included the City ambulance in this exercise.

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Photo of the back of an EMS participant. Local hospitals, too. I've added an EMS reference to the original post.

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....which have all been gathering dust for the last ELEVEN years.

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Couldnt be further from the truth, at least a few times every year the hazmat equipment is put to use, same goes for the SWAT equipment.

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If there really WAS an attack, and everyone was too busy training for an attack to respond in time?

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For some reason that photo in the Blue Line train reminds me of the sperm in "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (but were afraid to ask)."

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