Rockland Emergency Services, area utility companies and others went through a four-hour simulated training exercise Wednesday at the Fire Training Center to review procedures in case of a freight train derailment in North Rockland. Stony Point supervisor Jim Monaghan says the event was pretty realistic…
Similar exercises were conducted last night covering the Tappan area in Orangetown. Chris Jensen is the Program Coordinator for the Rockland County Office of Fire and Emergency Services, and says they work with New Jersey responders from Old Tappan and Northvale since Tappan is right on the border…
CSX, Orange and Rockland and Suez New York also participated in the simulations.