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DART Emergency Services Exercise
Spring 2002

Vehicle Bomb Exercise

 

The spring 2002 Emergency Services Exercise included a simulated terrorist vehicle bomb. The intent was to provide an opportunity for Moffett Security and Law Enforcement personnel to interact with Moffett Fire and the Army's Explosives Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD). The simulated vehicle bomb was a small pickup truck with 300 pounds of ANFO.

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Simulated truck bomb with 300 pounds of simulated ANFO. (26,048 bytes) Simulated truck bomb with 300 pounds of simulated ANFO.  Note detonation device, plastic explosives and The truck with explosives. (37,051 bytes) The truck parked in front of building. (34,321 bytes) Police securing the area and setting up roadblocks. (30,043 bytes)
Temporary Command Post. (22,342 bytes) Tracking events at temporary Command Post. (26,049 bytes) Moffett Fire arriving on scene. (26,950 bytes) EOD Arrived on scene. (39,011 bytes) EOD establishing command post and remotely viewing operations. (28,157 bytes)
EOD's robot. (37,160 bytes) EOD peeled back room of truck and deactivated the bomb. (38,641 bytes)      

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