Fake quake shakes South Bay
[scrollGallery id=241] Dozens of bodies – either with gashes in their arms and broken bones, stuck under a fallen object, or laying unconscious – were sprinkled throughout Ronda and Longfellow drives, the neighborhood just west of Mira Costa High School, on Saturday. Roughly two hundred members of the South Bay’s Community Emergency Response Team, clad in neon yellow vests and forest green hard hats, were training to rescue. They were responding to victim role-players of a fake 7.8 earthquake that hit the greater South Bay area at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday. Members attended from the CERT organizations of El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Redondo Beach and the Tri Cities. Throughout the day, CERT volunteers, responders and resources were deployed to the neighborhood at the command of the Manhattan Beach Fire Department, to conduct survey and damage assessments, search and rescue and to perform victim extrication and first aid, said Gary Stabile, president of the planning committee for the event. Experienced CERT members, dubbed ‘evaluators’ for the exercise, trailed behind the responders to give direction and critiques. At 2 p.m., the City Council…
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