The Oregon National Guard and various Eugene emergency responding services joined forces to run a mass evacuation drill meant to help facilitate and develop communication in the event of a disaster. The exercise featured, among other things, military personnel pretending to be injured, groups carrying injured personnel to and from evacuation points and helicopters landing on campus.
A Eugene firefighter tries to get the attention of a military official as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter lands on Howe Field. The Oregon National Guard, the Eugene Fire Department, the Eugene Police Department and Eugene Emergency Services joined forces to conduct a mass evacuation drill on the University campus. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
National guard service member Sargent Paragas yells in agony while pretending to be injured. The mass evacuation drill required many “bodies” or inju(Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
University students, community members, national guard service members and Bangladesh Major General Abdul Wadud watch as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter lands on Howe Field near the Student Rec Center. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Injured service members prepare to be air-lifted to an evacuation point in a Blackhawk helicopter. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Local neighborhood children watch a Blackhawk helicopter land on to Howe Field near the Student Resource Center. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
“injured” service members are loaded on to a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter by Eugene Fire and Rescue servicemen at Howe Field. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
National guard service members assuming roles as injured civilians and military members lay strapped to stretchers as other “injured” persons are loading into a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Emergency Service Members chat while watching a Blackhawk helicopter have injured service members loaded into it. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
