PASSERS-BY could have been forgiven for thinking a major incident was underway last night at Hereford's Play nightclub - it was in fact emergency services running a training exercise.
Fire chief at Hereford and Worcester Fire service, Mike Yates tweeted:
The reality of 999 response but in training. Scarily real! pic.twitter.com/ZLJqlDMTcr
— Mark Yates (@HWFRSFireChief) May 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/MARSmedicalteam/status/603288703558123520
Specialist medical charity MARS was also involved - it released a tweet:
MARS team working hard with emergency service colleagues at #Play in Hereford in Major Incident exercise. pic.twitter.com/B90CnE8bLO
— MARS Medical Team (@MARSmedicalteam) May 26, 2015
The exercise, involving fire, police, ambulance and medical services concluded at about 10pm last night.
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