Once a year, the Coast Guard observes an evacuation drill.
They need to practice evacuation drills just like anyone else.
Employees of the planning agency have gone through one evacuation drill and another is scheduled tomorrow.
Indeed, many islanders said they did not bother taking part in regular evacuation drills.
Last month county officials announced that an evacuation drill involving about 8,000 people would be held next spring.
"Did you know the reason for the evacuation drills?"
At that stage, emergency plans are drawn up for an area within 10 miles of the plant, and an evacuation drill is held.
This evacuation drill was originally held on the 15th of every month.
That should have occurred within forty seconds of the evacuation drill.
They had done quite a few evacuation drills in training, and everyone got into habits, patterns.