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IMERT Deployed to the 2008 Grant Park
Election Night Celebration
Tens of thousands lit up Grant Park on Election night in two sections of the park—a southern portion on the softball diamonds at Hutchinson Field for some 70,000 ticketed guests of the campaign and a smaller non-ticketed event farther north near the Petrillo Music Shell in Butler Field. The election night rally promised to lure over 150,000 or more to the standing-room only venue. Public safety officials doused attendees expectations by restricting which parts of the park will be open.
As part of the Chicago Fire Departments (CFD) planning process for the election night celebration at Chicago’s Grant Park IMERT assets were requested to be pre-deployed making it an opportunity for IMERT to experience a deployment to Chicago as well as an opportunity for IMERT and CFD to integrate emergency medical objectives.
The IMERT/CFD Training Exercise and Pre-deployment to Chicago (Election Night 2008 in Grant Park) was designed to educate IMERT members on the process of integrating into the first response community in Chicago. Additionally, the exercise provided “real-time” opportunity for IMERT to deploy with equipment and vehicles through the city and set up an alternate care site upon arrival to the designated site.
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