Rabid Bulldog exercise tests emergency response teams

POLAND — A perpetrator tries to poison the water supply, takes hostages and flees from police.

That was the scenario Tuesday for law enforcement and emergency personnel participating in an emergency exercise sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The exercise, dubbed Rabid Bulldog, began at the Aqua Ohio Water Treatment Plant, state Route 170.

The culprit pollutes the water supply, takes a hostage and disappears at the township administration building.

“The schools went to lock down,” said Clark Jones, Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency director.

Read more in Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com