Rockland Prepared For Indian Point Emergency, County Officials Say

NEW CITY, N.Y. -- Rockland emergency workers held an exercise recently to rehearse their roles in case something happens at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day, center, takes part in an Indian Point disaster drill at the Fire Training Center in Pomona.
Photo Credit: *Rockland County Government/Facebook*

Rockland County Executive Ed Day addresses emergency preparedness workers at a drill in Pomona Tuesday.
Photo Credit: *Rockland County Government/Facebook*

Fire and emergency services workers take part in a drill in Pomona Tuesday as they prepare for a possible disaster at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan.
Photo Credit: *Rockland County Government/Facebook*

Carol Reif

04/20/2016 6:30 p.m.

More than 100 people took part in a mock drill Tuesday at the Fire Training Center in Pomona.

The drill was led by Nicholas A. Longo, Jr., program coordinator at Rockland Fire and Emergency Services.

Longo regularly updates County Executive Ed Day on issues concerning Rockland’s disaster preparedness.

Day took part in the exercise.

According to a post on its Facebook page, the county said it hopes that “those workers never have to put their practice to the test.”

But, it added,”if a real emergency ever occurs, Rockland is prepared.”

For more information about Indian Point, which is situated in Buchanan across the river in Westchester, click here.

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