The scenario involved an anhydrous ammonia leak occured during a delivery at a local food plant. The ammonia cloud was to drift southwest across the Clark County Fairgrounds where multiple events were taking place. The delivery driver "died" due to his exposure to the ammonia cloud and multiple folks were medically affected by the cloud as well as others that were evacuated from the area.

Amateur Radio provided communications from the incident as well as the Fairgrounds, the EOC, the Clark County Sheriff's Office, the Springfield City 911 Center and the evacuation shelter at Reid School. State officials were observing the exercise to provide feedback to the organizations participating.

Local Amateur Radio is being recognized by local disaster preparedness officials as a valuable asset. This year's scenario included a simulated failure of the 911 phone system due to the heavy call traffic. Hams were called in to pass traffic from the 911 Center to the Incident Commanders until the repairs were made.

Amateur radio operators from Clark, Greene, Madison and Montgomery Counties supported the 18th annual Calvin's Challenge Bike Race. The 12 hour race has two courses, a 7 mile loop and a 50 mile loop. Amateur operators supported the 50 mile loop providing intersection and race course safety communications.

The 50 mile loop began in Clark County at Shawnee High School, snaking its way through Greene and Madison Counties, returning to Shawnee High School.

The operators used the CLARA 145.31 repeater for communications throughout the day. Members of Greene County's XWARN club provided their mobile communications trailer for net control duties.

Clark County amateurs who supported the race included: Bob Beach, W8LCZ, Jim Graver, KB8PSO, Joe Sheline, KD8AQH and Paul Webb, KC8PZX.

A short video about the race can be viewed HERE.