A multi-vehicle pile-up with scores of wounded and a bus jettisoned into the River Clyde was the scenario rehearsed by emergency services during an exercise in Scotland’s largest city.
More than 100 emergency service personnel took part in the drill, which closed a busy bridge across the river.
Extras wearing gory makeup to simulate injuries were also used as were numerous vehicles, while a crane was used to bring the bus out of the water close to the epicenter of the exercise on the Albert Bridge.
The exercise saw members of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Police Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service, HM Coastguard, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution deployed.
Nursing students from the University of Glasgow School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing were also involved in the disaster rehearsal.
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Glasgow City Council brought in traffic restrictions to allow the drill to take place.
Prohibition of vehicle movements include at Saltmarket between Steel Street and Clyde Street and the Albert Bridge for its full length.
Crown Street between the bridge and Ballater Street and Greendyke Street between Turnbull Street and Saltmarket were also closed.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service post read: “A training exercise involving firefighters and other emergency services will be taking place on Wednesday, March 13 at Albert Bridge, Glasgow.
“We will be visible on the River Clyde.
“Do not be alarmed if you see a high level of activity in the area.”
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