MEDIA ADVISORY
What: State and international water rescue teams using boats and aircraft will train in a large-scale flood rescue exercise centered around Lake James and the Catawba River near Morganton.
Who: Numerous water and air rescue teams from North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut in addition to international teams from Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and the United Kingdom
When: Exercise runs from March 31 through April 3.
A media day will be held on Tuesday April 2 beginning at 1 p.m. - one of the exercise’s busiest days.
Where: Media interested in covering the exercise should meet at the Western Piedmont Emergency Services Training Center at 150 Coal Chute Road, Morganton, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2. Exercise organizers will conduct a media briefing and will then escort media to sites to see air and boat rescue exercises in progress.
Media planning to cover the exercise on April 2 are asked to RSVP to keith.acree@ncdps.gov
Contacts:
Keith Acree - NC Emergency Management – 919-880-2970
keith.acree@ncdps.gov
Karyn Yaussy – Exercise Incident Management Team – 828-446-4108
kyaussy@catawbacountync.gov