THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, January 20, 1996 TAG: 9601200325
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 25 lines
A local search-and-rescue team dug through the debris of three
collapsed apartment units on Friday as part of a drill. After a
bulldozer razed the buildings in the abandoned Carper Apartments
Navy housing complex in Virginia Beach, drill leaders inserted
mannequins and some live ``victims'' into the rubble. More than 150
rescue personnel worked to shore up the buildings and free the
``victims.'' Jim Elliot, a Norfolk paramedic, left, Robert Helfant,
center, who discovered the ``infant'' (actually a doll), and David
Layman of Newport News use a makeshift stretcher to remove the tiny
``victim.'' Members of Virginia Task Force 2 helped with last year's
rescue operation in Oklahoma City after a terrorist bomb ravaged a
federal building.
by CNB