The workshop featured expert panels, question and answer sessions, and a planning simulationexercise that explored how different groups can work together to effectively tackle these and other important issues.
Fortunately, last month's scenario was just a simulation an exercise to test how well federal, state and local governments and the private sector can work together in a crisis.
Lovelle - the name of the fictional town in the simulation - was a replication of a town in France where the training exercise had been carried out in real life, said Col Law.