and was now awaiting confirmation that their net was cast tight over the entire area. Once they had received the preliminary report from their survey team in Browns Mills and forwarded that information along with a brief segment of the video the team had recorded along the way, President Maxwell and General Page had complied with his renewed request to begin lock-down procedures.
The survivor along with the body they had recovered and the air samples were still making their way to the field center just outside of Philadelphia. The mobile center had the highest possible level of containment in place along with an external incinerator. If containment at that site was breeched in the slightest , their protocols called for the entire site, personnel and all, to be subjected to complete and total incineration.
Dr. Woods turned back to the computer monitor where the rest of their team was going through the video footage from inside the medical center in Brow ns Mills in slow motion. The sheer volume of casualties just inside this single rural medical center was astounding. From what they saw of the parking lot and surrounding streets it was clear that victims had swarmed the center all in a short period of time. The doctors in that facility likely spent the last few minutes of their lives already knowing that they were facing a losing battle and probably did their best just to keep people as calm as possible as their loved ones dropped off one after the other. The crises center staff considered how the same scene repeated at a larger hospital inside a major city would lead to mass panic when roads became clogged with cars and pedestrians all desperately trying to reach help.
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The field center was made up of eight large hard plastic tents connected by pressurized tubes and manned by a team of thirty five. The plastic material used to construct each tent had been specially designed to react to pressure from within. Once set up and pressurized it formed a hardened shell that was impenetrable from outside or in. As long as the interior pressure running through the walls of the fabric remained flowing it was airtight and practically indestructible. Once the pressure was released the fabric could be collapsed and stored for easy portability, making the perfect arrangement for mobility and rapid field deployment. The personnel compliment was made up of twenty scientist specializing in a range of fields, ten analysts, and five support personnel who also doubled as security. Each tent was completely self-contained from the outside environment with independent air supplies and segregated power sources. Three service trucks were connected to the tents via a series of wires, cables and hoses, these trucks provided the work areas with electricity, water and compressed air. The entrance to each tent was clearly marked and color coded to represent the containment capacity for the individual areas starting at level two and going to the highest of five. To enter or exit any tent, workers first had to proceed through an enclosed channel where they would dress or undress into their hazardous material suits, immediately upon entering their work areas they would plug into a central oxygen system that provided independent breathable air. The decontamination area was segregated from the main facilities by a long rubberized tunnel connected to six hoses a little thicker than garden hoses. When activated, these hoses would use compressed air to spray anything inside the tube with decontaminating agents as well as sterile water and soap. To leave the decontamination area, a person would have to stop between two doorways, only one of which could be open at a time. Before the outer door would open a series of sensors would collect air samples and run them through a computer to detect any suspicious substance before allowing the outer door to open. A separate incinerator was dedicated to this outer doorway, if someone inside that section managed to open
The survivor along with the body they had recovered and the air samples were still making their way to the field center just outside of Philadelphia. The mobile center had the highest possible level of containment in place along with an external incinerator. If containment at that site was breeched in the slightest , their protocols called for the entire site, personnel and all, to be subjected to complete and total incineration.
Dr. Woods turned back to the computer monitor where the rest of their team was going through the video footage from inside the medical center in Brow ns Mills in slow motion. The sheer volume of casualties just inside this single rural medical center was astounding. From what they saw of the parking lot and surrounding streets it was clear that victims had swarmed the center all in a short period of time. The doctors in that facility likely spent the last few minutes of their lives already knowing that they were facing a losing battle and probably did their best just to keep people as calm as possible as their loved ones dropped off one after the other. The crises center staff considered how the same scene repeated at a larger hospital inside a major city would lead to mass panic when roads became clogged with cars and pedestrians all desperately trying to reach help.
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The field center was made up of eight large hard plastic tents connected by pressurized tubes and manned by a team of thirty five. The plastic material used to construct each tent had been specially designed to react to pressure from within. Once set up and pressurized it formed a hardened shell that was impenetrable from outside or in. As long as the interior pressure running through the walls of the fabric remained flowing it was airtight and practically indestructible. Once the pressure was released the fabric could be collapsed and stored for easy portability, making the perfect arrangement for mobility and rapid field deployment. The personnel compliment was made up of twenty scientist specializing in a range of fields, ten analysts, and five support personnel who also doubled as security. Each tent was completely self-contained from the outside environment with independent air supplies and segregated power sources. Three service trucks were connected to the tents via a series of wires, cables and hoses, these trucks provided the work areas with electricity, water and compressed air. The entrance to each tent was clearly marked and color coded to represent the containment capacity for the individual areas starting at level two and going to the highest of five. To enter or exit any tent, workers first had to proceed through an enclosed channel where they would dress or undress into their hazardous material suits, immediately upon entering their work areas they would plug into a central oxygen system that provided independent breathable air. The decontamination area was segregated from the main facilities by a long rubberized tunnel connected to six hoses a little thicker than garden hoses. When activated, these hoses would use compressed air to spray anything inside the tube with decontaminating agents as well as sterile water and soap. To leave the decontamination area, a person would have to stop between two doorways, only one of which could be open at a time. Before the outer door would open a series of sensors would collect air samples and run them through a computer to detect any suspicious substance before allowing the outer door to open. A separate incinerator was dedicated to this outer doorway, if someone inside that section managed to open
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