The Erie County Hazardous Materials Team joined with SMART, the Specialized Medical Assistance Response Team in an exercise held at the Erie County Fire Training Academy on January 26th. The purpose of the exercise was to orientate the SMART members on how the Hazmat Team would assist SMART in the event of a multiple casualty incident at a terrorist event.

SMART is coordinated and operated by the Erie County Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. The primary mission of SMART is to make available physicians, physician assistants, nurses, other advanced medical providers and technical specialists to respond to actual and potential medical emergencies on a voluntary basis. The SMART and ECHO Teams have formed an alliance to respond jointly to calls involving hazmat or weapons of mass destruction.

The exercise on January 26th was to demonstrate to SMART how ECHO would conduct decontamination prior to the patient being turned over to the medical specialists for triage. The county Decontamination Trailer as well as the Decon tents were set up for the demonstration. At least 60 individuals participated from both teams.

ECHO members finish erecting one of the decon tents	Chris Zak of SMART conducts post exercise critique
One of the SMART Vehicles	Decontamination Tent set up to accept injured patients
Dr. Bill Dice conducts pre-exercise briefing	SMART team members review pre-plan for mass casualty incident