Emergency Services Exercise Glasgow

GLASGOW. River Clyde.

Emergency disaster drill with bus in the Clyde rehearsed by emergency services.

A multi-vehicle pile-up with scores of wounded and a bus jettisoned into the River Clyde was the scenario rehearsed by emergency services during an exercise in Scotland’s largest city.

More than 100 emergency service personnel took part in the drill, which closed a busy bridge across the river.

Extras wearing gory makeup to simulate injuries were also used as were numerous vehicles, while a crane was used to bring the bus out of the water close to the epicenter of the exercise on the Albert Bridge.

The exercise saw members of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Police Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service, HM Coastguard, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution deployed.