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PAWTUCKET -- The city Emergency Management Agency is conducting a drill on Saturday morning to test the agency's ability to quickly dispense medicine to hundreds of residents affected by a major public-health emergency or pandemic.

The city police and firefighters, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, and officials from the state Department of Health are participating, and so can you. The city EMA director Robert Howe is inviting members of the public to observe or participate in the exercise, as "victims" in need of medicine. The drill starts at 9 a.m. at Jenks Junior High School.

Anyone interested in participating in Saturday's drill or in joining the city's civilian emergency response team may contact Howe at (401) 729-5846.

-- Journal staff writer Amanda Milkovits

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