Emergency workers from around the world receive training in Disaster City, a Texas ghost town made up of derelict buildings, wreckage, and debris; they learn how to deal with major fires, earthquakes, floods, and terrorist attacks. George Bennett, the inventor of Disaster City, says that as far as floods, hurricanes, fires, and the like are concerned, rescue teams are usually well prepared nowadays. "But when it comes to terrorism, to exploding buildings, massive pieces of concrete and steel wreckage and massive numbers of victims -- how do you prepare people for something like that? --- Our emergency responders are being asked to do more and more, and before Disaster City there was no place that offered the possibility of training them for that"
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