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Not to change the subject, but here's an update on the disaster plan for DC & Baltimore. When this story initially broke, the team who developed the plan were on the "nuclear" committee. Those initial reports stated the plan was developed to deal with nuked victims from DC and Baltimore. The reports specifically said that victims would be radiated, burned, and many blinded.
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Frederick Mayor Upset Over Terror Casualty Plan
County Plan Calls For Transport Of Area Casualties To Frederick Fairgrounds

POSTED: 5:41 pm EST March 23, 2004
UPDATED: 6:59 pm EST March 23, 2004

FREDERICK, Md. -- A plan to use a Frederick fairground to treat casualties in a terror attack has the town's mayor speaking out.

The flap started after Frederick County officials made the decision without any input from Mayor Jennifer Dougherty, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser reported.

The Genesis Plan calls for Washington, D.C., and Baltimore residents to go to the Frederick area in the event of an attack. The plan would direct victims of a potential chemical or biological attack to Frederick.

Officials are planning for preparations to deal with a mass exodus from the two cities to the Frederick area, but many in Frederick said they don't know what plan is about.

"Do I feel like the Genesis Project is poorly organized or holding back information? Both," Dougherty said.

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Frederick Co. Officials Plan For Disaster Without City Input
The mayor held an executive meeting Monday night, expecting to hear details, but she learned nothing, Melser reported.

"[There was] no map, no description. It was a replay of a video tape of four or five people talking at a podium," Dougherty said.

But parts of the plan have supposedly been leaked to the public, including the use of the Frederick County Fairground (pictured, left) as a staging area to treat as many as 500,000 possibly contaminated people, Melser reported.

"In the event of something terribly bad happening in Washington or Baltimore creates a public health risk for the city of Frederick and I don't think that I should stand quietly by while that happens," Dougherty said.

The mayor has called for an emergency executive session for Wednesday night to "put more meat on the bones," Melser reported. And on Thursday night, a public meeting has been scheduled where the mayor hopes to have a plan in place to present.

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