Emergency exercise a success in Carmarthenshire
A multi-agency exercise has held to test Carmarthenshire’s response to a potential maritime pollution event, has been hailed a success. Exercise Celtic Coast - involving the emergency services, several local authorities and other agencies – was staged over two days at the beginning of October. It involved a series of table-top exercises at the county’s new Strategic Coordination Centre, accompanied by the live deployment of resources and equipment both at sea and on shore in the Milford Haven waterway and at Pembrey Country Park. Agencies that took part included Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys County Councils; the Environment Agency Wales; Milford Haven Port Authority; the Maritime Coastguard Agency; Dyfed Powys Police; Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Services; the Hywel Dda Health Board; Public Health Wales; the Countryside Council for Wales; the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and the Welsh Government. Although the exercise was based on a fictional...