"Santa Clara County's O'Connor Hospital, for instance, just ran a drill with doctors, nurses and volunteers in its back parking lot. The hypothetical disaster? A bomb exploding with poison chemicals at Levi's Stadium. With major sporting events coming next year, we're really emphasizing more mass casualty training, decontamination training, hospital command center preparation, said Sheila Tuna, who was running the drill for the county's Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system. We're really just trying to get ahead of the game and prepared for anything that may come across."
"The Super Bowl is more than three months away, and if there have been any credible threats against the stadium that holds more than 68,000 fans, public safety officials aren't saying. That terrorists could turn a major sporting event into a horror scene, however, has been the stuff of Hollywood the 1977 thriller Black Sunday revolved around a plot to bomb the Super Bowl. But real sporting events have been occasional targets of terrorists, from the 1972 Olympics in Munich to the 2013 Boston Marathon."
Levi's Stadium will host next year's Super Bowl and several men's World Cup matches, prompting Bay Area leaders to plan large public festivities such as concerts, block parties and drone shows to capture tourism revenue. Public safety agencies are simultaneously intensifying emergency preparedness, running mass-casualty and decontamination drills and hospital command center exercises. Santa Clara County's O'Connor Hospital conducted a drill simulating a bomb exploding with poison chemicals. Major sporting events have been targeted historically, including the 1972 Munich Olympics and the 2013 Boston Marathon. Regional and federal agencies are coordinating security efforts despite legal disputes over federal disaster funding.
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