{"content":[{"text":"evacuate employees and account for anyone missing during an \n emergency, said Leo Messier, director of the Providence EMA.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.089773,"width":0.6223719999999999,"height":0.03930299999999999}},{"text":"An accurate accounting will \"save the Fire Department from having to \n rescue people who are not there,\" Messier said.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.144318,"width":0.6886299999999999,"height":0.03915199999999999}},{"text":"The drill was also designed to test the city's radio communications \n system and the ability of agencies to work together.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.198712,"width":0.6545350000000001,"height":0.039303000000000005}},{"text":"Only a few employees from each company participated in the drill so \n the companies would not have to close during the exercise.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.253258,"width":0.678045,"height":0.03930300000000003}},{"text":"Michael Kirkwood, of KeySpan, said the exercise went \"quite \n smoothly.\"","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.307803,"width":0.5968339999999999,"height":0.03915099999999999}},{"text":"Typically, companies develop their own emergency evacuation plans. \n Yesterday's drill was different because it gave all the companies at the \n port the opportunity to carry out a simulated drill in coordination with \n each other.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.362349,"width":0.6966699999999999,"height":0.07596900000000001}},{"text":"The drill marked the first time the city was able to test the ID system \n for volunteers. The equipment, which cost $30,000, was paid for with \n Homeland Security money. The system is meant to provide quick \n identification of people who are authorized to be in the emergency \n response area.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.453561,"width":0.687853,"height":0.09460599999999997}},{"text":"\"We're really better prepared than ever before,\" Mayor David N. \n Cicilline said after the exercise. Cicilline gave much of the credit to \n Messier, a former state police officer whom he hired to run the \n emergency management office in 2003.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.563409,"width":0.65726,"height":0.07596999999999998}},{"text":"Messier has \"established himself as a leader\" by forming partnerships \n with such agencies as the American Red Cross, RIPTA, Johnson & \n Wales University and the Volunteer Center of Rhode Island, Cicilline \n said. Motiva and Univar were among the companies that participated \n in the exercise.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.654773,"width":0.6870769999999999,"height":0.09445399999999993}},{"text":"\"As a result, we now have emergency shelter volunteers so that if \n there is ever an emergency we now have the resources and the people \n who are prepared and ready to respond,\" Cicilline said.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.76447,"width":0.702528,"height":0.05763600000000002}},{"text":"Cicilline said PEMA has been instrumental in securing more than $1 \n million in grants from Homeland Security. The money has been used \n to buy equipment and to train public safety workers, he said.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.837349,"width":0.6780569999999999,"height":0.05763600000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}