LAS VEGAS Police, firefighters and state and federal emergency officials are honing their terrorism response skills over the next four days in Las Vegas.
As many as 78 agencies are expected to take part in several disaster scenarios — including one involving an attack on the Las Vegas Strip.

Clark County health officials plan to operate a simulated casualty collection point this morning at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Actors are playing the role of casualties.

That’ll be followed by a decontamination process for 500 bodies involving the county coroner and an Army Reserve unit.

Some exercises will be at the Clark County Government Center.

Others are at the Convention Center.

That’s where officials are offering a free pet microchip clinic to implant identification tags under the skin of one-thousand pets brought in by their owners.

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