Emergency!

Earlier today, Gossips (and the Gossips reader who took these pictures) noticed this sign up by the hospital, at the intersection of Columbia Street, Prospect Avenue, and Columbia Turnpike.

It seems that tomorrow, when TEDxHudson is happening at the Hudson Opera House, Columbia County Emergency Services will be conducting a "large-scale casualty exercise." At some undisclosed location near Livingston, a pretend disaster will occur, and the pretend victims of that disaster will be transported in very real vehicles to Columbia Memorial Hospital. The details of the exercise were reported in today's Register-Star: "County emergency services to hold casualty exercise."