The event will be staged on the eastern end of the Hilltop Campus and access to certain areas will be limited during the event. This exercise is a regional effort involving agencies representing law enforcement, firefighters and hospitals.

Photo by Kevin Lowder

Mike Smiley (far left) of the Office of Emergency Management for St. Louis makes introductory remarks at the recent Weapons of Mass Destruction Table Top Exercise --a walk-through of the May 19 exercise -- in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

During the drill, several emergency vehicles -- fire engines, ambulances and police cars -- will be seen on that part of the campus, and many people will be walking around Brookings Quadrangle. Some volunteers for the exercise might have makeup on them to make them look injured, in an effort to add realism.

Because of the exercise, several restrictions will be placed on University personnel, and access to some areas and buildings will be restricted.

The following parking lots will be closed from about 6 a.m.-2 p.m.:

¥ No. 1 and No. 2, in front of Bixby and Givens halls;

¥ No. 4, in front of the under-construction Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering;

¥ No. 11, the temporary lot east of Compton Hall;

¥ No. 10, east of Goldfarb Hall; and

¥ No. 9 and No. 43, bordering Forsyth Boulevard and south of Goldfarb Hall.

Hoyt Drive, Brookings Drive, Chaplin Drive, Compton Drive and the Brookings Circle will be closed to normal traffic between 6 a.m.-2 p.m.

Foot traffic in the areas described above and in the area of the Brookings Quadrangle will be restricted. No pedestrian traffic will be permitted in the Quad, and the occupants of buildings bordering the Quad -- North and South Brookings, Cupples I, Duncker, Ridgley, January and Busch halls -- will not be permitted to use exit doors that access the Quad during the exercise.

Any person or group that has a special access requirement during the hours of this activity should contact University Police prior to May 16 in order to coordinate its needs.