The Louisa County Ambulance Service along with several emergency agencies will be conducting a disaster drill next week. Louisa County Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Technician Zack Kendall explains what will be happening during this event, “We have Med Force that flies over our area virtually every single day unless the weather is bad and within our county they fly over three service areas. So what we are doing is we are setting up a mock aircraft down training to just kind of better prepare our county for a response in case something like that ever happens.”

Kendall encourages drivers to slow down and obey traffic laws on Saturday, June 4th and any day they see or hear emergency vehicles enroute with their sirens and lights in use.

Agencies included in this disaster drill are Columbus Junction fire and police departments, Wapello Community Ambulance, Wapello, Morning Sun, and Grandview fire departments, Louisa County Sheriff’s Office, and Louisa County Emergency Management Agency.

Hear more from Kendall during Thursday’s JJ Nichting Company in Touch with Southeast Iowa program at kciiradio.com.