Operation Fast Forward
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Operation Fast Forward was a major test of emergency plans to evacuate large numbers of people from the downtown area of Washington, DC. It was conducted in conjunction with the end of the annual fireworks display on the National Mall
on 4 July 2005.
A large number of people traditionally leave the area in the fifteen minutes following the show, and so it was decided to use this annual phenomena to test the emergency plan. Additional subway cars and modifications to the pattern used by the traffic signals are among the elements of the plan.
National Mall
The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Mall is a unit of the National Park Service , and is administered by the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit...
on 4 July 2005.
A large number of people traditionally leave the area in the fifteen minutes following the show, and so it was decided to use this annual phenomena to test the emergency plan. Additional subway cars and modifications to the pattern used by the traffic signals are among the elements of the plan.