Firemen rushed to ''decontaminate” a man sprayed with a chemical or biological weapon during a mock disaster drill Saturday morning at Greengate Mall.

Exercise Mall Strike 2001 was part of anti-terrorist program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. Officials described the three-hour exercise as a ‘no inspection, no fault learning and training tool.’

Emergency and disaster personnel responded to a ‘high alert’ that a small explosion had occurred at the mall, located on Route 30, west of Greensburg.

The ‘mass destruction’ exercise cost the federal government $22,450 to stage.

In September 2000, a similar exercise was conducted in Pittsburgh.

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