[Bangor Evacuation Scenes] Operation Alert

Date1955

Can DescriptionsJune 15, 1955: Footage of a mock evacuation of the city of Bangor shot by the WABI -TV Special Reports Team. WABI news trucks with cameras film a steady line of cars and buses driving on downtown Bangor streets. Men with headsets monitor telephones at the Bangor Amateur Radio Emergency Corp and Bangor Civil Defense headquarters. Civil Defense men carry patients on stretchers out of the Bangor Osteopathic Hospital and load them into ambulances while onlookers watch. Students walk out of Bangor High School in single file. Helicopter and large Air Force planes fly overhead while WABI-TV reporter talks into microphone on the street. Civil Defense officer directs a long, steady stream of vehicles that slowly drive out of the city and Bangor Fire Department fire fighters watch beside their truck. Extended footage of deserted downtown with no cars or people and many vacant stores, including the W.T. Grant Co. storefront. Footage of streets taken from moving vehicle and aerial footage of the deserted city taken from airplane. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/civildef.cfm