EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT “EXERCISE” AT FOX STUDIOS MIMICS REAL-LIFE DRAMA OVER 80 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED In the fantasy world of Hollywood disaster films, creating special effects scenes with bloodied victims and damaged buildings is business as usual. So when 20 th Century Fox wanted to test the readiness of its emergency preparedness plan, one would expect a fairly realistic mock disaster scenario. The studio, which produced such blockbuster disaster flicks as The Day After Tomorrow and Volcano, got everything it asked for when Lee Goldstein, now president of Business Continuity Group (BCG), developed a full-scale, interactive “exercise” to evaluate and improve the company’s disaster/recovery plan. Buildings had collapsed and bloodied bodies were strewn everywhere. Even Fox News aired a mock n

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