a disaster in the making

We had our disaster/emergency drill yesterday at the hospital, where we
practice what to do with mass casualty incidents. I had asked one of
our visiting docs to help me plan it and so she had organized several of
the nursing students to come and help. We had notified the nurses to
let them know we would be practicing today so that they could be ready.
What I didn't anticipate was the acting skills of our nursing students.
We drove up a carload of them to our outpatient department, where they
started wailing and keening after having tangled themselves up and
squirting ketchup all over themselves. Our watchmen went into a panic,
as did the chaplains, carrying the students out of the back of the
truck. Someone said that they had seen them all gathering in the
nursing training school just a few minutes before and 'there must have
been some sort of electrocution' that happened there. People were
scurrying left and right, I later found out that the staff in the
business office stopped their work for 30 minutes to pray for the
injured nursing students, and we called a halt to the whole process
after about half an hour to discuss some of the issues that came up.
Note to self: make sure that EVERYONE knows there's a drill on before
conducting one again.