Terror at Hartford Mall [videorecording].

Training video.

Poisonous gas is released at Harford Mall in Belaire, Maryland and 10 individuals die including 3 emergency responders and several hundred were ill. This DVD is approximately 30 minutes long. According to the video, in the late 90's a white man left a bag by a garbage can in the Harford, Maryland, shopping mall. When a mall worker placed the bag into the trash, the bag apparently burst and the worker immediately fell to the floor. Several women ran to his side, thinking he had suffered a heart attack. There was a TV crew neaby filming a commercial. The announcer and the cameraman also ran to the scene; both died. 911 had been called with the information of an apparent heart attack. The four emergency responders died. In total, 10 people died. The bag contained sarin gas. It is a training video, and is not a real event. A report from the Baltimore Sun: Film: Terrorists set off "deadly" gas yesterday in Harford Mall, but not for real. It was for a training film that will be shown to fire and rescue workers in 120 cities. By Gary Cohn SUN STAFF It is an alarming scenario: terrorists unleash deadly gas in the food court of a crowded mall. Rescue workers rush in and are overcome by toxic fumes. The injury and death toll climbs. That was the script for a Defense Department training film being shot yesterday at the Harford Mall in Bel Air. The film is part of a $42.6 million national program to teach police, firefighters, medics and other emergency workers how to recognize and deal with the possible terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons. It will eventually be shown to tens of thousands of fire and rescue workers in 120 cities, including Baltimore. Training for emergency workers is crucial because they are almost certain to be the first ones on the scene in the event of a domestic terrorist attack. "If one of these things goes down, it's not going to be the state and federal cavalry that save the people -- it's going to be the local people. They are the ones responsible for responding," said Jim Warrington, program director for Domestic Preparedness for the Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, the lead agency for the program. The program to train and assist officials in dealing with the potential terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction was passed by Congress in 1996 in reaction to a series of events, including the April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and a March 1995 incident in which a terrorist group unleashed the nerve gas Sarin in the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people. Sarin is a straw-colored, odorless nerve gas that is 25 times more potent than cyanide. With the cameras rolling yesterday, a mock Sarin gas attack was staged at the mall. Filming began shortly after midnight and was completed by the time the mall opened for business. Local law enforcement, fire and rescue workers, a few professional actors and dozens of volunteers participated in the filming. The script reads like a Hollywood disaster film. A man and woman enter the mall and go to the food court. Carrying a large, shopping bag they sit at a table in the food court near a trash can. The man puts some trash in a torn paper bag, places it on the floor, and the couple quickly leave the mall. A growing damp spot appears on the side of the bag. An elderly man notices the leaking bag while emptying his food tray and peers inside the bag. Unknown to the shoppers eating lunch, the script says, an unseen, odorless gas begins to rise from the paper bag. The elderly man clutches his chest and collapses. Two bystanders rush to help and are soon overcome by the gas. A television reporter, shooting a feature about Larry's Cookies, rushes over and is also felled by the gas.