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A crowd gathers in the early morning light before a Eagan Minnesota Emergency Exercise involving seventeen different government agencies including local fire departments, law enforcement, ambulances, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Defense, and the Air National Guard . Eagan city officials were exercising the community's initial response to a scenario in which a military cargo plane had crashed into the shopping center during business hours. US Air Force Photo by Tech Sgt Erik Gudmundson (released)