Emergency personnel blacked out

The massive earthquake that rattled Southern California this morning has made it difficult to reach emergency personnel. The Sun cannot reach the county's emergency operations center.

- The Sun and Bulletin newspapers are covering the Great Southern California Shakeout drill as if it were a real-time event. You are reading about simulated disaster events from various local areas and the agencies that cover them. What you have read are practice drills held by fire, police and local hospitals.