In an effort to see how quickly El Paso could be evacuated in the event of an enemy air raid, On June 14, 1955, El Pasoans fled the city in a mass evacuation under a “simulated enemy attack.” The evacuation was carried out without a major accident, and “without a traffic bottleneck.”
June 15, 1955, El Paso Times
About 5000 El Pasoans In 1000 motor vehicles fled into the desert today in a mass evacuation after sirens sounded a make-believe enemy air raid…