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Royal Canadian Air Force holding training exercise in Summerside

If you happen to see people parachuting out of aircraft and things being dropped from the sky in the coming days, don't be alarmed, it might just be a Royal Canadian Air Force training exercise.

5-day search and rescue exercise is being based primarily out of P.E.I. city

The exercise will run until Friday and will take place each day between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Google Images)

If you happen to see people parachuting out of an aircraftand things being dropped from the sky in the coming days, don't be alarmed, it might just be a Royal Canadian Air Force training exercise.

From Monday to Friday, a search and rescue exercise will be conducted primarily out of the area around the airport in Summerside, P.E.I., but the training will also make use ofthe airports and regions around Miramichi, N.B., and Sydney, N.S.

The exercisewill also involvewaterways, aircraft, Canadian Coast Guard vessels and pyrotechnics.

The training will run from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.