Disaster Exercise Quakes Alamogordo NM  Early in the morning, on August 4th, the city of Alamogordo New Mexico simulated an earthquake with a magnitude of 7+ on the Richter scale.  In the midst of mayhem, fire, explosions, falling buildings, major vehicle accidents, injury and death, the Civil Air Patrol CAP launched into action.  Within minutes after take-off, members of the Alamogordo Composite Squadron of (CAP) New Mexico Wing, were transmitting snap-shots of disaster scenes, via FM radio, to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), providing the disaster response team incident commander with a first hand look enabling him to assess situations across the city and direct emergency response teams into position within minutes.  A total of seventeen members of the NM Wing CAP from Alamogordo, Roswell, and Clovis flew 7 sorties in support of the Natural Disaster exercise. The event was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Association FEMA and more than 30 organizations from across the state participated.  Ric Himebrook, the CAP Agency Representative to the EOC, said, "CAP capabilities to provide real time data, were clearly demonstrated" and "were vital to decision making processes in the EOC".  August 5th, 2001, Alamogordo Daily News read:  "...A group stayed huddled around a television, watching the street drama on television via a camera flown in a Civil Air Patrol plane.  What the camera revealed was police emergency responders acting as if the disaster was real...."