A line of cars waits in queue in the Lehman High parking lot as a Hays County Health Department volunteer hands out a pack of Skittles to a first responder.

Today, the bag of candy represents Amoxicillin or another antibiotic. Tomorrow, it could be the real thing.

Such was the drill performed Nov. 2 by Hays County Emergency Management during a point of distribution exercise at Lehman High in Kyle.

“Our primary goal is to ensure we can give either the medication or supplies in the quickest amo...