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Still Life: University Park Airport conducts full-scale disaster drill
A school bus serves in place of an airport cockpit for University Park Airport's full-scale disaster drill, held Wednesday evening (May 27).
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
A total of 54 victims were represented by 28 juniors and seniors from State College Area High School's public safety class, 21 volunteer friends and family of emergency responders participating in the drill and five mannequins.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
The airport's emergency response team was first on the scene of the mock accident, in which a FedEx delivery plane -- represented by the vehicle on fire -- was to have collided on a runway with a 50-passenger plane.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
In the drill's staging area on the airport's runway, fire, ambulance and HazMat emergency response vehicles from the State College and Bellefonte areas waited to arrive on the scene based on their anticipated real response times from their stations across the region.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
As the mock accident event continued, victims acted out their injured roles so emergency medical personnel could respond on the scene realistically, while fire and HazMat responders worked to extinguish the "plane" fire. During the event, Penn State's HazMat Response Team, which has served as Centre County's certified hazardous materials response team since 1993, worked to certify two crews.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
While outlying emergency response vehicles continued to wait for their appointed time to arrive on the scene of the drill, observers in green vests, representing several emergency response teams, approached the scene.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
Evaluators in orange vests critiqued responders, taking notes and offering suggestions on the scene of the drill.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
More than a half-dozen emergency response technicians (EMTs) and paramedics teams from Centre LifeLink, Bellefonte and Mount Nittany Medical Center participated in the drill. In all, approximately 260 people participated in the mock disaster.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
While an actual runway disaster would have closed the University Park Airport, during the drill the airport remained open. A FedEx plane about the size of the one represented by the vehicle on fire landed during the event. The drill was not staged on a runway but rather on a vehicular access road parallel to the runway.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
The airport disaster drill began at 5:30 p.m. with the sounding of the initial emergency siren. During the first hour, emergency response teams had triaged the wounded and moved those not in serious condition to a safe location, so teams could address critical victims and the first ambulances could leave the scene with victims requiring serious medical attention could leave the scene and head to the medical center.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
Two HazMat crews were being assessed for certification during the airport drill, so activity at the mock plane fire continued while emergency medical technicians and paramedics went about their response to the scene.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
Meanwhile, in the airport's general aviation terminal, the incident command center had assembled to coordinate the various response teams from the region. The severity of the mock disaster added to the complexity of the scenario, so the drill proved to be an important communiations exercise for representatives from various fire, rescue, airport and University crisis communications teams.
Photo Credit: Jill Shockey / Penn State Public Information
Year Taken: 2009
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