Armidale emergency response simulation

Emergency Services responding to a simulated aircraft crash, video Heath Forsyth

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00:20 Hi, my name's Darren Williams.

00:31 I'm the officer in charge of Arminal Police Station.

00:35 Also the local area controller for

00:40 incident management stuff in the area.

00:44 So today was about testing our capability of all different organizations for

00:50 an aircraft incident at the Arminal Airport.

00:53 The whole idea was, as I said, it was about testing our response,

00:58 our capability in relation to dealing with a large scale aircraft crash.

01:04 This incident had 28 passengers on board,

01:07 which involved a number of wounded, a number of deceased patients.

01:11 Aircraft on fire, which involved technically shutting down the airport,

01:19 involving New South Wales Fire and Rescue, New South Wales SES,

01:23 New South Wales Ambulance Service, to get in and get it done.

01:27 >> For every two years, it is a full field exercise stimulating.

01:31 And we've got some injured passengers.

01:34 So we've got all emergency services here from the area.

01:37 We've got fire, ambulance, police, SES, and also the army.

01:43 So this is designed to test our procedures and

01:45 to also test the responders' procedures as well.

01:49 So safety and compliance is what we're about here at Arminal Regional Airport.

01:54 And today we're certainly fixing that muscle.

01:58 >> My name is Chrissy.

01:59 I work for Arminal Airport Services.

02:01 And we contract QantasLink and Link Airways out of Arminal Airport.

02:07 So today coming into this emergency exercise, it was a really great

02:11 opportunity for us to activate our station emergency response plan.

02:16 And to train a couple of our newer staff members about how things would go

02:21 down in a real life emergency, especially with today's example,

02:26 the larger passenger plane.

02:28 It's something that doesn't happen very often.

02:31 But it's definitely really important to understand the workings

02:38 out of how these operations go and communicating with other agencies.

02:43 So we have our procedures that we follow.

02:47 And then we communicate with the other emergency services like the police,

02:52 fire and rescue, the ambulance, and

02:54 the council as well, who operate the airport here.

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