An interesting story , Massport is doing a drill at the airport this morning which is supposedly the largest airport mass casualty drill to date. 1,000 emergency personnel, 100 ambulances, 60 hospitals involved. They are even using a real explosion on the site which is all supposed to mimic the collision of two passenger planes. I’m not sure if they’ve invented any terrorists connections to the story, but I guess we’ll wait and see.
The oddest part about this is how the story didn’t even break to the public until late last night And this being Saturday morning a lot of people won’t be up to read about iit before it happens. The reason I know is that my supervisor at the hospital I work at has a husband who works at the airport and needed to know what was going on. Since we may be the largest of the trauma centers for this “simulated disaster” she made it clear to pass this message on and let the day shift know to expect that something might be up.
This could be an interesting learning experience for those involved in disaster preparedness, we’ll see.