‘Disaster’ tests airport rescuers
Greg Ellis, aged 16, lies sprawled among the “dead” and “injured” volunteers during the annual emergency exercise at Christchurch Airport on Saturday. Behind him, a fireman enters the old railcar which served as the fuselage of a crashed aircraft carrying 150 “passengers.” Air hostesses helped the walking wounded, while immobile “passengers” were taken by St John ambulance to a casualty clearing station in the airport’s No. 1 hangar.
' The police took over the handling of "bodies.” The exercise involved the rest of the airport’s emergency support facilities, including the Fire Service, the airport’s own crash fire service. airport staff, and the Ministry of Transport. A spokesman for one of the emergency services involved said that the exercise, which was the biggest at the airport, was “a great success.” “It must have taken a lot of work to set up. but it was worth while,” he said.
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