Kingston’s Norman Rogers Airport will be hosting a full-scale live emergency exercise – Exercise “Hot Bird” – to provide first responders, first receivers, and airline and airport personnel with the opportunity to practice their emergency response plans and procedures in the event of an emergency at the City of Kingston’s Norman Rogers Airport.
This exercise will involve the actual deployment of people and resources to respond to a mock emergency. Exercise participants will make use of their own equipment, resources and training to respond to the emergency as if it were a real event.
There are more than 250 people participating in this emergency exercise – 180 locally and 75 from across the country.
Local participants include the City of Kingston (Airport, Office of Emergency Management, Communications), Ambulance Communications & paramedics, Kingston Fire & Rescue, Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston Police and the Ontario Provincial Police.
Students from the La Salle Secondary School Focus Program will be volunteering as injured actors during the exercise, portraying victims who are fatally wounded, in critical condition, or as “walking wounded”. Real debris, smoke, flames and other props will also be incorporated to set the scene.
The Air Canada Emergency Response Centre in Montreal, Quebec and the Jazz Aviation Emergency Response Centres in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto will be activated and participating in the exercise.
The Air Canada Telephone Inquiry Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick and the Air Canada Special Assistance Telephone Centre in Montreal, Quebec will be operational. Jazz Technical Response Field Team and Air Canada Special Assistance Teams will also be activated.
The exercise is scheduled to take place Wednesday, October 5 from 9:15 am to 11:15 am.
The city requests people avoid visiting the airport on Wednesday morning unless you have specific business there.
UPDATE: This event was attended by Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen, who tweeted links to the photo below and one other.
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