<\/a>A child simulating an airplane crash casualty walks across the tarmac at Juneau International Airport as part of an exercise on July 23, 2022. (Michael S. Lockett \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
More than 80 volunteers aided the drill, Adams said, while Capital City Fire\/Rescue personnel responded to the scene, putting out deliberately set fires in plane mockups, triaging casualties and simulating evacuation for further medical care.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Assistant Chief Sam Russell and Capt. Anne Wilcock led the response, said Assistant Chief Ed Quinto, who was evaluating the exercise.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
<\/a>Capt. Anne Wilcock of Capital City Fire\/Rescue coordinates the department’s response to a simulated airplane crash during an exercise at Juneau International Airport on July 23, 2022. (Michael S. Lockett \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
“Good exercise. We don’t get enough of the exercises,” said Quinto, who has been involved in over a dozen such drills over the years. “It puts our system in play.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Airport firefighting vehicles extinguished the fire using water, Quinto said, not the dry foam that would typically be used to fight aviation fires.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
<\/a>A Capital City Fire\/Rescue firefighter talks to kids acting as casualties during an exercise simulating a plane crash at Juneau International Airport on July 23, 2022. (Michael S. Lockett \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
With the fires extinguished, the volunteers, simulating a variety of injuries ranging from compound fractures to squirting wounds to desocketed eyeballs took their positions, while CCFR personnel arrived on the scene, triaging their injuries.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Volunteer Kelton Griffith, 16, said he was involved because his father is an Army medic. Griffith’s injuries simulated the loss of an eye and the addition of debris to his leg.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t