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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Massport and several mutual aid partners held an emergency training exercise at Logan International Airport Friday.
The exercise is required by the Federal Aviation Administration every three years to test the communication, coordination, and response in the event of a major incident at Logan.
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Friday's scenario on Runway 14 saw two planes loaded with passengers colliding together and catching on fire.
"We're fortunate that we have an area that we can isolate the drill, so that we don't interrupt the rest of the airfield while we're doing that," said Massport Director of Aviation Ed Freni. "Plus, we have to notify the communities around us so nobody gets terrified that something real is happening. But we have to replicate it and do it as if it was real."
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Firefighters and EMS triaged, assisted, and transported more than 100 volunteer victims ranging from walking wounded to deceased.
"We have to train from soup to nuts, and we have to make sure that all the way from communications to response, communications between our mutual aid partners, internal and external, and that's really what it is. It's all about training for us," Massport Fire Chief Joseph DeGrace.
Massport Fire Captain David Fall told WBZ NewsRadio this first responder training will make all the difference should the hypothetical ever become the real.
"That's literally what we do, is we prepare for this one scenario in a 30-year career to actually help a bunch of people," Fall said.
WBZ's Kendall Buhl reports.
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