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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - The residents of Vieux Fort in the south of
the island are being told not to be too alarmed when a full scale plane crash
simulation gets underway at the Hewanorra International Airport on September 15,
2004. Director of the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO), Ms. Dawn
French said the simulation will culminate a series of ongoing briefings on
Emergency Operation Centre Management (EOC).
“It’s a workshop to show the staff of Hewanorra International who will be in the
EOC when something happens at the airport exactly how to set up the office and
the kind of pressures they can expect. Psychological, pressures from the press,
the families or just doing a response and so we will be going through that over
the three days of the workshop.”
According to Ms. French the simulation exercise has to be conducted every two
years in compliance with international regulations. “As we get towards the
simulation date on the 15th , we have a series of international evaluators who
will begin arriving. The first one arrives on the ninth to start to putting
together because so locals will be evaluating this simulation because we are all
role players so we can’t evaluate ourselves.”
The simulation of a plane crash will take place in collaboration with the
medical sector, and the emergency services, including the police and fire
department.
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