Airport Authority aims to make PG top training site
PRINCE GEORGE – There is a giant tube, similar to a culvert, on a site behind the Prince George Airport. It is designed to represent the fuselage of a plane that has crashed.
“The stated purpose for an emergency response at the airport is to provide egress for any survivors of an aircraft disaster,” explains Gordon Duke, President and CEO of the Prince George Airport Authority. “When the other responding agents, and agencies get on site, they are going to be taking over. It’s up to us as an airport to provide that initial response.”
And that’s what the firefighters at the Prince George Airport train to do on a regular basis. And the training done at the Prince George Airport is like none other because it is the closest thing to a real emergency.