{"id":11162,"date":"2021-09-28T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:13:34","slug":"yakima-air-terminal-mcallister-field-to-host-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-air-terminal-mcallister-field-to-host-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field to Host Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field will be the site of a full-scale exercise from 12:30 pm until 3:30 pm this coming Thursday, September 30<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergency scenario will simulate a Boeing 737 aircraft accident near the passenger terminal building located on the West General Aviation Apron. A passenger bus will be used to represent the downed aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People will see a variety of emergency response vehicles responding to and encompassing the exercise site,&#8221; said Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field Director Rob Peterson. &#8220;However, it will only be an exercise so there&#8217;s no need for the public to be worried. Flights will continue as scheduled and will not be impacted by the exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is anticipated there will be no traffic impacts at 24<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and Washington Avenue. However, the community may witness a few first responders in this area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full-scale exercise is required every three years for the Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field to remain current with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, said Peterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s exercise will be modified due to COVID-19. For example, first responders will treat simulated crash injuries using mannequins rather than volunteers to help minimize virus transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe exercise will be on a smaller scale than we might have witnessed in previous years,\u201d said Peterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday\u2019s exercise will take place in partnership with the Yakima Fire Department, Yakima Police Department, Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management, and Alaska Airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more about Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/flyykm.com\">https:\/\/flyykm.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Airport-Exercise-News-Release.pdf\">Airport-Exercise-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Airport-Exercise-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field will be the site of a full-scale exercise from 12:30 pm until 3:30 pm this coming Thursday, September 30th. The emergency scenario will simulate a Boeing 737 aircraft accident near the passenger terminal building located on the West General Aviation Apron. A passenger bus will be used to represent the downed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11164,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}