About 400 volunteers, from members of the public to paramedics, police and fire department spent a day participating in a simulated accident.
The emergency call came in around 9 a.m. on Saturday. A plane had just crashed at the north end of Toronto Pearson’s airfield. An unknown number of passengers were screaming for help.
Amid the morning chaos, other officials in bright-coloured safety vests with the word “observer” on the back were wandering the scene, eavesdropping on those conversations and calmly taking notes, training their eyes on every detail of these interactions.
Transport Canada requires all airports to test their emergency response plans at least once every two years. At Pearson, the GTAA conducts a “table top” yearly to go through a scenario with all parts of the operations and then conduct a full-scale emergency exercise. “There’s a lot of facets of our team that are actually doing their observing of their own teams to ensure that their emergency protocols are followed,” said GTAA spokesperson Rachel Bertone. “This is going to test how fast we respond, how accurately we respond, and it provides us a way to better improve our safety procedures.
The two registered to participate in the event after Douglass learned in a GTAA newsletter in March of the call-out for volunteers to act as crash victims.
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