Disaster Relief

Anxiety attacks, severed limbs and third-degree burns were treated during a mock plane crash at Ho`olehua airport’s triennial emergency training simulation last Thursday.

As students from Aka`ula School tapped into their dramatization skills, the Federal Aviation Administration tested airport staff and Molokai’s police and fire departments for their compliance with emergency regulations.  The exercise also analyzed the communication between local emergency responders and their county and state counterparts.