{"id":408450,"date":"2024-04-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=408450"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"CPA-hosts-full-scale-Triennial-Airport-Disaster-Drill-last-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/CPA-hosts-full-scale-Triennial-Airport-Disaster-Drill-last-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"CPA hosts full-scale Triennial Airport Disaster Drill last weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority, over the weekend, hosted a required full-scale Airport Disaster Drill which entailed a simulated plane crash and simulated injured passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, CPA held its 2024 full-scale Triennial Airport Disaster Drill at the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan International Airport which simulated a plane crash involving about 200 people.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in last Friday\u2019s drill were Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority, and volunteers from the Public School System Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Present to observe the drill were CPA Board vice chair Antonio B. Cabrera and Rep. Manny Castro (Ind-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Castro, he said it\u2019s always good to be proactive about natural disasters and emergencies<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to see that our first responders [like Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting], the airport facility staff, and outside partners [like] CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency taking a proactive approach in preparation for situations like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a statement from Cabrera, he said there is always room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be prepared at all times. We have to be proactive. This is the kind of situation that we don\u2019t look forward to. But we have to prepared at all times. Everything seems ok but there is always room to improve. It seems we were a little behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to CPA, the drill is a requirement under the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s regulations that requires each U.S. airport to conduct a full-scale drill every three years.<\/p>\n<p>It helps CPA review and assess its response to a disaster should it occur at the Saipan airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exercise is required by the Federal Aviation Administration to help CPA assess their response to a disaster should it occur at the airport,\u201d said CPA.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/2dfcf05e72eb4a7202eebff557557ae0.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the Commonwealth Ports Authority held its 2023 full scale Triennial Airport Disaster Drill at the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan International Airport which simulated a plane crash involving about 200 people.<\/p>\n<p>-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/3e8040866d6704e1d19767ec1da91a4c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Also participating in last Friday\u2019s drill were Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority, and volunteers from the Public School System Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps.<\/p>\n<p>-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/d4b17bee5bc7ce0c8e314069afab5536.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The drill is a requirement under the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s regulations that requires each U.S. airport to conduct a full-scale drill every three years.<\/p>\n<p>-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority, over the weekend, hosted a required full-scale Airport Disaster Drill which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}