Brigade simulates London plane crash in 'largest ever exercise'

摘要

The exercise aimed to test local and national emergency response procedures to a major air crash incident in London. More than 220 emergency service personnel took part, including specialist Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams from London and across the country, the Metropolitan Police Service, and London Ambulance Service. It was a unique opportunity for the blue light services to work together effectively to practice the life-saving skills that would be used should a major incident ever occur in the capital. The exercise was based on the scenario that a plane has crashed into a building by the river in east London. The exercise featured a fuselage from a Boeing 737 plane, which a specialist rescue team from the London Fire Brigade had installed in the hanger of a large, derelict Victorian flour mill, known as Millennium Mills. Using 400 tonnes of rubble, the team spent four weeks creating a 'crash site,' and partially buried the plane's fuselage under the rubble. This created a realistic representation of an aircraft crashing into a building.