LAHORE – Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Wednesday conducted afull scaleemergency exercise here at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore inwhich the CAAfire and medical services played a pivotal role.
To make the event closer to reality,CAA arranged toextinguish a large scale fire at the airport after which thesimulated injured were rescued promptly from the aircraft bythe CAA fire fighters and handed over to medical services toprovide necessary first aid to the casualties on sight andtransported them to nearest hospital for medical treatment.Pak Army,Pakistan Air Force (PAF),Punjab Emergency Service(Rescue 1122),city government health services,PIA,Edhiambulances and other departments participated along with CAAmedical services.
The entire exercise proceedings were observed by PakArmy,various hospitals and HQ CAA.They appreciated the roleperformed by CAA fire fighters, medical services, and otherparticipating agencies.
Earlier, addressing on the occasion, Airport ManagerSardar Tahir Sikandar said the purpose of the exercise was toapply risk management,appropriate control measures associatedwith aircraft incidents and evaluate the effectiveness ofemergency plan made by CAA to counter any fire incident.
“We are able to deal with any kind of emergencyeffectively with the cooperation of other departments”,he added.He also appreciated the participation of Pak Army,PAF,Rescue 1122 and other departments in the mock exercise.