GREAT FALLS — The Great Falls International Airport turned into the site of a large-scale emergency response drill Thursday as crews carried out a federally mandated simulation designed to test how first responders would react to a mass-casualty incident at the airport.

Aneesa Coomer reports - watch the video: Exercise tests mutual aid emergency response at Great Falls airport

The Assistant Airport Director for Operations and Maintenance, Brian Cowles, says, “Any time we would have an event here at the airport, it’s going to require a joint effort from the entire community to get it taken care of.”

The Federal Aviation Administration requires commercial airports to conduct a full-scale emergency exercise every three years. For Great Falls, that meant coordinating a multi-agency respon

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