October 4, 2010 - The Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness announce the following:
Caddo Bossier Community to Conduct Large Scale Disaster Drill in Concert with Shreveport Regional Airport Authority

As part of the Caddo-Bossier annual disaster preparedness program to improve multi-parish emergency response readiness, over 500 members of the community will participate in a full scale disaster drill on Wednesday October 6, 2010 starting at the Shreveport Regional Airport on various elements of the facility, cumulating in a surge of simulated injured victims (patients) to eight regional hospitals. First responders (fire, EMS, police, communications, and emergency personnel) from the City of Shreveport, Bossier City, Caddo & Bossier Parishes, state agencies and the Shreveport Regional Airport community will respond as a unified command to a simulated “aircraft incident” on a designated area of the airport facility. Over 200 local college and high school students through out the region will assist in role playing designed to stress emergency departments and test hospital response resources and planning. The full scale exercise will be conducted in compliance with regulatory requirements that airport facilities like Shreveport Regional, test via drills, emergency plans and procedures every three years.

Additional details on the exercise will be provided on site by the Shreveport Airport Authority incident command public information officer and the Caddo Bossier Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness staff.

Local media are invited to observe the training on October 6, 2010 by arriving at the parking lot north of TAC Air (Shreveport Regional Airport) not later than 8:30 a.m.