A hangar at Mineta San Jose International Airport transformed into a makeshift disaster zone on Monday during a drill for emergency preparedness.
This year, emergency crews and airport employees, with the help of several volunteers, practiced responding to a large aircraft crash and fire resulting in multiple casualties.
In all, 115 people participated, including Cabrillo College nursing student Katherin Brenner.
“I’m imagining that I’m going to be learning a lot about triage,” Brenner said.
The airport conducts these disaster drills once every three years in order to evaluate whether or not emergency response methods need to be improved.
