To be well prepared for a\nmajor earthquake or other substantial hazard event, the state must have a\ncomplete inventory of existing airport facilities and understand their\npotential for emergency usage. This project created a comprehensive inventory\nof airport characteristics and surrounding facilities at 23 general aviation\nairports in Western Washington to be used by WSDOT\u2019s Aviation Division, the\nWashington Military Department, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency\n(FEMA) in the event of a major emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before this project, there was\nno single source of information for all such facilities in Western Washington. The\nresearchers made site visits to 23 airports and collected information such as\neach airport\u2019s layout, size, runway characteristics, and access; surrounding\npavement and land; resident aircraft support services; buildings that could be\nrepurposed; contacts for local emergency management and incident command; and\nnearby public and private resources that might be useful during emergencies\nsuch as hospitals, schools, and relevant retailers. They also assessed each\nairport\u2019s ability to serve as a base for medical triage and transfer, airborne\nsearch and rescue, and a staging area or depot for delivery of emergency\nsupplies and personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inventoried airports were\nlocated in Anacortes, Arlington, Auburn, Bremerton, Burlington, Camas,\nChehalis, Eastsound (Orcas Island), Friday Harbor (San Juan Island), Kelso,\nKent, Lopez, Olympia, Port Townsend, Puyallup, Quillayute, Renton, Sequim,\nShelton, Snohomish, Tacoma, Toledo, and Vancouver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The resulting information\nwill be used as an appendix to the Washington State Aviation All Hazards Plan\nand is required for the state\u2019s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Easy\naccess to this consolidated information by governmental emergency responders\n(the resulting report and website are not available to the public) will\nincrease the state\u2019s emergency preparedness and overall safety for Washington residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authors:\u00a0 To be well prepared for a major earthquake or other substantial hazard event, the state must have a complete inventory of existing airport facilities and understand their potential for emergency usage. This project created a comprehensive inventory of airport characteristics and surrounding facilities at 23 general aviation airports in Western Washington that will increase the state\u2019s emergency preparedness and overall safety for Washington residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airports","category-research-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mark E. Hallenbeck
Alon Bassok
Dmitri Zyuzin
Amy O\u2019Brien
Washington State Transportation Center-UW
Sponsor: WSDOT
WSDOT Technical Monitor:\u00a0John MacArthur<\/a>
WSDOT Project Manager:\u00a0Jon Peterson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"