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Volume 63, Number 39                 Serving the community of Edwards Air Force Base, California       April 8, 2016

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by Kenji Thuloweit                     California City Police arrived at                                                                                                                                                                          Air Force photograph by Kenji Thuloweit
Editor                               the scene on Karen Ave. followed
                                     by all three participating civil-     $&DOLIRUQLD&LW\¿UH¿JKWHUPDNHVKLVZD\WRVDIHW\DIWHUVWRNLQJVRPHÀDPHVWRVLPXODWHDQDLUFUDIWFUDVKVLWH
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Edwards Air Force base emergen-      “wounded” citizens.
cy responders for Exercise Desert
Wind 16-02 April 4.                    Back at Edwards, Crisis Action
                                     Team and Emergency Operations
  The scenario for this training     Center members were immediately
exercise was a crash involving       recalled to their stations while re-
a United Kingdom F-35 based out      ports from off base were coming in.
of Edwards. The crash site was in
the middle of California City, 20      2QFHWKHLQLWLDO¿UHDQGYLFWLPV
minutes north of the base.           were treated, the civilian respond-
                                     ers turned the scene over to Ed-
  The Edwards Fire Department,       wards AFB Fire Department and
Explosive Ordnance Disposal, In-     emergency responders while de-
VSHFWRU*HQHUDO2I¿FHDQG(PHU-      fenders from the 412th Security
gency Management, partnered up       Forces Squadron cordoned off the
with the California City Police and  area.
Fire Departments and the Bakers-
¿HOGDQG.HUQ&RXQW\)LUH'HSDUW-      Fighter jet crashes pose an ex-
ments.                               ceptional risk when responding
                                     because of special hazards such as
  In a real world emergency, lo-     weapons and chemicals that can be
FDODJHQFLHVZLOOEHWKHRQHV¿UVW  present at the crash site.
on the scene so it’s important for
military responders to have clear      Members of the Wing Inspection
communication and coordination       Team observed the onsite proce-
channels with those agencies.        dures, while back at Edwards, the
                                     Crisis Action Team and Emergency
  Simulated 911 calls began at       Operations Center communicate
DPUHSRUWLQJDGRZQHG¿JKW-
er jet of some sort.                               See EXERCISE, Page 8

            The next Edwards AFB town hall meeting will be
held 5-7 p.m., April 14 at the Airman and Family Readiness Center.
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