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Flagstaff Airport after-action: exercise showed strong interagency response but flagged staffing, patient-tracking and radio gaps
Summary
Flagstaff emergency management, airport and public-safety staff presented findings from the airport’s 2024 full-scale emergency exercise, noting strong multiagency coordination but identifying staffing, patient-tracking and radio-communications gaps.
Flagstaff emergency management, airport and public-safety staff presented the after-action report and improvement plan for the airport’s 2024 triennial full-scale exercise, Operation Ready Flag, which simulated an alert‑3 aircraft incident with mass casualties. Council and staff described the drill as one of the largest-scale exercises in the state since 2018.
Stacy Brecklenecks, emergency management director, and Brian Gull, airport director, led the briefing. Gull explained the Flagstaff Airport must meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements under 14 CFR part 139, which include a full-scale emergency exercise at least once every three years. The 2024 scenario included an aircraft crash on the de-icing pad, heavy smoke from a simulated wildfire and a surge of patients transported to Flagstaff Medical Center by ground and air.
Daniel Kelly, the city’s emergency program manager,…
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