WILLIAMSTOWN — Local firefighters were being trained with how to respond to aircraft crashes during specialized training Wednesday at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.
The West Virginia University State Fire Academy was onsite at the airport with a number of simulators, including a fuselage simulator and a helicopter simulator to help firefighters learn what to do if an aircraft crashes locally and what needs to be done to rescue people inside. There was also a simulator to simulate a spreading fuel fire on the ground.
Over the past couple of years there was an incident where a tree-trimming helicopter crashed in the Belleville area in March and a small airplane that crashed outside of Marietta in October 2022…