Emergency Response Team Prepared at the Air Races

Police, fire, and medical response teams work together at the National Championship Air Races to be ready to respond to any given scenario on the field and in the stands, so you and your family are safe. 

They gear up for safety at the event. The emergency response team has to have on their equipment at all times so they're fully dressed, engines running, and ready to go.

"They give us everything that they have as pilots every single day, we give them everything that we have in the safety area," said Brian Taylor, the EMS Division Manager for REMSA at the Air Races.  

"With our medical and fire equipment, we preposition it all over the air field to give us quick response capability," said Tim Spencer, the Emergency Services Director for the Air Races. "It's a lot different than in our normal job in the fire station, where we're not responding from a station, out here we're responding from a position."

That's why it's crucial for emergency crews to be positioned nearby, like when there was a crash at the Air Races in 2011. 

"We in that situation transported 54 patients in 62 minutes with the resources that we have in the area," said Taylor. 

They're fully prepared to transport to the hospital if needed, but most of the medical work can be done on site. 

"Advanced life support personnel, a paramedic and EMT advanced to any incident that have here, they are fully equipped with gurneys to bring people back to the clinic here for stabilization," said Taylor. 

There are 80 people on staff with the emergency response teams on the field and in the stands in case you need any help.