WASHINGTON DART DELIVERS GEAR TO HEALTH CARE WORKERS
DISASTER AIRLIFT RESPONSE TEAM CELEBRATES 10 YEARS
June 4, 2020 By David Tulis
The Washington Disaster Airlift Response Team celebrated 10 years of emergency preparedness training by delivering more than 3,000 face shields to Walla Walla health care workers and followed up with canine airlifts that transported more than a dozen dogs from Mexico to their U.S. “forever homes” in Seattle.
Pilots and volunteers unload donated personal protective equipment after it was flown from California to Walla Walla, Washington, with coordination from Washington Disaster Airlift Response Team members. The Washington DART is celebrating its tenth year of disaster preparedness training. Photo courtesy of Bill Herrington.
A contingent of aviators and other residents have trained yearly since 2010 to formulate a disaster plan in the event of a natural disaster such as an earthquake. Experts have predicted that the region is long overdue for what locals call “the big one.” In that scenario, violent shaking from an earthquake would last “approximately 100 seconds” and rattle downtown Seattle’s 18 buildings under construction that are “240 feet or taller.”