GREAT FALLS The Great Falls International Airport turned into the site of a large-scale emergency response drill Thursday as crews carried out a federally mandated simulation designed to test how first responders would react to a mass-casualty incident at the airport.

Aneesa Coomer reports - watch the video:

The Assistant Airport Director for Operations and Maintenance, Brian Cowles, says, Any time we would have an event here at the airport, its going to require a joint effort from the entire community to get it taken care of.

The Federal Aviation Administration requires commercial airports to conduct a full-scale emergency exercise every three years. For Great Falls, that meant coordinating a multi-agency response involving airport staff, the Montana Air National Guard, local fire depa

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