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NASA Ames Fire Department to Perform Live Plane Fire Qualifying

.The NASA Ames Fire Department will certainly administer urgent response fire instruction on the west ramp of the Moffett Federal Airport in between 8 a.m. as well as 8 p.m. PDT Tuesday, Sept. 10 by means of Saturday, Sept. 14. The media and also everyone are advised that sirens may be actually clear and smoke plumes and also flames may show up from U.S. Road 101 throughout this time around. Having said that, officials generally anticipate little bit of to no smoke.The treatment will feature a real-time eat up created through a propane-fueled plane fire simulation at the industry. The exercise is meant to prep Ames fire responders and Ames Unexpected emergency Workflow Center workers for real-life fire urgents.For more details concerning NASA's Ames Proving ground, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/ames.- end-.Rachel HooverAmes , Silicon Valley650-604-4789rachel.hoover@nasa.gov.