Sept. 17--CHESTERFIELD --A training exercise for firefighters over the next few days will bring fire and smoke to Spirit of St. Louis Airport, and they want you to know it's nothing to worry about.
The Monarch Fire Protection District is hosting the training today through Thursday on the airport grounds, near the west end of Edison Avenue. Several other fire districts and departments will join in the training.
Sessions from 1 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. will feature classroom instruction and hands-on training fighting fires on an aircraft crash simulator.
That training uses a new simulator from the University of Missouri Fire and Rescue Training Institute.
The training is conducted every two years.
Similar training was held at Lambert St. Louis-International Airport last week.
A fire drill at Boston's Logan Airport on Sept. 11 drew complaints from some who felt it was insensitive on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Two of the hijacked planes took off from Logan Airport.
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