Response times were a topic of discussion Monday during an airport authority board meeting, as was the crash that took Marriane Fox’s life.
Response times were a topic of discussion Monday during an airport authority board meeting, as was the crash that took Fox’s life. Bruce Kreis witnessed it.
But he really paid close attention to the length of time it took firefighters to locate and rescue Fox, who was trapped in her cockpit while her plane was inverted in the water. While trapped, she was still in communication with the control tower. It was only after she was rescued and taken to the hospital when she died from her injuries.
The day after the crash, St. Augustine fire officials would not say how long it took them to get to Fox, but said they had to get an airboat in the water to get to her location, which they said was 600 yards from the end of the runway. Critics of the response time say an airboat, or some kind of watercraft, should have been readily available to deploy from airport property.“We had sheriff helicopters at the other end of the field that could have been there in five minutes.
Bruce Maguire is the airport authority chairman. He said he’s all for making sure rescuers can respond to a crash in a timely manner, but he also says airports this size — compared to much larger airports — don’t have that kind of money to spend, so they have to rely heavily on community services, like the city’s fire department.
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