It was a week of havoc on Peterson Air Force Base – natural disasters, active shooters, planted radiological agents, and building lockdowns. During the quarterly Condor Crest exercise on Peterson AFB emergency crews wailed down the roads and emergency response and medical crews worked for five days.
This Condor Crest exercise, Aug. 16 to 20, left no skill untested. From start to finish, an estimated 75 percent of the base personnel were involved in one of the many scenarios that required employees to evacuate buildings, barricade doors for building lockdowns or seek shelter within the building when tornado sirens sounded.
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