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The Newfoundland Airport, later renamed the Gander International Airport, was built in 1938–39 to deliver regular flight services that supported aircraft refueling stopovers for flights travelling from New York, United States to London, United Kingdom. It is also the site of significant aviation disaster and large-scale emergency events thathave brought the world to Gander (and Gander to the world), including the Arrow Air Flight 1285 crash in 1985 and the accommodation of diverted aircraft, passengers, and crew on September 11, 2001. Since its inception, the Airport and the citizens of the subsequently developed Town of Gander have played an essential role in coordinating and delivering Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) program services (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery) pertaining to aviation disaster and emergency events. Over the past century, the Town of Gander and the Gander International Airport have also been the site of accumulated experiences, learnings, and developed skills from these efforts, all of which have become part of Gander’s unique history and have resulted in the establishment of comprehensive and integrated municipal and airport DEM plans critical to future responses.
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Betty Mullaly-Moulton was raised in Northern Bay, Conception Bay, NL. She has resided in Gander since 1985. Betty holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Memorial University and a Graduate Diploma in Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) from Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC. She worked as a Social Worker and Social Work Manager for 25 years and a Regional Health Emergency Manager for 8 years. In 2010, Betty set up a DEM consulting company named DEM-NL Consulting and after 14 years in private practice she retired from the same. Since retirement, she has written and published two books: Gander’s Response to 9/11: A Story of Preparedness, Partnerships, and Philanthropy and Newfoundland’s Icon Past: Stories, Lore, and Ballads from Conception Bay’s North Shore. She is currently writing volume two of her second book.
Dr. Emily M. Doyle is a Registered Psychologist, counsellor educator, and consultant. She is the Program Director of the Master of Counselling program at Athabasca University, and her academic research interests include studying the social and institutional organization of front-line professional practices and experience. After growing up in another major airport town in Newfoundland (Stephenville), she was excited to contribute to the formation of this article highlighting the experience, skills, and learnings that have been built across decades by responders and community members in Gander.