{"id":2450511,"date":"2019-10-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315228"},"modified":"2019-10-30T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:00:00","slug":"smass-history-from-drill-to-near-disaster-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/smass-history-from-drill-to-near-disaster-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u2019mass History: From drill to near disaster, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-svs-103019-1-1024x804.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-svs-103019-1-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-svs-103019-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/history-svs-103019-1-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>One b\/w photograph of two men giving medical assistance to a person on the ground in front of the Stonebridge Inn in Snowmass Village. It was a mock scenario, part of the Biannual Pitkin County Disaster Drill. It appeared on the front page of The Aspen Times on Oct. 27, 1983.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">\u201cA disaster? The drill almost was,\u201d The Aspen Times headline read Oct. 27, 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cDespite educational value for emergency personnel who participated in it, last Thursday\u2019s disaster drill at the Stonebridge Inn in Snowmass Village was dampened by flaws that could have proved fatal to some of its \u2018victims\u2019 had the situation been real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cPlanned by Snowmass Wildcat fire department head Brad Jefferson as a major lodge fire compounded by various peripheral cases, the drill got off to a shaky start when two real disasters occurred just as the drill was scheduled to begin. The first was a fire at the Aspen Alps, followed by a civil dispute involving weapons in the Capitol Creek area,\u201d the article stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/smass-history-from-drill-to-near-disaster-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One b\/w photograph of two men giving medical assistance to a person on the ground in front of the Stonebridge Inn in Snowmass Village. It was a mock scenario, part of the Biannual Pitkin County Disaster Drill. It appeared on the front page of The Aspen Times on Oct. 27, 1983.Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori \u201cA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 10:41:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}