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It’s not every day that the president pays a visit to Colorado’s High Country.
While Joe Biden’s whirlwind trip — from the airport in Gypsum up to Camp Hale via motorcade and then back onto Air Force One before flying off to California — brought the Secret Service, White House staff and numerous people to town from Washington D.C., many local individuals, businesses, agencies and organizations made it a reality.
From the smallest details like finding tables and chairs to preparing the Eagle County Regional Airport tarmac for Air Force One, working seamlessly behind the scenes were members of Eagle County law enforcement, U.S. Forest Service employees, Beaver Creek Resort and Nova Guides staff as well as many local residents.
The logistics of the presidential visit are comparable to that of putting together an instant command team for emergency events like wildfires — at least according to David Boyd, the public affairs officer for the White River National Forest.
“That same structure works for these kinds of complicated events where you need logistics and you need information and you need the planning people that put it all together and all those sorts of things,” Boyd said, adding that the positions were more logistics-heavy and different than what they would be in the event of a fire.
Courtesy of the Summit Daily News.
