They did not alert the El Paso city manager or the El Paso mayor. So everyone locally on the ground was in the dark. And the impact ob is highly consequential. Closing airspace to everything and everyone means that you're not just halting training activity that's happening at our military installation. You're not just impeding and halting all commercial travel. You're also impacting medevacs, for example, and emergency helicopters that fly. you know, that need access to the airspace in case of an emergency overnight. My team and I spent a significant amount of time trying to find out what happened, why this was happening. (27:55–28:22)
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