. . . . "Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center"@en . . . . "\"For decades . . . [ it has ] served as the main relocation site for the White House, the Supreme Court and much of the executive branch.\" Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, access to the operations center is via \"Route 601, also called Blue Ridge Mountain Road, in Bluemont, VA.\" The underground facility within Mount Weather designated \"Area B\" was completed in 1959. FEMA established training facilities on the mountain's surface (\"Area A\") in 1979. A net control station for the FEMA National Radio System (FNARS), a \"High Frequency radio system connecting most federal public safety agencies and U.S. military with most of the states\" is located here. FNARS provides presidential access to the Emergency Alert System. The site gained wider public recognition when The Washington Post mentioned the government facility while reporting on the December 1, 1974 crash into Mount Weather of TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727 jetliner. As of 2006, FEMA has 673 civilian employees assigned to Mount Weather. The Department of Homeland Security operates a fire department at the site, Mount Weather Fire & Rescue Company 21. Their first due area is Mount Weather itself, but they also respond to areas of both Clarke and Loudoun Counties as Company 21 under mutual aid agreements."@en . . . "\"For decades . . . [ it has ] served as the main relocation site for the White House, the Supreme Court and much of the executive branch.\" Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, access to the operations center is via \"Route 601, also called Blue Ridge Mountain Road, in Bluemont, VA.\" The underground facility within Mount Weather designated \"Area B\" was completed in 1959. FEMA established training facilities on the mountain's surface (\"Area A\") in 1979. A net control station for the FEMA National Radio System (FNARS), a \"High Frequency radio system connecting most federal public safety agencies and U.S. military with most of the states\" is located here. FNARS provides presidential access to the Emergency Alert System."@en . . . .