Emergency Response
2010-04-21 23:47:37.849295+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Scenes from a Citywide Disaster, With Mannequins:
...The first person they encounter is a young man covered in blood, running toward them.
“Aaaaaaaaugh!” says the man, waving his arms. “Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
This is a sign that he is probably alright.
Monday before I had the last class of the 40 hour CERT training. We had the class split up into two teams, one doing search & rescue inside a darkened building with various obstacles and challenges, one taking the survivors extracted from that doing triage and first aid. The class had its value and limits, but overall I think it was worth doing, and now I'm looking forward to doing some more of these exercises.
It's been ages since I had my various certs, but one of the amusing things is that the class is taught with the assumption that, unlike most first aid situations, in a disaster situation the rescuer to victim ratio is low, thus I had to un-learn the stock reaction: If they weren't breathing and a head tilt didn't start 'em, mark 'em as dead and move on.