Many of you know how involved I am with Emergency Preparedness. Well, I went one "step" further last night.
I have taken the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training for the City of Folsom about 2 years ago. Last night (10-28-08) the class graduated their 5th class. There are now about 107 CERT volunteers for the City of Folsom.
I thought I would share a few of my taking a "step" further into emergency preparedness!
The graduating class participates in an emergency scenario. The scenario was a severe earthquake and the victims are in a two story office building. The CERT members are to use their new skills and search through the building for anyone caught in the earthquake.
Here is what happened to me! I was the victim of a crushed foot. When I was "found", I had a chair over my foot near the "bruising". It "was" very painful!
And this is what the CERT team did to rescue me... stopped the bleeding and put a splint around my ankle. It worked too! I couldn't move my ankle at all, but could still wiggle my toes. Naturally, that wouldn't happen, the victim would be in too much pain to want to wiggle their toes!
The team did a really great job at rescuing everyone.
Here are a couple more pictures of "Victims".
This lady had her arm "severed" and her husband was to be in shock and hysterical. He didn't have any injuries, just shock. This means that the two of them are in two different triage sites and he wanted to find her and be with her. When he "found out" about her injuries, he would ask about the "severed" arm... what happened to it and stuff like that. His roll was to leave the area to search for his wife, making the CERT team go and get him and try to keep him calm and eventually "reunite" him with his wife and her arm.
Here are two more victims...
If your community offers a CERT training program, I highly recommend that you participate in the course, if not to help out in the community, the training will provide some insight into what you can do to be more prepared at home when a disaster strikes.
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1 comment:
Those are pretty realistic looking injuries. I bet your team would be experts at putting a gory haunted house together. Actually, it's neat that you have so many volunteers prepared to help out. Good luck with getting even more.
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