Training for a disaster
May 17, 2013 6:38:34 GMT -5
Post by midnightrider on May 17, 2013 6:38:34 GMT -5
More than 20 Freeland High School students portrayed injured victims during the Tri-Annual Emergency Exercise Thursday at MBS International Airport. The emergency drill, which is held every three years, is a way for first responders and different emergency agencies test their response to larger tragic situations.
This year’s training revolved around various live-shooter scenarios. The drill started off with live shots fired in the old airportterminal involving the students as victims. Law enforcement officials had to enter the building, take care of the live shooter and secure the area so that medical first responders could take care of the multiple casualties.
Freeland High School students were given instructions on how to act according to their injuries.
“I loved it. It was a lot of fun and a very good idea.” said Freeland senior Jerad Jaros, 18, who participated as a victim. “It opens your eyes to see how things would roll out if it actually happened. If that was real, I’d be dead.”
The exercise included members from the Michigan State Police, Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office, Tittabawasse Fire Department, MMR, McLaren Bay Region, Covenant Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, to name a few.
www.ourmidland.com/news/article_0640b7f5-2068-5314-9a0c-f0c4361e0525.html
After a meeting last night. I asked about how this went. After listening to someone very closely involved, my take away was, it was a lot of confusion and even those that are supposedly trained for these situations could not get good comms through the radios. Some didn't hear certain orders/commands, to much traffic etc. At the TCCC it was evident that this a real weak point in everyones plans. I don't offer any solutions to this but just want to assure us that we are not the only ones that will have to overcome this. Also in there credits as to who was there, they didn't mention a lot of the .gov types that participated in this. One other thing that was brought up was the fact that a jamming device had not been utilized in the scenario. That might be a tid bit of info someone could use.
This year’s training revolved around various live-shooter scenarios. The drill started off with live shots fired in the old airportterminal involving the students as victims. Law enforcement officials had to enter the building, take care of the live shooter and secure the area so that medical first responders could take care of the multiple casualties.
Freeland High School students were given instructions on how to act according to their injuries.
“I loved it. It was a lot of fun and a very good idea.” said Freeland senior Jerad Jaros, 18, who participated as a victim. “It opens your eyes to see how things would roll out if it actually happened. If that was real, I’d be dead.”
The exercise included members from the Michigan State Police, Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office, Tittabawasse Fire Department, MMR, McLaren Bay Region, Covenant Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, to name a few.
www.ourmidland.com/news/article_0640b7f5-2068-5314-9a0c-f0c4361e0525.html
After a meeting last night. I asked about how this went. After listening to someone very closely involved, my take away was, it was a lot of confusion and even those that are supposedly trained for these situations could not get good comms through the radios. Some didn't hear certain orders/commands, to much traffic etc. At the TCCC it was evident that this a real weak point in everyones plans. I don't offer any solutions to this but just want to assure us that we are not the only ones that will have to overcome this. Also in there credits as to who was there, they didn't mention a lot of the .gov types that participated in this. One other thing that was brought up was the fact that a jamming device had not been utilized in the scenario. That might be a tid bit of info someone could use.