Archive for November, 2006

MCI Drill pictures posted

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The pictures that Fred Stipe took during the second day of the MCI drill have been posted. Go to the 53Maxwell space and click through SORS, and EMS or go directly to here.

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MCI Drill for the EMT classes

Monday, November 20th, 2006

The following article appeared in the DTH about the MCI drills that several members of SORS (Clint Osborn, Jordan Coates, Chris Dye, Cameron Lambert, and many others) put on for the DTCC EMT-B and EMT-I classes.

County gauges response efforts

By: Gray Caldwell, Assistant City Editor

Issue date: 11/15/06 Section: City

 

Chapel Hill Fire Department and Orange County Emergency Management officials assess how they reacted to a staged large-scale disaster Tuesday.

Media Credit: DTH/Keith Hodson

Chapel Hill Fire Department and Orange County Emergency Management officials assess how they reacted to a staged large-scale disaster Tuesday.

Imagine you’re standing on a packed bus riding home from school one day. The driver is about to make a stop, when all of a sudden a school bus runs through the intersection and rams into the side of your bus. Both buses slam into the side of a building.

Everyone at the scene is screaming, several people were thrown from the buses, and there are a dozen life-threatening injuries. How should first responders react?

That was the dilemma EMT students from across Orange County trained for Tuesday night.

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