Keep in mind that every
community should exercise their emergency plans, and procedures with a simple
walk-thru, drill, table-top, functional, or full-scale exercise. Check in your local community at your
FIRE\EMS, or Emergency Management Office\Agency for exercises being scheduled.
April and May are prime time
for exercises.
Get involved. Participate, observe, and understand the
coordination, and who will be doing what when a disaster or crisis strikes your
community. Exercises should be designed
as realistic as possible. Now is a time
to use your acting skills and abilities.
From a real-world event of
assisting someone out of a burning car, administering an antidote, each
involves keeping a level head to respond accordingly and not panic. Exercises contribute to keeping calm in a
panic situation.
Be safe, be prepared, get
involved.
BEMA International
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The
Maryland Regional National Life
Support (NDLS) Coalition will be conducting a disaster exercise with emergency medical personnel on May 31, 2019 in College Park, Maryland.
The Maryland
Responds State Program is requesting volunteers to act as disaster victims
during this exercise.
Location:
College Park, MD (Check-in
location/address will be provided to confirmed volunteers)
Date: May 31, 2019
Time: 7:15 AM – 3:00 PM
Volunteer Positions Needed:
Twenty Maryland Responds volunteers are needed to act as disaster victims in a simulated disaster scenario. This volunteer role will assist participants in the Advanced Disaster Life Support training to practice mass casualty triage during a simulated disaster. Volunteers will be given instructions such as a script and injuries to act out.
Volunteer Requirements:
Completion of all Road to Readiness requirements.
See attached
checklist and log in to your Responder profile to view your ‘Training’ tab to
see where you are on the Road to Readiness.
Volunteers
should be comfortable standing and lying down on the ground outside for
periods of time.
Volunteers
should also be comfortable with having mock injuries applied (moulage).
Transportation: Volunteers should be
able to transport themselves to and from this event.
Additional Information: Lunch and
water will be provided.
Parking is free.
Use
the link below to sign up:
More
information will be shared with the volunteers who are selected to volunteer
at this event.
Thank you,
Maryland Responds Medical Reserve Corps |
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