Town of Warwick Conducts Mass
Casualty Incident Drill Photos
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Emergency services personnel conducted a town wide Mass
Casualty Incident (MCI) drill on Saturday October 10th.
MCI drills are conducted
annually throughout the town for the purpose of honing
critical skills and testing the interoperability of the
various agencies.
The Warwick Fire Department hosted the drill and was joined
by fire and ambulance crews from Pine Island, Florida and
Greenwood Lake. The Town of Warwick Police Department, St.
Anthony Hospital and the Departments of Public Works
from both the Town and the Village of Warwick also
participated. Local students volunteered as victims.
The drill was divided into
two phases. The first involved a simulated spill of an
unknown chemical substance with several people injured.
Warwick Fire, EMS and Police
responded to this incident, stabilizing the scene,
transporting the patients and assisting the hospital with
de-contamination procedures.
While
 that
scenario was unfolding, mutual aid assistance from the
town’s other emergency agencies were summoned to standby for
Warwick Fire and EMS. When they had arrived at their standby
locations, they were dispatched to the second phase of the
drill, a simulated explosion and fire with multiple victims
at the Sanfordville Elementary School.
The mutual aid fire companies responded, controlled the fire
and removed the victims from the building.
EMS crews then triaged and treated the wounded before
transporting them to the hospital.
The drill tested the ability of our emergency services to
cope with two major emergencies occurring simultaneously.
During the critique, which followed, the participants judged
the drill an overall success.
Story and photos by Thom Cronin |
