EMS Crews, Israeli Military and Fire and Rescue Department Conduct Collaborative Drill Mimicking MCI Missile Strike on Military Base

Jerusalem, - On Monday, United Hatzalah volunteer EMS organization together with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s Fire and Rescue Department held a combined training drill which mimicked missile attack on a military base that resulted in a mass casualty incident (MCI). The drill was held in the live fire shooting range of Mitvach 24 near the town of Rishon LeZion  and included evacuation by IDF helicopter and logistical and practical cooperation between all organizations. During the drill, the teams collaborated to treat some dozen injured people inside the base, whose level of injuries differed from person to person. Simultaneously, a serious head-on collision occurred between two cars wherein five people were moderate to seriously injured and trapped inside the vehicles, which had caught fire. United Hatzalah first responders operated under their MCI protocol and worked to triage the victims in the field, provide treatment and then, together with the IDF medical teams, airlift them to the hospital. Firefighters who arrived at the scene began extinguishing the flames around the vehicles and those that erupted due to the missile strike. They then extricated the injured from the vehicles utilizing specialized tools to cut open and pry the vehicle parts away from the passengers. At which point United Hatzalah EMS volunteers as well as paramedics and EMTs from the base began treating the injured. Some of the injured were evacuated via helicopter due to the se...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Training News Operations Source Type: news