With the swirl around him of injured accident victims and personnel from multiple response agencies treating them and processing for transport, Grangeville EMT and staging officer, Brian Adams, was adamant in one command:
“Try not to get any blood on the carpet,” he said as a patient was loaded into the back of his minivan. “My wife will yell less.”
Multiple city, state, county and federal emergency service and law enforcement agencies came together for more than two hours in Fenn last Saturday morning, May 12, to participate in a mass casualty incident exercise. This was the culmination of a few month’s planning to evaluate agencies on their procedures and implementation in such a situation.
“We’ll make a big report and we’ll give it to everybody, and they’ll look further into this on areas they can improve upon,” said spokesman Mike Neelon, manager for Latah County Disaster Services.