Two teens prepared to apply a traction splint to the leg of a young girl.
It wasn’t the real thing, just a demonstration.
Fluvanna High School emergency medical technician (EMT) students explained the proper procedures and the reason for each step. Teacher Stephanie Corbin stood silently by as they worked.
Corbin, a Culpeper native who taught EMT and paramedic classes in Loudon County, is teaching the first two classes of 17 students who hope to join the ranks of rescue squads.
Matt Kolezynski, 17, is already a junior firefighter with Lake Monticello Volunteer Fire and Rescue (LMVFR). “My dad was a firefighter on Long Island and it was the only thing that held my interest,” Kolezynski said. “Because I’m already a firefighter I wanted to expand into rescue.”
Shortly after a unit on signs of cardiac arrest, he went on a run with LMVFR. The patient was having chest pain, and watching the EMT and paramedics assess and treat the patient brought it all back to Kolezynski.