Cooperative Training Project, July 2004
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The Austin - Saltillo training project for July 2004 was a mass-casualty disaster drill,
consisting of an overcrowded microbus crashing at a gasoline station.
The drill was impressive for the number of local agencies participating, including private sector,
metro and state police, first responder and ambulance agencies.
The drill was conceived and led by the Saltillo Fire Department.
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"It Was Only A Drill" a headline from the next day's paper reassures the citizens.
Click the small newspaper to see the story and pictures from El Diario, July 25, 2004.
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For extra effect, a theater fog machine fills the microbus with smoke.
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Firefighters and friends acting as victims were made up with realistic looking injuries.
Austin firefighters provide material and training for moulage, the art of gruesome wound makeup.
The students quickly surpassed the instructors.
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People made up as victims were put in the overturned microbus and on the ground.
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Rescue teams have to take care of the victims and remove them from the van.
Saltillo Bomberos perform the extrications, handing out patients to the twenty ambulances in staging.
All patients are transported within forty five minutes.
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Paramedics triage the patients and treat their injuries.
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The Participants
30 Firefighters, 10 Civil Protection officers, 3 instructors,
3 Private Companies, 4 Prevention Police officers, 20 ambulances,
and the employees of the gasoline station.
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