Portal de Cartagena
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Effective Fire Corps Cartagena, organized by the NGO Action Fire and health of 061, have worked this morning in a simulated set of intervention in traffic accidents.
The drill was held in the Security Park and has recreated a collision between two vehicles, one of them had been turned with the wheels up and inside were trapped several victims, while the injured and relatives asked for help from around them.
Thirty health, twenty firefighters and a dozen extras municipal theater group have participated in this simulation to add realism to the scene to help the victims as if it were a real case, including from minor injuries to family members with pictures cases of anxiety or deaths.
Coordination is the key to any intervention, such as José Francisco said Scales, spokesman for the Fire in Action, whose group has come to intervene in Spain after the floods in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Haiti.
About 400 INTERVENTION TO ONES SUCH YEAR
As explained by the Councillor of Public Safety, Mariano García Asensio, this simulation is a common practice is to prepare jointly to both troops to act in a coordinated manner to any emergency.
Firefighters and 061 perform about 400 operations of this type per year, as indicated by the Fire Chief, Francisco Gomez intervals.
In case of accident, the first intervention should be to firefighters to secure the area and make the release of victims injured or open space inside the vehicle and, in severe cases, remove them safely out of the vehicle to stabilize.
Having controlled the perimeter, health services can serve patients, explains María del Mar Aledo, coordinator of the 061, a first assessment by examining the respiration, circulation and neurological status of each.
In addition to this drill, Gomez explains intervals, Fire and 061 are performing various recreations more during these weeks to be prepared for the different possibilities that can occur in a real accident.
Before the drill, have met in the training room of Fire Station in theory to explain what is going to develop below.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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