07-07-2016, 06:27 PM
(07-07-2016, 11:07 AM)Skabungus Wrote: As a native Clevelander, I've heard whisperings from home, about how Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is offering courses in first aid........geared toward that type of first aid you'd need at a riot. Cleveland Marshal College of Law has been offering Legal Observer training as well. Classes have been going since late April and are disturbingly well attended. It just so happens that there will be a number of very large punk rock shows in town on the first day of the convention to boot things off. Methinks it's going to be a wild, wild week. Shame the CPD cant seem to figure out how to attach those body cams to that riot armor.
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Back in 2007 when I got my "Wilderness EMT" upgrade, our class consisted of 20 or so Outward Bound-type granola people who typically lead trips into real wildernesses.
Interestingly, we had in addition, two Coast Guard Rescue swimmers who had served at the Katrina disaster, two army medics and five Secret Service agents.
About half of the class scenarios over the five day period consisted of scenarios set in "regular" wildernesses, float trips, avalanches, snow storms, search-and-rescue, etc. The other half of the scenarios consisted of exercises designed around gun battles with multiple casualties, incidents in foreign countries with attendant language barriers, etc., and an emphasis on a couple scenarios in heavily populated urban settings where civilization has essentially broken down and definitive medical help is from two to many, many hours away.
There is a first principle in disasters - the folks IN the disaster are the REAL first responders. Police, firefighters, organized EMS services, by definition, come after that, if the folks in the disaster are lucky.
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