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Hyannis
Barnstable Municipal Airport
Disaster Drill 2018
September 5, 2018
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The Disaster Drill included fires, extrications, triage and treatment, and
practice of the incident command and communications systems.
2018 BMA Disaster Drill
Crews from many of the
Cape's
fire departments participated in the
2018 Barnstable Municipal Airport Disaster Drill on
September 5, 2018.
This year, the scenario involved a mid-air collision with one
aircraft crashing into Lewis Bay
requiring a marine rescue response of several fire rescue boats conducting
search & rescue,
search patterns, and rescue operations on the water. The second aircraft
crash landed at the
airport with over 20 patients on board.
Shortly after 1700 hours on a pleasant Wednesday evening, the
response was initiated.
The BMA ARFF Truck 820 arrived first and began fighting the fires while Hyannis
crews arrived and began establishing an MCI command structure, triaging
patients, setting
up treatment areas, and conducting extrication on various wrecked vehicles.
Additional crews from COMM, Barnstable, West Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis,
Brewster, Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, and Sandwich worked together
actually transporting patients to CCH where the triage and treatment continued
providing hospital staff with the MCI experience.
Similar drills are held about every 3 years to keep the
airport and emergency
crews well trained in Mass Casualty Incidents.
Previous Drills
October 2003
September 2009
October 2012
October 2015
The Jaws of Life and various other extrication tools were used
Triage tags identify the priority or viability of victims
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