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Firefighters learn to transport an injured person.
Instructor Mark Urquhart.
Firefighters are debriefed at the end of atraining session Friday.
Mike McCabe of Alvinston and Ian Luckett of Erin assess
an accident scene during training.
Trial by fire
Volunteer firefighters learn
in high pressure scenarios
A car has collided with a tractor rolling the tractor
into a ditch, pinning the fanner underneath.
An infant not in a safety seat is found ejected from the
vehicle near a creek bank while the driver, also thrown
from the car, lies trapped under -the vehicle.
To make matters worse, the car now rests partially on
the tractor making it difficult to get 10 either victim.
without hurting the other more or causing a fatal injury.
This was the puzzle placed before a five -member team
taking a farm rescue course, part of an intense week of
courses in Seaforth held as a lead-in to last weekend's
Firefighters' Association of Ontario'annual convention. -
Coordinated by the Ontario Fire College from
Gravenhurst, instructors from the Municipal Health and
Safety Association were in Seaforth Wednesday through
Friday to help 'about 30 volunteer firefighters from
across the province be more prepared to handle the
unique challenges found in farm related accidents.
`"There's about 50 fatalities in the farming community
[in Ontario] every year. Many are children and young
people," said Ted Nelson, head instructor and
coordinator for the course. Mike McCabe (forefront) and Terry Weatherup of Alliston (arms up) help coordinate a team of firefighters's response to a
Continued on Page 7 farm accident simulation.•
Seaforth radicle Mark Milady (effl works with another firefighter with air bags to try and lift a car off a 'victim.'
Mark Shephard Ilett) of Forest helps another firefighter with a successful 'rescue' of an infant thrown
'from a car offer n collision with n tractor
Firefighters are debriefed on what went wrong with a complicated rescue
scenario.