Huron Expositor, 2000-08-09, Page 7II -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 9, 2000
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 farmer underneath:'
An infant itbt in a safety seat is found ejected from the
vehicle near a creek bank while the driven also thrown
from the can lies :rapped under the vehicle.
To make matters worse, the car now rests partially on
the tractor making it difficult to get to either victim
without hurting the other more Orcausing a fatal injury.
This was the puzzle placed before a five -member team
taking a faun 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 Nielson, head instructor and
coordinator for the course: Mike McCobe.(forefront) and Terry Weatherup of Alliston (arms up) help coordinate a team of firefighters•s response to a
cid on page 7 farm accident simulation.
Seaforth rookie Mark Melody (left) works with another firefighter with air bags to try and lift a car off a "victim."
Mork Shephard (left) of Forest helps another firefighter with a successful "rescue' of on infant thrown
from a car after o collision with a tractor
Firefighters are debriefed on what went wrong with a complicated rescue
scenario.