SJAM Penang activated for Airport
Disaster Mock Exercise
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SJAM EMAS Penang was called to join in the Penang International Airport (PIA),
Air Disaster Mock Exercise on Friday night, 30 November 2007.
The "distress" call came in from the Fire and Rescue Department Bayan Baru
Station, to require ambulance support when they received call from PIA. The
call reported to have a plane crashed at Runway 04 with 68 passengers and
crews on board. PIA is within the EMAS Penang's coverage area, ambulance
St.John 2 was dispatched from the EMAS Base at Bayan Baru and arrived
the scene in 3 minutes.
Being the first ambulance to arrive, medical site-control was
immediately set up to coordinate the following ambulances and report site
situation back to the Penang Hospital. Upon received call from PIA on
11.26p.m., Ambulance St. John 1, St. John 3 and St. John 4
were dispatched from St. John Ambulance Penang Headquarters at Jalan Grove,
Air Itam to the location for assistant.
(left) St. John 2, first ambulance to arrive, become site-control;
(right) Firemen transferring casualties out from the site to casualty
collecting point
Firemen transferring the casualties out from the crashed site to the
casualty collecting point to be triaged. Casualties are triaged
and tagged with red as the most serious injury; yellow, moderate injury;
green, minor injury and black for fatality case. Casualties tagged with red,
yellow and green are transferred back to Air Disaster unit (ADU) for medical
attention.
(left) Air Disaster Unit (ADU) Casualty Bay; (right) Coded red
casualty refer to ADU
The
large scale mock exercise was carried out once in two years to test the
efficiency and collaboration of the rescue agencies. This year was the first
ever mock exercise carried out during late night and involved 600 rescuers
from various agencies which includes Malaysia Airport, Fire and Rescue
Department, State Health Department, Penang Hospital, St. John Ambulance
Malaysia, EMAS Penang, Malaysian Red Crescent and 68 "casualties". 20 SJAM
Penang volunteers involved in the exercise.
Team from SJAM Penang, group photo after the mock exercise
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