[Scan-DC] I-66 Bus Wreck

[Kenneth Fowler]

the net should be a talkgroup on the Fairfax County TRS.

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:55 PM, John Antonelli
<Johnantonelli at verizon.net> wrote:
> What is the frequency for Mednet?
>
> Steve Thompson wrote:
>> Just a few comments on that big bus wreck on I-66 late last week.....
>>
>> I was actually able to monitor virtually all of this incident, at one
>> point using two scanners (one on VSP and the other on Fairfax Fire).
>>
>> It left me convinced that if you really, really need to get into a
>> multiple bus wreck, Fairfax County is a great place to do it.  Talk
>> about organized!:
>>
>> The first I heard about it was when MedNet was alerting the
>> hospitals, which almost instantly reported their ER
>> availabilities.  Only THEN did I hear a fleet of EMS units being
>> dispatched by Fire Rescue.  That's right--the hospitals were
>> organizing before the big EMS call-out.
>>
>> VSP was on the scene very quickly and blocked all of the appropriate
>> ramps.  They had so many units on the scene and at the ramps that
>> there wasn't much to do for the Fairfax motor units who got there later.
>>
>> The rest of it worked more smoothly than most of the drills I've
>> monitored.  The patients were tagged to indicate their level of
>> injury.  A friend who is an ER nurse told me that they were also
>> tagged to show which hospital they were going to.  The hospitals were
>> told by radio what to expect, using the color codes on the tags.  An
>> ambulance bus was brought in, although I'm not sure that it was
>> used.  Multiple radio channels were used for specific functions and
>> the on-scene commander made a decision to divert some of the injured
>> to Fairfax Hospital rather than Fair Oaks, even though Fair Oaks was
>> reporting additional capacity.  He just wanted to spread the load.
>>
>> Spare EMS units were dispatched directly to the hospitals to assist
>> with triage.  Later, in Vienna, I spotted a "Mass Casualty Support
>> Unit" (a heavy-duty box truck) returning from the scene.  These guys
>> were ready for anything.
>>
>> I heard no screw-ups and no snags.  It all went by the book.  It's a
>> testimony to the professionalism of Fairfax Fire and Rescue, no doubt
>> aided by the fact that none of the injuries were serious.
>>
>> Steve, N4TX
>>
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