Every year, Wilton CERT offers a complimentary Disaster Preparedness Training, inviting citizens to learn how to assist family, friends, and neighbors during emergencies or disasters. After completing the course, participants are invited to join Wilton CERT. This multi-day course includes 20 hours of training, covering topics such as Disaster Preparedness, CERT Organization, Fire Safety, Search and Rescue, Disaster Psychology, and Terrorism. The most extensive part of the course, spanning two days, is the Disaster Medical Operation unit.
Each year, Wilton CERT enlists the help of members of the Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps to teach this portion of the training. This year, WVAC Secretary and 10-year WVAC EMT, Brian McDermott, led this training along with support from several other WVAC members. Brian McDermott is also a member of Wilton CERT.
The training covered several topics, including but not limited to:
Identifying the Three Killers (Airway, Bleeding and Circulatory/Shock) and how to recognize and apply correct life-saving techniques for all three.
Providing first-aid care for injuries such as burns, dressing and bandaging wounds, managing amputations, impaled objects, splinting fractures, dislocations, sprains and strains, managing heat and cold related injuries such as hypothermia and hyperthermia, treatment for insect bites and stings, and managing anaphylaxis.
How to do a scene size-up
Managing MCI (Mass-Casualty Incidents), and how to set up survivor treatment areas and perform head-to-toe assessments to identify injuries.
Shout out to WVAC members, Aditya Gupta, Kevin Kelly, Betsy Wallon, Karen Seelert, Hans Wernke, Grace Todd, and Tom Klinga for also helping out with this training.
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