Seymour To Hold Mass Casualty Drill At High School

FILEOn Sunday, Aug. 18, the emergency services for the Town of Seymour will be conducting a mass casualty drill.

This will be the first large scale, multi-jurisdictional drill in town in over 30 years which will include Police, Fire, EMS, Griffin Hospital and Emergency Management.

The incident will be held at Seymour High School and is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with pre-event preparations beginning at 7 a.m.

This drill is being conducted to test the skills of responders in handling mass casualty incidents.

In order to obtain a fair and unbiased evaluation of the responders, there will be third party evaluators assessing the responders’ abilities to properly deal with incidents of this magnitude.

Each discipline (police, fire and EMS) will have evaluators that will follow a standardized and objective format in their assessment.

The different areas that will be assessed will be incident command, firefighting efforts and properly triaging, treating and transporting patients as well as the police response and actions.

Mutual aid responders from Beacon Falls, Oxford and Ansonia will also participate in the event.

At the conclusion of the event, there will be a debriefing of the participants to provide information from their perspective, as to how the players performed in their duties.

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