Tuesday night for us is Drill NIght. This can be two hours of lectures, some drills out in the yard or a trip out for a pre-planned exercise.
Last night we had the latter. A BA drill at the Christian Salvesen coldstore in Lowestoft.
Here’s how the scenario went:
A forklift truck had overturned in the coldstore, trapping a member of staff under a laden pallet and with a fire ensuing.
BA teams from Clifton had entered the coldstore and laid guideilnes to the incident and had ‘dealt’ with the fire. Myself and Nubs (Paul Newberry) followed the guideline carrying a first-aid kit. Once at the casualty we fitted a neck collar, covered the dummy with a space blanket (probably not much good at minus 30C!) and then huddled up to the dummy to give them some of our body heat.
The next team in (Mark ‘Frank’ Saunders and Greg) dragged in the scoop stretcher which was carrying the airbags, cylinder etc. We then made our way out stopping briefly to rescue another dummy that was spotted down a short alleyway.
After leaving the dummy outside we were sent straight back in with the box of chocks and blocks, needed for packing under the pallet as it got lifted.
And that was our part done.
The evening went really well. Ended with a debrief and a donation of a few boxes of crisps for the hungry masses!
Next week: District exercise at Bernard Matthews in Halesworth. If I catch one turkey snuffling or coughing – I’m out of there!
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