Learning to respond to emergencies
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Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue training division chief Rob Torrey demonstrates dressing and bandaging a wound on Mid-Columbia Community Emergency Response Team coordinator Lynette Black during a CERT training on Jan. 17. CERT volunteers were trained on how to triage and treat patients in a disaster situation.
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Andrew Johnson and Dean Ferrell stand for a photo after Ferrell stabilized the pen “impaled” in Johnson’s arm during a training session. Ferrell and Johnson are coworkers at Cousins’ who were surprised to see each other when they showed up to the volunteer training.
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Braiden Page practices a head-to-toe patient assessment on Jacob Powell at a Community Emergency Response Team training on Jan. 17 at Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue. Page volunteers with Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue where his father, Rob Torrey, is a division chief.
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Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue training division chief Rob Torrey demonstrates dressing and bandaging a wound on Mid-Columbia Community Emergency Response Team coordinator Lynette Black during a CERT training on Jan. 17. CERT volunteers were trained on how to triage and treat patients in a disaster situation.
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Rob Torrey, training division chief of Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue (center), gives some tips to volunteers Jacob Powell (left) and Braiden Page (right). CERT trainings prepare volunteers to be proactive and organized in a disaster.
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Andrew Johnson and Dean Ferrell stand for a photo after Ferrell stabilized the pen “impaled” in Johnson’s arm during a training session. Ferrell and Johnson are coworkers at Cousins’ who were surprised to see each other when they showed up to the volunteer training.
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Volunteers are being trained to prepare for, and respond to, disaster. above, Sharon Thornberry practices a patient assessment on Dawn Rasmussen at a Community Emergency Response Team training Jan. 17 at Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue.
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Braiden Page practices a head-to-toe patient assessment on Jacob Powell at a Community Emergency Response Team training on Jan. 17 at Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue. Page volunteers with Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue where his father, Rob Torrey, is a division chief.
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Volunteers with a local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) were trained in January for everything from first-aid and “disaster psychology” to proper storage of household chemicals ahead of a disaster.
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