NEWS & EVENTS
Tweeting from the trenches
On Friday, August 14, FPB conducted its first live Twitter coverage of an event. An officer of the school's marketing department, via cell phone, posted to Twitter and Facebook minute-by-minute commentary of the disaster drill at the National Flight Nurse Academy summer camp.
Each year, the exact nature of the drill is kept secret from students at the camp until it happens to better simulate responding to a sudden, unplanned natural or manmade event. FPB students and staff, as well as other members of the Case community, volunteered as victims during the action-packed drill.
The transcript of the Twitter feed is below. View photos from the camp here.
| The Case farm is a center of activity today. Students are wrapping up their lessons, while planners are setting up today's disaster drill...10:35 AM Aug 14th |
| The Case farm is expansive, students in one area, the drill in another. The disaster will start at approx 130pm.12:29 PM Aug 14th |
| Just got the inside scoop on the impending disaster...WOW! Let's just say that things are going to get explosive! Stay tuned.12:56 PM Aug 14th |
| Volunteer victims sorted by level of injury and placed throughout the farm. First up, the severe burns crew. Their makeup is lifelike.1:03 PM Aug 14th |
| The volunteer whose legs are being placed under a hot water tank and is being doused in fake blood is a good sport.1:19 PM Aug 14th |
| Wait, is it me or is the ground shaking? Feels like an earthquake...1:26 PM Aug 14th |
| Debris falling, foundations cracking...1:34 PM Aug 14th |
| KA-BOOM!!! Quake triggered a gas main break. Power and phone lines down. Acute critical care providers needed ASAP1:37 PM Aug 14th |
| Sound of sirens coming around the bend. Victims screaming. Ambulances having trouble getting past rocky terrain and ground breaks.1:40 PM Aug 14th |
| The explosion has thrown victims across the farm. Patches of fire and other obstacles blocking response team. Call life flight.1:45 PM Aug 14th |
| Two helicopters on the horizon, circling for landing.1:45 PM Aug 14th |
| Here come the flight nurses!1:48 PM Aug 14th |
| Triage of first set of victims in progress. One victim screaming for her son, another cannot walk.1:51 PM Aug 14th |
| Four victims with burns and multiple broken bones just found near ravine.1:56 PM Aug 14th |
| Flight nurses organizing area into spots for stable patients and the area for those in need of a procedure.1:58 PM Aug 14th |
| Nurses removing twig lodged in side of victim. Many more victims need this, too. Mother still cannot find her son.2:00 PM Aug 14th |
| Nurses on top of situation, bringing a sense of order to the chaos and providing acute critical care.2:01 PM Aug 14th |
| Young man found under overturned picnic table. Nurses respond to his blunt head injury.2:03 PM Aug 14th |
| Seven more victims found in woods. "Triage ASAP!"2:06 PM Aug 14th |
| Stable patient complains of problems breathing. Nurse attends, but two other victims with severe bleeding are brought into the fold.2:10 PM Aug 14th |
| One nurse performs ultrasound, another runs a line.2:11 PM Aug 14th |
| One of the deep woods victim comes to, asks nurse where his mother is.2:14 PM Aug 14th |
| Loading three patients into copter. A series of patients being intubated acrosss the way.2:16 PM Aug 14th |
| No language barriers between camp students from other countries. Everyone here speaks nurse!2:18 PM Aug 14th |
| The real-time, real lifelike scenario continues with actual triage stations and equipment. The drill is amazingly real.2:30 PM Aug 14th |
| Patients being flown to Cleveland Clinic, while another triage unit is set up on the site.2:32 PM Aug 14th |
| More patients loaded onto the copters. Nurses have the triage units under control.2:43 PM Aug 14th |
| One last patient found in ravine creek, brought to surface via pulley system. Ultrasound performed in woods to determine health of organs.2:57 PM Aug 14th |
| About 60 victims rescued today. Drill coming to a close.2:58 PM Aug 14th |
| Camp students heading back to base for review, volunteer victims cleaning off fake blood, visitors from Japan chatting with FPB faculty.3:17 PM Aug 14th |