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Responding to Terrorist Incidents & Major Disasters
Preparedness & Response Training
Mass Casualty Disaster Simulation

October 13–21, 2007
Wichita, Kansas

Register today Participation is limited

Sponsored by

The University of Kansas Medical Center with funds from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations and the South Central Kansas Homeland Security Council with funds provided to the State of Kansas from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness

First responders from health and public safety are eager for training that allows them to coordinate their response efforts and build expertise both within their units and in collaboration with other jurisdictions and agencies.

This training event is designed to offer intense classroom and hands-on skill training which precedes the actual mass casualty disaster simulation. Profession-specific training is conducted at appropriate sites to replicate the realities of disaster response.

 

"With recent disasters in our state, all of which had a strong medical and public health response component, there is no time like now to train as a regional community to ensure a coordinated response. It simply comes down to the fact that if we don’t train together, we won’t respond together."
—Seth Konkel, South Central Kansas MMRS
Program Manager, Sedgwick County Health Department

 

Sorrentino

"This of type training, and the equipment that goes with it, no matter what the cost, is worth it to save one person’s life. Our goal is to get victims out with dignity and with life."
—Joe Sorrentino, Rescue Training Associates
Project Manager for Responding to Terrorist Incidents and Major Disasters, Battalion Captain/Paramedic, FEMA Planning Officer, Florida Task Force 2.

 

"This disaster training provides an important and timely opportunity to learn and practice skills and develop the Regional relationships key to a successful response to any type of event."
—Bob Lamkey, Director, Division of Public Safety,
Sedgwick County

 

Keeton

"The most beneficial training involves everyone who might be involved in an incident.… Building relationships among responders ahead of an emergency is going to be key to successful handling of a terrorism incident or any other emergency."
—Charlie Keeton, Chief Training Officer
City of Wichita Fire Department, Wichita, Kansas

 

 

The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City and its Medical School in Wichita have joined forces with the Kansas South Central Regional Homeland Security Council and Sedgwick County plus countless planners to conduct intense classroom and hands-on training in discipline specific tracks followed by a large-scale, real-time 48- hour simulated disaster.

Professionals from fire service, law enforcement, hospitals and healthcare, emergency medical services, public health and emergency management, along with representatives from federal and state agencies, have participated in planning this major event.

Training Sites

There will be multiple training sites in Wichita for both phases of this event. After registration, participants will receive a confirmation letter listing all dates, times, and training sites based on track(s) selected.

Training Specialists

Rescue Training Associates

Overall implementation of Phases I and II will be conducted by Rescue Training Associates (RTA) from Pompano Beach, Fla. RTA has a team of expert instructors who have had on–site involvement and leadership roles in some of the world’s major disasters, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, 10 hurricanes (including Hurricane Katrina), the ValuJet crash, an earthquake in Turkey, and others.

Moreover, instructional staff has presented multiple training programs and designed and facilitated mass casualty simulations throughout the country. The majority of RTA’s instructors serve on FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Teams or Disaster Medicine Assistance Teams.

Outcomes

Outcomes are based on National Incident Management System (NIMS) components for disaster training events. They reflect the full scope of training, but not all outcomes apply to each track.

The following outcomes will be attained:

Week-long disaster training, capped by a full-scale mass casualty simulation/structural collapse, will be held in Wichita from October 13–21, 2007.

The event was developed collaboratively by state and local Kansas agencies in conjunction with Rescue Training Associates. (Please see Planning Committee for details.)

This realistic training experience will offer agencies and jurisdictions in–depth knowledge and skills, the means to test those skills in real time, and the opportunity to build coordinated capacity for disaster and terror response.

Phase I will be conducted October 13–18 and consist of classroom and hands–on instruction for 11 discipline–specific tracks. Most training will be conducted in Wichita; one of two identical Public Health Tracks will be conducted in Pratt, with the other in Wichita.

Tracks include:

  1. Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
  2. Command
  3. Fire Rescue
  4. Law Enforcement (includes three subtracks)
  5. Disaster Medical Specialist
  6. Regional EMS Disaster Medicine Management and Procedures
  7. Hospital (includes five subtracks)
  8. Media & Public Information Officers (PIO)
  9. Public Health
  10. Disaster Management Course "101" for Elected Officials
  11. Hospital Mass Casualty Incident Drill (MCI)

Phase II will be conducted over a continuous 48–hour period, October 19–21, and involves a collaborative, multidisciplinary response to staged disaster/terrorist attacks at multiple locations in Wichita. The full-scale mass casualty simulation will take place in a partially collapsed structure and will require using skills learned or enhanced in Phase I.

Phase II also will trigger deployment of "victims" to an estimated 20 hospitals in Wichita and South Central Kansas to test surge capacity and emergency preparedness plans.