Manitowoc County Mass Casualty
Disaster Plan
Disaster Supplies
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Cleveland First Responders - Cleveland
Kiel Ambulance Service - Kiel
Mishicot Ambulance Service - Mishicot
Valders Ambulance Service - Valders
County Mass Cass Trailer – Manitowoc Fire
Manitowoc Fire Department - Manitowoc
Two Rivers Fire Department - Two Rivers
First In Medical Team
• EMS Chief Officer and Triage
EMS Chief Officer
• Notify JDC of Mass Casualty Event and have them page all County
EMS units to a designated staging area.
• Request:
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Black Boxes
Helicopters
Mass Casualty trailer
Any other additional resources
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Co. Fire Depts.
Utilities
Red Cross/Sav. Army
TRFD Blow up shelter
Hazmat
Buses
Lighting
• Notifies area Hospitals of Disaster
EMS Chief Check List
• _____ Appoint triage officer and assistant if
needed
• _____ Appoint a staging officer
• _____ Appoint an equipment area manager
• _____ Appoint a treatment area manager(s)
• _____Appoint a transportation officer
• _____ Appoint a communications officer
• _____ Appoint a liaison to the coroner if needed
• _____Appoint Safety Officer
Triage Officer
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30 second eval of each patient.
Walking wounded - Green
R >30 Red
P No Rad Pulse or > 2 sec Cap refill-Red
M Can not follow simple command - Y
Tag Vs Band
Second Sweep or Assistant place name
Give count to EMS chief
Triage
Charts
Triage Tags and Bands
Staging officer
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Greet incoming units
Provide accountability-Check in
Assign units based on EMS chiefs needs
Responsible for keeping a log EMS
personnel on scene.
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Unit affiliation
Task
Treatment Officer
• Coordinates evacuation of patients with
Transportation Officer to area hospitals or
other intermediate facilities or locations.
• Nice to have Paramedic, but not
necessary- Assigns staff to treat patients
• Sets up Red, Yellow and Green Tarps
Transportation Officer
• With approval and concurrence of EMS Chief Officer and EMS
Triage Officer establishes:
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Patient loading area
Ambulance staging area
Equipment staging area
• Establishes communications contact with Staging Officer and
advises number of ambulances and special service equipment
needed to perform patient transport.
• Coordinates ambulance routing and response to ambulance staging
area. May require setting up special routes for ambulances to enter
and leave staging areas.
• Establishes communications contact with Emergency Operations
Center (if activated), Medical Control and area hospitals via
Communications Officer to determines area hospital's capabilities
to receive patients.
• Logs Patients as they are loaded into ambulances
Equipment Area Manager
• Establishes equipment area which should be strategically located
between treatment and ambulance staging areas.
• Communicates with EMS Triage Officer and provides the needed
equipment at the incident and treatment areas.
• Collects and inventories equipment and supplies from ambulances
arriving at the scene Collects and inventories supplies as brought in
from various sources. Label equipment if time permits to allow for
proper return.
• Distributes supplies as requested in triage and treatment areas.
• Collects and inventories equipment at the end of the incident and
returns the same to its proper source
• Sets up Mass Cass Trailer
Communications Officer
• Works with Transportation Officer, communicating via
radio, to hospitals, with information on patients and
estimated times on arrival.
• Establishes communications contact with Emergency
Operations Center and Fire/Hazmat (if activated) (call
JDC at 683-4201 for phone numbers) Medical Control,
and area hospitals and determines area hospitals'
capabilities to receive patients. This information shall be
shared with the Transportation Officer.
• The Communications Officer shall be the only
person contacting the hospitals with patient
information and estimated times of arrivals.
• Gives report as patients leave transport area
Coroner Liaison
• Assist Coroner
Safety Officer
-Make the scene safe
• Keep the scene safe
• May have been assigned already by IC
Disaster Boxes
Other Considerations
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Command Post
Staging
Buses
Shelters
Decon
Unified command
Do not rush take your time and do it RIGHT
Assistants
FR vehicles to transport
Co FF to help move or Decon
Traffic Control- MTSO, Co FF
Safety of all responders
Portable lighting
Critical patient go by Helo
What to do for DOA
MABAS
• Life Safety Card
• Accountability
• Mutual Aid Frequency
Questions