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Table of Content
• Getting Ready for Bird Flu
• Hurricane Wilma Deployment
• Hurricane Rita Deployment
• Hurricane Katrina Deployment
• Hurricane Dennis Deployment
• FL-3 Team Members Participated in the NDMS Conference
• MacDill Air Show
• Operation Southern Wings 2005
• February 2005 - Logistic Work Party
• FL-3 DMAT Represented at Inauguration
• FL-3
Doing Community Service with the Youth Groups National BMX Races
• Hurricane Ivan Deployment
• Hurricane Charley Deployment
• FL-3 Returns to Port Charlotte!
• FL-3 Gets an Award from Court TV
• Our Federal and State Vehicles!
Getting Ready for Bird Flu
Hurricane Wilma
Hurricane Rita Deployment
Hurricane Katrina Deployment
Hurricane Dennis Deployment
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Ron Wegner on Ft. Walton Beach Florida as Hurricane
Dennis passes. |
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Dan Johnson, Operations Officer and Acting Deputy Commander, in the FEMA EOC developing the plan
to assess the needs of hospitals in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Area. |
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A look at Ft. Walton beach one hour post storm.
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Federal helicopter aid Ron Wegner and Dan Johnson
in making tactical needs assesements throughout areas of Florida and
Alabama hit by Hurricane Dennis.
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Members of the logistics strike team who braved
the storm to deliver our cache to Ft. Rucker Alabama. (From left to right:
Lyle Fuller,
John Crowley, Kevin Walker, Adam Karsin, Bob Sable and Juan Ortega)
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FL-3 Team Members Participated in the NDMS Conference
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FL-3 Team members attend the opening ceremony of the NDMS Conference |
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Diane proudly displays the Outstanding Achievement Award following the presentation
by Jack Beall, Chief of the NDMS Section and other Homeland Security dignitaries. |
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Diane shares her award with husband Carmine |
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MacDill Air Show
Operation Southern Wings 2005
| FL 3 Team members erect a "tent city" at the St Petersburg Airport as
part of the three day training exercise dubbed "Operation Southern
Wings". The tents serve a number of functions as patient treatment
areas, equipment storage, dormitories, and a pharmacy. |
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| HAZMAT/ DECON teams set up to decontaminate human "victims" and urban
search and rescue dogs before treatment by the FL 3-DMAT members. |
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| Once patients are decontaminated and safe to work on, they art carried
to one of the DMAT treatment tents for care. The tents are set up to
allow for patient acuity and flow. All needed equipment and materials
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Mass Casualty incidents involving contaminated "victims" may
require mass decontamination methods such as those pictured here. Those
contaminated would strip down, bag their clothing, and enter a deluge
of water. They would be instructed to raise their arms and turn as they
passed through the water provided by Two fire trucks parked to form a
"V". As they emerged from the stream they would be given white "bunny
suits" to wear. Large numbers could be decontaminated in this manner.
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| Exercises like Southern Wings provide a unique laboratory for
corporations that are developing advanced disaster related equipment
and materials.
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| Historically, DMAT personnel have been used to evacuate patients from
areas of devastation to places where definitive care can be obtained.
On the ground and in the air, team members learn fixed wing and rotor
aircraft etiquette that must be followed in the handling of patients. |
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| Agencies like the Salvation Army
and the Red Cross don’t seek the
spotlight, but work tirelessly in the background to support disaster
readiness. Recent disaster history has taught us that when catastrophe
strikes, you won’t find these support agencies far behind. |
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February 2005 - Logistic Work Party
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All Equipment and supplies are staged outside
the warehouse in order to inspect and repack them |
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Replenishment supplies just arrived from NDMS |
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Volunteers hard at work sorting through the maize of medical supplies |
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Each container had to be restocked as required
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Each one of the Western Shelter containers
had to be inventoried and inspected and finally repacked |
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Practicing material transfer
(pallets
of water) procedures with simulated non-functioning lift gate
"Somewhere in the training manual it says if you spray cold water on them
they are easier to separate…"
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FL-3 DMAT Represented at Inauguration
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Deputy Commander Norm Wrona, seen here in Washington's 19 degree weather, during the 2005 Presidential Inauguration
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FL-3 Doing Community Service
with
the Youth Groups National BMX Races
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Pediatric patient brought off of track after sustaining abdomen injuries.
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A second patient on spineboard is taken to infield for evaluation
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Patient with suspect spinal injury was lifted to "Mule" for transport
and further evaluation
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Hurricane Ivan Deployment
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Dr. Lou Gutfiesh, Team Pharmacist, in the pharmacy
tent ready to support the team treatment area |
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Ron Wegner greets Dir. Tom Ridge of Homeland
Security Department as he tours FL-3 Base of Operations (B.o.O.) |
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Ron Wegner tours Tom Ridge, Dir. of Homeland
Security and Under Secretary Brown of Homeland Security through
FL-3 B.o.O. |
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From Left to Right:
Scott Kirley, Jared DeWitt, Gov. Jeb Bush and Kevin Walker |
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A group picture of our last day on deployment.
In the picture are members of FL- 3,
OR-2 (Oregon), hospital E.R. personnel
and National Guard.
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Hurricane Charley Deployment
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson greets
Tom Edwards, DO, FL-3 Medical Officer, inside Bon Secours
- St. Josephs Hospital emergency room area
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Secretary Thompson greets Ron Wegner inside the emergency
care area.
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Ron Wegner briefs Secretary Thompson on the ongoing team
deployment and medical assistance.
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B.o.O. set up on the first day of deployment
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