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Show 2A Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, September 19, 1984 Hospitals Handle The Wounded in Mock Disaster CHERYL ARCHIBALD t Review Staff BOUNTIFUL A thirsty man outside the Air National Guard theater sauntered up to a Red Cross worker and asked for a drink of .lemonade. The Red Cross emergency aide standing lunches willncai; 260 brown-ba- g ingly assisted him. Yeah, but Ive got a problem," he said pointing to his wrapped hands with his chin. Whos going to feed this man?" questioned the amused volunteer. Thats what the Red Cross is for," replied another bandaged man in the rear. So went the bantering as military and civilian mock disaster victims from Hill Air Force Base milled around in their bandages smoking cigarettes, eating Red Cross sandwiches, waiting to be transported to hospital emergency rooms where they would be medically treated. inside the theater SO or so men in faded hospital pajamas lined the aisle waiting to receive their assigned injuries. The mock emergency was a dual scenario said Air Force Capt. William .Waters, exercise coordinator. Some would be victims of a west coast earthquake. They would have bums or maybe fractures. Other victims would have gun shot wounds, fragments, battle fatigue or jaundice received id an overseas conflict. ;Nichols instructed men how to act for the particular ailment labelled on a large tag hanging around their necks. IHe told the sufferer of hysteria You may just huddle in a corner. You may not be able to speak. Fear has finally taken its toll. , JHe told another whose tag read Punch, Richard. Shrapnel Fragments Lumbar Region to just lay on his stomach. You wont be able to lift yourself up. lCan I put my regular pants back on? asked another mock patient. What the hell can they do with a drug addict? ' Some men left the theatre carryplastic ing yellowish liquid-fille- d bags attached to long tubes. Some left peeking through gauze holes. Transportation of patients from was the west coast and over-sea- s simulated. After being made up, into men would be triaged-sort- ed of one three , diagnostic assigned to one of nine hospitals in Weber, Davis, and Salt Lake counties. In advance, hospitals had informed the Air Force how many beds available and what type of ailments they could treat. Lake-vieHospital had 71 available beds, but not all would be needed, since there were 120 volunteer victims. Only two hospitals could treat burns. Four could handle spinal injuries. Only a few had facilities for thoracic injuries. By computer, names of men and their diagnosis and statistics would be given to the Emergency Operations Center in Salt Lake City Waters explained. From there the information would go to .hospital emergency rooms. Hospitals would answer who they could take. At Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful preparations were made according to a plan as outlined in an emergency handbook, said Jill Bacon at the Lakeview Emergency Room. We called our personnel to find out who could come in if they were needed, but we didnt have them come in, she said. In a real disaster they would have come in. At 2:30 p.m. seven patients arrived at Lakeview by UTA. One of the problems which Ms. Bacon said would be remedied was that bus drivers did not know where emergency entrances were. AT categories-a- nd w Lakeview patients . MOCK disaster of earthquake and bullets tested response time and capability of local A hospitals on the Wasatch Front. Civilians and Air National Guard members faked wounds land illnesses to be treated at aid centers. entered through the main hospital door. We feel our plan went smoothly. It went extremely well, Ms. Bacon said. Two were treated for fractures and went to surgery, a couple were medicals, two were treated and released, and one was a burn victim who should have gone to the University of Utah, Since his burns were mild, Lake- view treated him there. fit v Communications between the and communications equipment Air National Guard facility and are probably the first things to go. the Emergency Operations Center; It would be punt and kick, she were down, but Ms. Bacon said said. Its hot uncommon. in a real emergency telephones Ms Bacon explained that Lake- . By County Commission HILL AIR FORCE BASE at Hill Air Force Base to build a plant are proceeding, in g c&se a proposed riant to be owned by a Davis Gounty special service district is coal-burni- steam-pro-djuci- trash-burnin- defeated. If the ' energy pjant were built, the steam would be sold to the base, making the burn plant an economically feasible project, said County Commissioner Harry Gerlach. j A special service district would address garbage disposal alternatives, the burn plant among the options. Twelve cities in the county voted to join the district, while Layton, Clearfield and Bountiful rejected the proposal. 1 County commissioners will decide Sept. 24 whether or not to form the district, since the three most populous cities wont be inJ garbage-to-stea- m cluded. The burn plant is a deal because we can sell the steam and generate revenue this way. Without this ability, future generations would be paying a hauling charge beyond belief, he said. A New York burn plant has a tipping fee of $44 a ton for garbage. But the service district s tipping fee would be between $12 tq $14 a ton, only because of the ssam sold to the base. fBut he said that the facility would not be built in communities where it wasnt wanted, even though the power to condemn a sijte is available. j Unless Clearfield or Layton want it there, it wont go there. We will place it where it wont be v LAYTON County have until 5 p.m. Thursday to turn ,111 petitions or protests on a proposed special service district to handle garbage disposal in the county. The protests should be submitted to the county commission in Farmington. They must be valid reasons why the district should not be formed. The county commission will vote Monday on whether or . not to form the district If created, the district will study solid waste disposal al tematives. A board made up of representative of member cities will also initiate a system to handle the countys growing garbage problem. Officials estimate that the two county landfills do not have, a long life v , .expectancy, The most viable garbage disposal method available is a resource recover plant, or burn plant as it is commonly termed, Wasatch Front Regional, 20-ye- ar m Council officials have said, resi-den- ts The WFRC is a regional government made up of local counties along the Wasatch Front, Davis County "among them, (See related stories, Page 2A.) The county attorney will re- view the letters and petitions ; submitted to see whether the j wording is valid. The protests should discuss why the special service district should not he formed, regarding the service it will provide, which will be to get destroy county garbage and to consolidate the two county ' landfills., residents whose pities , Only voted to include themselves in the proposed special service district protests will be eonsid- ered. They include residents in Kaysvilie, Farmington, Sunset, Clinton; West Point, South . : .Weber, Syracuse, Fruit Heights, . Centerville, West Bountiful, Woods Cross, and North Salt Lake. ' ' built where the Utah Department of Transportation is located in city limits. a problem. But the site is a problem, Gerlach said. The plant was proposed to be built along these cities borders, near the base, but local residents strongly opposed the idea. Clearfield also withdrew a conditional use permit a year ago that would have allowed the facility to be Gerlach added that the burn plant site hasnt been addressed yet. The bases plant would produce steam energy to be utilized on base. If built, steam coal-burni- the annual mock drill performed well internally. The community can feel safe about hospitals working well." , from the burn plant would be consold to the base'on a tract. The contract would be signed annually, since the governconment cant sign long-tertracts of this nature, Gerlach said. Burn Flarrt Petition Deadline Thursday view and the other hospitals in New Policy Announced For Substitute Teachers Service District Vote Set for Monday FHans 1 The base is the only steam customer in the state that can make the bum plant viable. THe DaFARMINGTON vis ounty School Board has announced its new policy " concerning substitute teaching positions. According to Bonnie Durrance, public information director for the' school district, qualified substitute teachers will no longer be hired from Job Service offices. Instead, Durrance said those who wish to substitute teach must contact the individual principals of the schools where the would like to teach. , The principals will then hire substitutes as needed. If they build their own g plant, they wont buy our steam. And theyre in the planning stages of theirs, said Robert Palmquist, mayor of steam-producin- North Salt Lake. Palmquist is also the chairman of the Solid Waste Management Board, set up four years ago to investigate solid waste handling and disposal alternatives, including how to extend the lives of the two county landfills. The board concluded that a burn plant was the only proven available technology to handle the countys growing garbage problem. The two county landfills do not have many years of life left, but the bum plant will help extend their life. Ash from the plant would be taken to the landfills and disposed of there. garbage Gerlach emphasized that the bum plant may not even be built, due to all the controversy surrounding the proposed facility. Clearfield and Layton residents have strongly opposed to plant, when it was proposed to be built near their cities. 'L County officials still maintain that to be economically feasible, the plant be built within about a mile radius of the base. DO YOU HAVE A NEWS TIP CALL YOUR Lakeside QUevie w AREA CORRESPONDENT BOUNTIFULNORTH SALT LAKE r. 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