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Show By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - Imagine this news account had actually happen in Davis County. FIFTY BOY Scouts were injured-some seriously-in the crash of a Boeing 727 at Antelope Ante-lope Island on its way to Salt Lake International Airport, Tuesday. The youths were to have attended a Scout Jamboree Jam-boree at Lagoon starting Thursday. Fortunately, that's as untrue un-true as Jack and the Beanstalk, but hopefully reactions of medical crews and others will be as real as the consumer price index when the county's annual "mock disaster" is staged June 2. ACTUALLY, Boy Scouts will be used as "guinea pigs" but will be gathered at two locations-the Bountiful City Park adjoining Bountiful Junior High School and Kays-ville Kays-ville City Park behind city hall at 9 a.m. Three school district buses will transport the "victims" to Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful, Bounti-ful, Humana Davis North in Layton and HAFB Hospital who are not in sufficiently serious se-rious condition to require ambulance transport, John Zippro, county emergency services director and disaster coordinator, says. THE EXERCISE will be coordinated by his office but, unlike previous "disasters" reports will not be carried con tinually to that office but action ac-tion will proceed from the field. The county commissioners commission-ers will oversee the action assisted by the Sheriffs office. "Last year it was too involved, in-volved, too cumbersome, no one learned too much," Mr. Zippro recalled, emphasizing this year fewer people will be involved making it easier to have a "positive experience." WHILE ALL county departments, depart-ments, such as Council on Aging, Ag-ing, will be placed on alert at the start of the mock disaster, some may be released later after af-ter it's determined they're not needed. "It's not within a specific scenario. We're now drawing it up so there will be no surprises sur-prises unless the Sheriff's Office will spring those on us, and we'll make sure each hospital hos-pital will receive patients." LAST YEAR, there were communication difficulties preventing much activity at either Davis North or HAFB with most of the participants carried to Lakeview. "We would like the buses to wait at the emergency rooms and take the Scouts back to their point of origin." he added. Mock disasters have been held on a yearly basis in the county for the last several years although there was a combined effort with Weber County several years ago in a mock train disaster in Koy. It was decided to confine efforts . to Davis County, giving hos- ' pilals and others more chance to participate. HOSPITALS conduct their own, separate mock disasters twice each year as a means to test response capabilities and staff preparedness. |