Emergency services training day at Albion Park

Illawarra Mercury

First responders converged on Albion Park over the weekend for a training exercise in responding to a bus crash. Footage by Robert Peet and Nadine Morton.

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00:00Probably the biggest challenge is kind of showing up some of those first initial responders

00:04on scene and seeing the real gravity of the situation, how many people are impacted, assessing

00:09the scene and determining how many extra resources are going to be needed for this type of response.

00:15We have tried to throw in a little element of maybe some additional things that police

00:20and other services wouldn't necessarily see at a typical crash site.

00:26One of those was throwing in some injects about the passengers, walking around the site,

00:33maybe walking off after they've been triaged to just make sure that we've been able to

00:36really keep an eye, make sure the agencies on the site are able to keep an eye on where

00:40those passengers are located at all times.

00:43It's not necessarily something that they would see, but we thought we would include it just

00:46to test them.

00:47We have tried to throw in a little, thankfully able to actually bring the Red Cross kind of

00:54coordinator up there for the Greta bus crash down here and she's actually presenting this

00:59afternoon.

01:00So some of the learnings from that, she's really going to focus on emergency services,

01:04mental health and some of the processes and ways that a lot of those letters, mementos,

01:09could be teddy bears, flowers, any of that type of stuff can be, I suppose, captured so that

01:15they're not going to waste and families have a real significant, I suppose, way of dealing

01:22with their grief.

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