Bus Crash at the High School

This year, like in years past, we wanted to demonstrate to the students of Mogollon High School, what takes place in the event of an auto accident and what can happen to the victims.  We wanted to do something different this year so we decided on a Bus Crash.  Fortunately our area has never experienced a wreck of this size so we thought it would be a great drill for our Department as well.  We asked 11 of the students from the drama department of the High School to participate.  They were placed in makeup, placed on the Bus,  and told to act the way they would if this were real.  They all did a great job.  The bus driver was a member of our CERT Team.  The scenario was this, two students left school an hour early and were out joy riding in their car.  They were driving reckless and had a head on with a School Bus as they came around a corner.  The passenger of the vehicle dies as well as the bus driver.  In real life we would need a lot of help for something like this.  We had help from NCSO, DPS, Native Air, Owens Mortuary, Taylor EMS, Forest Lakes Fire Department, and our own CERT Team.

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   After Makeup                       The Crash               LuDene Whipple        Waiting for rescue     Unloading Patients         Treatment areas         Ambulances from 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Forest Lakes and Taylor    

The students from the School sat in the stands and watched as Sergeant Paul Albert from the Navajo County Sheriffs Office and Capt. Wade Allen of the Heber-Overgaard Fire Department narrated the event.  The students were told what would happen to someone that gets arrested for reckless driving and killing people in the process.  They got to see first hand the amount of resources it takes to handle a call like this and the effect it can have on the Emergency Workers. 

Native Nine from         Patients being packaged       Our two fatalities      Owens Mortuary taking     Native Air Landing           A busy scene

Show Low                        for transport                                                     victims in body bags

Driver being arrested         Ready for transport        Patients being triaged and 

                                                                                  treated on the bus 

 A special thanks to all the department personnel that helped with this.  We would also like to thank the CERT Team, DPS, NCSO, Owens Mortuary, Taylor EMS,  Forest Lakes, and Native Air.

We would also like to thank the students that helped.  Tyrel Rutherford, Lachelle Crandel, Josh Mechum, Kristie Pociask, Collette Chenney, Brain Barnum, Brindi Porter, Andrew Mleynek, Jamie Clark, Mandy Starks, Cara Heder,  Mrs. Squire of the Drama Department.  Sergeant Paul Albert.