Jessica Elliot, Public Liaison for the hospital, (center right) instructs the medic students on what there role will be during the drill. The student added realism to the drill by stepping in and acting as the people caught in the accident.
Fire Chief Jacob Denum arrives on the scene with the Bethany Fire Department. After hearing the scenario the firemen set up the ladder truck to “wash off the dirty victims.”
Behind all the chaos, Tina Gillespie (left) Nikki Hendren (center) and Bev Shaul (right) work to keep all the moving parts of the drill running smoothly. The women, who are the CEO, COO, and CNO ran the the Emergency Operation Center during the drill.
Inside the yellow tent HCCH staff cleans the “victims” of the fictional accident during a drill on October 14th. The drill was held to see if Harrison County could handle a wide spread emergency event.
Harrison County, MO: On October 14th, a fictional emergency call was placed to a real world 911 system in Harrison County. The outgoing call described an incident involving a truck carrying anhydrous colliding with a semi on Highway 136 and dragging both vehicles into the Premier Ag building, rupturing the tanks in the accident.
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