Banner UMC Hosting Tourniquet-Training As Part Of “Stop The Bleed” Initiative

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We are very happy to see Banner UMC involved with the “Stop the Bleed” campaign and proud to say we are working hand-in-hand with them to bring this vital training to the community.

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Banner University Medical Center is now offering up two-hour classes on how to properly apply tourniquet. It’s all a part of the nationwide Stop the Bleed campaign.

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Tucson Police officer Doug Wilfert can attest to the life-saving tool of a tourniquet. On December 1, 2016, Wilfert was shot in the leg while serving a felony warrant at a south side apartment complex. "They saw how much blood there was, they applied a tourniquet and potentially saved my life,” Wilfert said. Medical professionals said a person can die from blood loss within five minutes. "You don't have to be in the medical field to be able to take care of your friends and family,” Daniels said. Trauma surgeon Dr. Andrew Tang urges the community to take advantage of the classes in a time where mass shootings and terrorist attacks have become commonplace around the world. To learn more about Stop the Bleed click here. To sign up for Banner UMC’s tourniquet classes, email Susan.Kinkade@bannerhealth.com read more at kvoa.com

2017 Arizona State Fire School Asymmetric Threats Course

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Response and Realities of Active Violence Events

The violence of terrorism, both home grown and foreign, enacted by both the calculating and insane continues to impact our national life. For the past two decades, these horrific events have occurred in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Today, every fire service organization, no matter its size, population, or location has the potential to find itself responding to mass murder. And, despite these continually evolving and asymmetric threats, many public safety organizations throughout the country have yet to develop response guidelines. Those that have find themselves struggling to bridge the gap between military and civilian, police and fire, and even volunteer and career. These organizations often struggle to find training solutions that will be effective for their populations, manpower, and equipment.

 This highly interactive, 4-day course will investigate Active Violence threats and discuss the solutions, challenges, and failures of the past two decades. Featuring speakers from several disciplines, this course will be extremely comprehensive. And you will hear from some of the very best teachers on the subject, men and women with direct experience either as first arriving personnel or victims of these horrible events. In addition, our qualified and experienced instructors will offer substantive, integrated point-of-wound care training in simulated on-going ballistic and/or explosive threat environments.  We designed this course to specifically target representatives of public safety organizations who want to be ready for an Active Violence Event in their own first due. Be an agent of change and join us!

For more information or to register go to www.azfireschool.org

'We Have to Live With it': Victims Testify to the Devastation of Sockeye Fire

Victims of the fire have been testifying throughout the trial of two accused of setting fire.

(TNS) - Victims of the Sockeye fire, in Alaska, took the stand this week to describe the devastation caused by the 2015 blaze as the state rested its case against the couple charged with starting the forest fire.

After almost two weeks of testimony in Palmer the state finished presenting evidence Wednesday alleging that Amy DeWitt, 43, and Greg Imig, 61, started the June 2015 blaze that burned over 7,000 acres and destroyed 55 homes.

DeWitt and Imig are each charged with a dozen counts related to starting the blaze, including second-degree negligent burning and three counts of reckless endangerment.

The reckless endangerment counts reflect the "substantial risk of serious physical injury" to Willow and Houston residents, fire and emergency personnel and residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged, according to charging documents in the case.

Victims of the fire have been testifying throughout the trial, with most taking the stand Tuesday and Wednesday.

Bob Chlupach was inside on the afternoon of June 14 when he got a call that a fire was spotted north of his home, he testified Tuesday.

He decided to drive out and see how the fire was growing. As he made his way back home, he stopped at a hill overlooking Little Willow Creek to get a better vantage point.

There he watched smoke billowing up on both sides of the road. The fire had jumped the highway.

He called his wife, musher Jan Steves, to tell her what was happening. Steves was out of state at the time, dealing with the sudden death of her son just days earlier.

Chlupach said when he told Steves the fire was approaching their home she started screaming.

"She literally had a meltdown, an absolute meltdown," he told the jury. "She was screaming enough that the neighbors adjacent to her son's apartment, they heard her."

Chlupach was able to get all of their 46 dogs out of the fire. He said one died in the dog truck as a result of heatstroke on the 80-degree day.

Marguerite Goodman had been working in her yard the day the fire started when she smelled smoke. She looked up and saw a giant black cloud overhead.

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