Yesterday was my first exercise for our NDP stand-by. It was held overnight and despite me having a simple role of triaging the casualties, I was a complete zombie by the end of the exercise. (Ok, that was an exaggeration, but staying awake for long hours has always been difficult for me unless coffee is involved)
So first, we double-checked the generators and ensured they're running on full tanks. Apparently, there were past incidents when the generators would fail at scene. Some displeasure erupted from the overseeing officers and was at the expense of our ma'am's competence to oversee our part of the operation. Hence, our vigorous checking of generators before we leave @_@
After checking that everything's ok, we moved off in our SWIFT to standby at Bishan Fire station for activation.
We decided to fool around inside on the way there. Here's Walter,
We parked near Kallang leisure park and waited for our respective activation. Apparently it was hinted that they may be 100 casualties due to a dirty bomb. 😨
At 1 am in the morning the codeword was released, signaling that a CA was identified. The exercise begins.
I was placed to assist in triaging the incoming casualties. Tagged either P1, P2 or P3, they would be then be relocated for their respective treatments.
P1s would be sent to our SWIFT for critical intervention treatments.
To our surprise (and perhaps relief) only about 16 casualties were released. Perhaps the higher ups realized that 100 casualties was crazy.
After debrief and clean up, we took some photos together.
We reached back at 4.00am in the morning and were given the morning off to catch some rest. 😪