The Muhlenberg Weekly

Issue date: 11/1/07 Section: News

Last Friday during 'Choices Week' MCEMS and Muhlenberg Counseling Services sponsored a "Mock DUI" event in order to show students the many consequences of drug and alcohol abuse. During the mock DUI, the driver of one of the vehicles was arrested by Muhlenberg College Police Department, one driver was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead, the other two vehicle occupants were critically injured and required a complex extrication and rescue by Allentown Fire Department and rapid stabilization and transport by paramedics from Cetronia Ambulance Corps and City of Allentown EMS.

The mock DUI was also used as a means to better prepare members of MCEMS to set up the Incident Command System that would be used in a large scale incident. This drill also helped MCEMS members interact with other outside agencies which they would work closely with in the event of a disaster on campus.

This initiative has been in response to the events of last April at Virginia Tech in which MCEMS has been preparing for a similar incident on campus and has initiated extensive training and drills to simulate the response to a large scale incident.

This Saturday, Muhlenberg College EMS will be the host of the Lehigh County EMS Alliance "Mass Casualty Incident Response" course and all of its members will be in attendance. Membership has been working hard to improve MCEMS' capability to response to a Mass Casualty Incident on campus by updating our protocols, working closely with other partner responding agencies, and training/drilling our membership in these tactics. "Through our partnership with Muhlenberg College Health Services and Muhlenberg College Department of Campus Safety, we hope to be a major contributor in ensuring the health and safety of all members of the College community," said Les Polk, Captain of MCEMS.

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