GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – First responders with multiple agencies met at Emplify Health by Bellin’s Green Bay Hospital on Wednesday morning for a mass casualty incident drill.
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Over 40 first responders participated in the drill, which, in this instance, was designed as a practice response to an active shooter event. The ‘patients’ in the drill were college students who came in through personal and emergency response vehicles, also looking the part.
The mock patients were stretchered into various rooms while bandaged up with realistic but fake wounds across different body parts to showcase the harsh and terrifying reality of these responses.
Organizers said this has been in the works for months, and it took a while because of the sheer number of responses an actual incident like this would require.
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“We’ve been planning for months to do a high-level active shooter drill where the active shooter is offsite and it escalates into a mass casualty incident,” Caitlin Pieshek, an Emplify Health by Bellin Clinical Nurse Educator, said.
The participating agencies, alongside Emplify Health by Bellin staff, were Green Bay Metro Fire and Green Bay Police Department officials, along with Brown County Dispatch.
