Preparedness Month’s Safety Day Event

Ware County Community Emergency Response Team & Satilla Medical Reserve Corps National Preparedness Month’s Safety Day Event

Saturday morning September 22, around 10:15 a.m. a lot of activity was going on in Waycross. Ware County 9-1-1 dispatch received a call from Lowe’s Home Improvement on Memorial Drive. and the caller stated that a pedestrian was hit by a truck and thrown onto the pavement. Ware County 9-1-1 dispatched the appropriate public safety agencies to the scene. Ware County Emergency Medical Service arrived on scene with Paramedic Troy Humbers and EMT-I Nick Johnson who started performing patient care. Waycross Fire/Rescue arrived along with the Waycross Police department shortly after and assisted the Emergency Medical Service. Waycross Fire/Rescue Battalion Chief Morris Clark and his personnel set up a secure landing zone in the parking lot for the Air Evac medical helicopter to land. The Waycross Police department investigated the accident and officers also helped secure the entrances to the parking lot for the medical helicopter. Pilot Jim DeNigris landed the Air Evac medical helicopter and flight nurse Anita Gardner along with flight paramedic Richard Johnson went to the ambulance to prepare the trauma victim for the flight. The trauma victim was then loaded into the Air Evac medical helicopter and transferred to a near by trauma center and survived with limited disability thanks to the quick response and action of the Waycross/Ware County Public Safety agencies and Air Evac Life team.

The incident photographs on this page were of a training exercise hosted by Lowe’s Home Improvement in Waycross, GA. No one was injured in the event and after the exercise local Public Safety agencies participated in a safety day event to better prepare the citizens of the community. The public safety agencies that participated were the Ware County Emergency Medical Service, Ware County Community Emergency Response Team, Ware County Fire/Rescue, Ware County Emergency Management Agency, Ware County Sheriff’s Office, GSP, Captain Luther Hires with the Coastal Area Traffic Enforcement Network, Waycross Fire/Rescue, Waycross Police Department, Satilla Medical Reserve Corps, Ware County 9-1-1, Okefenokee Emergency Medical Service and the American Red Cross. A special thank you goes to Dr. Bill Parham and Lori Henderson, R.N, of the Satilla Medical Reserve Corps, Melissa Hyers, Larry Soul, Debbyee Dixon, Robby Parham and Janice Ziko of the Ware County Community Emergency Team, Rhonda Taylor with the American Red Cross Disaster Services, Corey Tatum of Lowe’s, Waycross Fire/Rescue Chief David Eddins, Battalion Chief Morris Clark, Ware County 9-1-1 Director Fay Cooper, Ware County Fire/Rescue Chief Dennis Keen and Captain Scott Brantley. Also thanks go to Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner, Emergency Management Director Jonathan Daniell, Ware County Sheriff Randy Royal and Derek Harrison at yourWARELOCAL.com. It is an honor to work with such a high quality of public safety agencies said Perry Blackburn, Ware County Citizen Corps Coordinator.