Recent Activity
Here are a few shots taken at just some of the drills
Regional Dive Drill 2/26/2011 Camp Woodstock
Divers from all over the region came for four days of dive rescue training.
Here, there are three separate lines and crews out on the
lake.
Bungay divers Captain Nick Webster and Aaron Perry
Auburn MA Live Burn
Paramedic interface training
AMR Paramedic / Training Officer Roland Vespia reviewed his Medic equipment with members of the three town departments
Chimney Fire Drill
Assistant Chief Sean Griffin and Fire Captain Nick Webster "Command and Operations"
EMS Captain Rich Dempsey wondering why he's up there.
Mass Casualty Drill At the Woodstock Fairgrounds.
A practice for all three Woodstock departments working with surrounding towns fire and ambulance crews.
Volunteers were made up to look like they were suffering from serious injuries
Victims were removed by fire attack crews, to the triage
area
After triage, victims were taken to the tranpost area and to
waiting ambulances
Rope Rescue
Auto Extrication Drill
Live Burn Drill -Pomfret 4/28/2010
Above. Tough conditions, heavy smoke and fire in a very confined space
Bungay Crews went back to Pomfret for more practice in our mandatory SCBA drill.
Left. Lt. Nick Webster ready to lead a team in.
Live Burn Drill -Pomfret 4/19/2010
Bungay crews practice under actual fire conditions in a
special burn facility
Dive drill
Woodstock Dive Team
Dive Drill 4/18/2010 at Black Pond
with Bungay, Muddy Brook and WVFA Personel.
We recovered a few floating docks for the WMCA camp. A great opportunity to give back to them for their donation for the rehab tent.
It was also an excellent drill for divers and ground crews.
Practice makes perfect, here the divers return to shore
Auto Extrication
Bungay Crews practice vehicle extrication. Here they are removing a victim from a car on it's side
Here, they have removed the roof while protecting the victim (under the yellow blanket) and are now lifting the dashboard to free the legs.
Injured hunter drill on a very cold Sunday morning.
Five degrees with a ten below windchill didn't stop us. Here
the victim is being brought to shore
Line Crew, It was cold out there! Each rescuer has a safety
line and the rescue basket had a line. The line crew has standby safety
personel
Rescuers had to don our new Mustang immersion suits in order to cross a swamp and a running stream in order to get to the "victim". Here he is being packaged on a stokes litter to be brought to safety
Bungay fire crews practice fighting propane flames with WVFA and Muddy Brook.
Bungay Crews start their approach under the watchfull eyes of
the safety officer
Teamwork- a few carefull steps later, the fire is
out
Lost in the woods drill. Another cold Sunday morning crews practiced setting up search patterns.
Crews stayed warm in the new rehab shelter.
Special thanks to the Lake Bunggee Tax District for being a major contributor towards the purchase of the shelter. Linemaster Switch Corp, Camp Woodstock YMCA and the Jackman family also contributed
Rescue crews laying out search patterns using
portable GPS units and all terrain vehicles.