Dad's Shattered Dreams

Today Dad participated in the Shattered Dreams program at a local high school. The program simulates a drunk driving accident with students in the cars. Local police, fire/rescue, county sheriff, state DPS, and undertakers from a funeral home also participate to make it very realistic. Click on any of the photos to enlarge them. The crowds of people you see in the background are high school students watching.

Here is the accident scene. At this point, the paramedics have already determined that one student was DOA (dead on arrival) and he was pulled out and covered in a sheet. You see firefighters on the left working to get another student out of the car and PD on the right talking to the drunk driver who was subsequently handcuffed and drug off.

Here the firefighters are working to cut the car apart so that they can get the patient out. Dad is in the darker red helmet on the right. I believe he was cutting this side of the car. Paramedics in the gray shirts in the back waiting to have access to the patient. One firefighter is inside the car stabilizing the patient.

Now you can see they've almost dismantled the tan car and another team has gotten a patient out of the blue car.

CPR is in progress as they take the patient from the blue car to the helicopter which just landed nearby.

The patient was finally removed from the tan car and taken by ambulance to a local hospital. Dad is on the far side of the backboard.

After the patients were taken to the hospital, the undertakers pulled in and loaded the kid who "died" into their vehicle & drove off. If I understand correctly, more of the story will unfold to the students as the day carries on and they will have an assembly tomorrow to conclude the program. It was pretty realistic.