Students attend collision simulation day at Fire Station in Offaly

FERBANE Fire Station fire fighters, headed up by Jamie Brazil and station officer Fergal McGuire, organised a staged road traffic collision event supported by members from Birr, Clara and Athlone stations recently.

Present were pupils from the local secondary school comprising of students from first year up.

Also present were the Ambulance services and members of the Garda Public Order Unit.
The simulated event was carried out very realistically with a presentation and demonstration to the pupils and adults present, of what fire fighters face when they are called out to an road traffic accident.

These included the extraction of casualties from a wreckage, some possibly already deceased from the impact, the results of airbag explosion and the damage that may do.

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They also demonstrated a tower rescue and the results of putting water on a chip pan fire and the serious results that action causes.

All this was held in the hope that the group are helping to raise valuable awareness in young people about the dangers of speed and dangerous driving and the mayhem that the emergency services people get called out to.

This was a massively worthwhile exercise by all emergency units and if such events could be staged in every school throughout Ireland, many lives on the roads might be saved.

The students watched the simulation attentively and the hope of the organisers is that it will strike home with them and that they will heed the warnings given when they start driving themselves.

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