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Lifeboat Exercise 21 July 2002

Exercise  - Major Incident - "Red Tide" At Wick Airport and Staxigoe 22 August 03
Setting The Scene
On Thursday evening (21 August 2003) one of the biggest exercises involving all of the emergency services, volunteers from Red Cross and the Caithness General Hospital took place.   The exercise involved an imaginary plane crash following its engines being on fire trying to land at Wick airport and crashing at Staxigoe.  Apart from the plane which had survivors and dead strewn across the area the plane was also supposed to have hit a car causing injuries and trapping the driver.  Casualties were dealt with at the scene and moved into the emergency centre at the village hall and then to Caithness General with a wide variety of injuries that might have happened.  The exercise was deemed to be a great success with only minor points requiring to amend the standing instructions of the services involved suggested at the debriefing afterwards.  About 130 people were involved in the exercise.

Pictures From The Exercise "Red Tide"  22 August

Pics 145 - 156      Pics 157 - 168                Final Pic

Pics 109 - 120                  Pics 121 - 132            Pics 133 - 144

Pics 145 - 156      Pics 157 - 168                Final Pic

Pics 109 - 120                  Pics 121 - 132            Pics 133 - 144

Pics 73 - 84                 Pics 85 - 96                                       Pics 97 - 108

Pics 37 - 48                Pics 49 - 60                                       Pics 61 - 72

Pics 1 - 12                                     Pics 13 - 24                Pics 25 - 36
 

Always Expect The Unexpected - A Real Emergency Happens During The Exercise 22 August
One of the volunteers suffered an angina attack for real as the exercise got underway.  Medical personnel and ambulance men at the scene were immediately alerted and dealth efficiently with the person who was taken to hospital.  the ambulance then returned to rejoin the exercise that continued all over the harbour area.