On Saturday, August 22 Offutt Air Force Base and civilian response agencies held a Major Accident Response Exercise in preparation for the Offutt Open House on Saturday, August 29 and Sunday, August 30.
Military and civilian moulage artists made up or "moulaged" the "victims" at Midlands Community Hospital. Moulage includes a variety of procedures for making up participants of exercises so that they look like they have real injuries. Realistic injuries increase the effectiveness of community disaster drills and exercises.
Military and civilian responders assessed the severity of injuries and transported the wounded to area hospitals. Base security personnel maintained the crash site as a crime scene for later investigation.
Patients were triaged again at the hospital and assistance was simulated. After the exercise, a debriefing allowed participants to exchange feedback . Plans and training calendars will reflect exercise feedback.

Thanks to all exercise participants!

All injuries depicted on this page are made up to look real. No one was hurt in the creation of these photos. If photos of stage blood or staged burns, bruises or impaled objects are unacceptable to you, please use the back arrow on your browser now!

Photos From the Major Accident Response Exercise

Shrapnel in forehead	Shrapnel in neck	Creating the burn
Facial cuts	Hand laceration	Neck injury in place to recreate a laceration
Shrapnel to the arm and fingers	Red Cross volunteers	OAFB Crash 6
Putting out the fire	Plattsmouth Fire assists	Onlookers
Rescuers head into the field	Civilians transport a military victim	Patient Assessment
Patient ready for transport	Rendering assistance in the field	Moving patient to triage
OAFB Squad transports	Critical patient	Triage area
Another view of triage	Impaled object in eye	Matching c-collars
Shrapnel in face	Hospital triage	Waiting at Midlands
Last patient to Midlands	Debriefing after the drill	Notice no one wanted to take the makeup off?

Click on any of the thumbnail photos above to see a larger, detailed image.  Hit the "BACK" button on your browser to return to this page.

All photographs are property of, and used with the permission of, No reproduction, rebroadcast, or other use of these images is allowed without the express written approval of the owner.

Return to the Sarpy County Emergency Management Agency Home Page

Return to the Sarpy County Emergency Management and Communication Agency Home Page

comments to Sarpy County EMA.

You are visitor number .  Thanks for stopping by!

Created August 22, 1998

This document qualifies as HTML 4.0 transitional!