DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND
SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM

This team consists of maintenance employees and 25% of staff that is physically fit and/or has first aid knowledge and two directors.

Post Location: Amphitheater
Equipment Location: Medical container on the softball field. Hopefully, the Custodian or his assistants can bring supplies to the amphitheater. There are six trashcans containing the supplies. They are numbered 1 through 6. The content list is located on the inside of the trash can lid.

Equipment includes: Damage Assessment Report forms, one portable radio, walkie-talkies, shovel, protective clothing (hard hat, goggles, dust mask, leather gloves, latex gloves,) flashlight, stretchers, first aid duffel bags, green and red stickers, chalk, rescue tools (crowbar and shovel), search and rescue forms.

PROCEDURES: Always have a buddy with you!

1. Mr. Yoshida directs team: Put on protective clothing. There are 2 duffel bags. One is for first aid. The other has equipment (i.e., crowbar, flashlight). Make sure student team members are paired with each team. Extra student runners should be sent to amphitheater to be used as needed and as regular students tire. Liz Nomura assists with information.

2. Mrs. Darling: Put out fires, if possible, requesting assistance from Command Center, if necessary. Determine if the gas must be shut off, shut off, if necessary. (Should be done by the custodian, associate principal, or designated person.) Be ready for incoming information to relay to teams. Denise Ball assists with information.

3. Mr. Yoshida and teams: Assess rooms and search for victims where there is an emergency red code (sticker) first AND wherever you have information that an injury has occurred. You will receive this information through the Command Center and/or your leader (Mrs. Darling) station in the amphitheater. The other messages will come through the walkie-talkies. Have one person in each team listening and make communication is precise and clear.

4. Have 2 members of each team determine the safety of the area while others stand outside. Give okay to enter. Search every room to insure that it is safe to enter and for other team members to remove injured people. Runners (students assigned to assist) are to remain outside buildings but can assist by carrying materials and stretchers.

5. Some members of each team will perform first aid and call for assistance using the walkie-talkie OR a runner. Runners will bring you information from the Command Center or Amphitheater in order to help locate missing persons. Crisis information should not be shouted on walkie-talkies . . . use a runner.

6. Search LAST KNOWN location of missing person first. Rescue victims and perform emergency first aid. (Check for bleeding, shock, airway.) Load victims onto stretchers and transport injured to Medical Aid Team (triage area).

7. Mr. Yoshida and Mrs. Darling: Use the walkie-talkies to communicate serious injuries to the Medical Aid Team as you are bringing them to the area. Teams and Mr. Yoshida: Communicate to Mrs. Darling at the Amphitheater the location and condition of the injured victims. Information will be marked on large maps and record sheets.

8. Mr. Yoshida and teams: When known injured have been located and moved, perform an organized search of all facilities. There may be adults (volunteers) or others on the school grounds that administrators and staff were unaware of. As you exit each room, indicate condition with the colored stickers: green to indicate all clear or red to indicate emergency or do not enter. Close the door but do not lock.

9. Mrs. Darling: Send Search and Rescue reports to Command Center as necessary and update information regarding missing persons. When making a status report on walkie-talkie, keep radio transmissions brief and state what team you are on and who is talking.

10. Mrs. Darling (leader) will document all damages to facilities using the Damage Assessment Report form found on the clipboard. Use runners to take information to the Amphitheater. New reports will be made following aftershocks and every two hours if no more aftershocks.

11. All team members report to Mr. Yoshida or Mrs. Darling at the Amphitheater for reassignment.

Use Your Runners (2 or more for each team) to:

1. Take messages to Command Center and/or Medical Team
2. Carry first aid bags and any other equipment, i.e., stretchers. (May need 6 to carry a stretcher.) Runners must not go into building/room with you. However, after an injured person has been removed from a building to an open and safe place, runners can stay with the victim until victim can be transported to Triage. (Runner must have first aid knowledge.)
3. Help transport victims to Triage.
4. Bring additional items from cargo container as needed . . . water, flashlights, ropes, canopies, portapotties (and can set them up)

Note: Please allow runners to rest periodically.

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