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DISPATCH Peninsula Clarion To further the local media's understanding of first responder situations, Central Emergency Services (CES) has sponsored a media day for the last four years. From dressing reporters in Scott Air Packs and leading them into live fire training situations, to placing them in wrecked autos so they can feel what it's like to have a car cut away from a trapped victim of an auto wreck with the jaws of life, to river water rescue and opening an airway of a comatose victim, journalists have gained hands on experience of what CES personnel may experience whenever they answer a call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. "It's an excellent opportunity for us to share the experience with them by giving them a similar hands on experience to try what we may have to do on a daily basis," explained CES Capt. Lesley Quelland. This year's media day focused on airway management, I.V. therapy, nonresponsive and unconscious patient, and what an EMT's initial response would look like when called.

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