I saw a mass casualty/traumatic event ambulance today in Hutto...

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Originally Posted by OpenD

The film crew was probably having lunch when you came by...

Very funny....I was on the freeway and I didn't go by them...they were following me. lol

touche

[Danbo1957]

Brackenridge Hospital is a Level I trauma center.

[love roses]

Originally Posted by Decidigi

I saw it at the open house at Camp Mabry in April. If I remember correctly it's got something like 20 beds in it.

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Aha. So they must be taking it around for emergency crews to get familiar with it.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by Danbo1957

Brackenridge Hospital is a Level I trauma center.

Whatever level it is, they can save an accident victim's life after he's already bled out 3 liters from his severed femoral artery.

God Bless those wonderful ER folks!

[centralaustinite]

Originally Posted by Danbo1957

Brackenridge Hospital is a Level I trauma center.

Yes, sorry about that, thanks for the correction. I knew that they were the highest level possible for a trauma center, just got the levels confused with NICUs where the higher the number, the better the center.

[UKjay]

Brackenridge trauma center took good care of me....I'm still here. It is good to know there is a Level 1 trauma center in Austin. Hope to never be there again. As much as we miss the UK, my injuries would have left me pushing up daisies.

Someone mentioned train derailment; does anyone remember the derailment in Round Rock some years ago? I hear the derailment was quite devasting (evacuations), but I cannot find the details. All my info is second hand, but the intersection of Red Bud and Hwy 79 was involved.

[Trainwreck20]

There have been several train derailments in RR over the years (at least three). I think the more recent one was the train hitting a large vehicle (garbage truck, maybe?) and derailing somewhere parallel to 79.

Many years before that, part of a train de-coupled and eventually rolled back through part of RR and derailed outside of town. There was a fire and a vinyl chloride car, which led to a pretty large scale evacuation.

[love roses]

I know some firemen around here who say that anything going wrong with any of the trains that roll through here would be a huge problem, especially the ones carrying dangerous chemicals.

[trixiekc]

There's also a huge football stadium here--if there was ever a collapse or problem there, one of these mass casualty ambulances would be a big help in triage.