By AARON DAVIS as published in the East Bay Times| [email protected] | PUBLISHED: April 12, 2017 at 2:21 pm | UPDATED: April 13, 2017 at 5:38 am

洛斯梅达诺斯学院的大规模伤亡模拟视频

PITTSBURG — At 9 a.m., students in the nursing and paramedic programs at Los Medanos College were informed that an active shooter had been taken down by police, but not before killing and injuring multiple victims.

这是一场模拟，但许多学生的神经紧张是真实的。

I'm scared and a bit nervous to see what the affected people will come in with," said Sheela Bakhsh, a senior in the college's nursing program. "This is our first time, and we've never experienced anything like this before. 我希望他们都安全。”

The mass casualty simulation was the second time the two departments had to work together to rescue, triage and treat patients as a team.

Los Medanos College nursing students portray the injured as students in the EMT program arrive on the scene during a training exercise at Los Medanos Community College. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area 新闻 Group)

Faculty in the registered nurse, police services and emergency medical technician programs, as well as LMC's fire academy, wanted to test their students before sending them out into the world where a real event such as this could happen.

For some students, Monday's school shooting at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino was a reminder that these types of events aren't as uncommon as they would like.

“这很严重。 In real life, this is probably going to be even more stressful, but it's a good beginning," said Olga Shvaleva, an LMC nursing student.

While there was an initial miscommunication at the start of the simulation, EMS students found their way to the site where the shooter had taken a number of victims and began triage on them.

Students covered in fake blood or wearing fake arms with burns and injuries on them wandered around the quad, wailing. 那些没有喊叫的人是最令人担忧的。 Overall, there were two deaths, a cardiac arrest, an amputated limb, numerous burns and instances of traumatic brain injury and a child born seven weeks early.

Kaitlyn Vaught, left, a student in the EMT program at Los Medanos College, and nursing program student Kristynn Aquino tend to "burn victim" Moreen Redita, also a nursing student, during a training exercise at the college in Pittsburg, Calif. on Wednesday. The exercise, which simulated an on-campus shooting and explosion, provided an opportunity for students to test their emergency response skills. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area 新闻 Group)

Just as the EMTs were taking in the most critically injured patients, first responders were told of an explosion from a pipe bomb that the shooter had placed earlier. A team split off to assess the incident while a group remained behind to care for the casualties from the shooting.

Nursing student Kristen Lee wandered around asking about her missing dog, while EMS student Havea Lasike tried to calm Lee down and read her vital signs.

"This is very typical in our line of work, where a secondary event happens near where the initial event occurred," said Mike Hotton, traffic officer for the college's police services. 霍顿还在周三的模拟演习中担任了事故指挥官。 “我们需要完美地训练，这样我们才能完美地表演。”

EMS students Josh Marchio and Taylor King huddled together with 天博 students near the area of the explosion after the simulation had ended.

“我们本应该更加协调，”马尔乔说。 "We got messed up staying coordinated, but it's good to get the practice here."

King agreed, adding that it's better to make the mistakes here than when a real disaster presents itself.

LMC nursing faculty member Julie O'Brien was one of several staff members to organize the event, after seeing the success of the "Every 15 Minutes" program that teaches teens about drinking or texting while driving through a simulated car crash. The premise of the program, which began in 1995, was that every 15 minutes, a person dies in an alcohol-related car crash. Since the program started, the rate of alcohol-related deaths has gone down to one every 56.5 minutes in 2015.

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Los Medanos College (LMC) is one of three colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District. LMC prepares students to excel and succeed economically, socially and intellectually in an innovative, engaging and supportive learning environment. It provides quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities to serve the needs of a rapidly growing and changing East County while enhancing the quality of life of the diverse communities it serves. LMC is located on 120 acres between Pittsburg and Antioch, with an additional education center in Brentwood.