Video: BHS Students Participate in Life Saving EMT Training

On Friday, Bethel High School students, dressed in the bulky uniforms of firefighters, participated in removing a “victim” from a serious accident.  Fire fighters from the Bethel Fire Department on South Street gave several hours of their time to Emergency Medical Training (EMT) students from BHS Teacher Sherri Holmberg’s class.  

 Using the tools sometimes referred to as The Jaws of Life, enormous hydraulic cutters and spreaders made fast work of taking the car apart. Three students sat in the back seat as all four doors were removed, while the injured victim, a mannequin, remained strapped into the front seat.  The victim was tended to by students as the firefighters removed windows, cut seat belts, and sliced through the panels that held the car together.  

This four minute video took place over approximately an hour, which might have been an excruciatingly long time for an injured, trapped victim, however, firefighter Brendan Ryan said that in a real situation, people can be removed quickly.

Students took the class very seriously, and many of the students are planning careers in health care. 

BHS students who participated were:

Brian Bergen

Yajira Anaya, Shanelle Edwards

Jonathon De Los Sanos

Madhumita Das

Bryan Green

Brian Wille

Mike Kalota

Elena Rinaldi

Chuck Bosworth

Lydia Socci

Douglas Matturo