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Disaster First Aid - Our Blog
http://disasterfirstaid.blogspot.com
WHAT the Disaster First Aid people and program are doing, WHERE you can ask questions, make suggestions and share your thoughts and ideas with the worldl.
Disaster First Aid is a unique Training System, designed for regular people. You learn the most important and life-saving actions to take when there is a major emergency or disaster, when normal 911 ambulance, rescue and medical emergency services is overwhelmed and can't get there any time soon.
Anybody can do it; any EMT or teacher can teach it.
We live in an increasingly violent world. When emergencies happen, minutes can make the difference between life and death. Simple actions, if done quickly, can save a lot of lives that otherwise might be lost needlessly.
- Added on: Jan 15th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Disaster First Aid - Our Blog
- Listed in: Health Education
- Tags: disaster first aid paramedic emergency Earthquake triage
Recent Posts
What is CERT? - Chapter 1
The initials stand for "Citizen Emergency Response Training" and it got started right here in Oakland in 1990 and was actually born out of the revelation of a remarkable man. In 1989 there was a 7.3 earthquake on a fault they didn't know existed. It ...
Don't Call 911
- Unless you really need it!The first North American emergency number was the 911 system deployed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959. The first US 911 emergency phone system came nine years later and was set up in Alabama in 1968, but it was not i...
People Who Just Don't Care - We Sound Off
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to hit our Disaster First Aid website in large numbers of visitors. They seem to hit the Disaster Triage pages first, and then the what-to-do pages. Some visitors download as many as 44 pages. Well, we wanted ...
Is Your Life Worth the Price of a Pizza?
Interesting to me, can't quite get it - why some people do what they do. With all the Fire Departments, Police Departments, Ambulance Companies, Schools, corporations and miscellaneous others who are teaching the Disaster First Aid course, even thoug...
How Can We Get Disaster First Aid training into Schools?
Dear friends of DFA -I haven't been writing here like I should, so much has been going on - a historic election and a new beginning for our country and our world, and many holidays for many faiths, as well as the winter solstice - the shortest day an...
Hello and welcome to the DFA blog.
This course, Disaster First Aid, has been around since 1996. That's when the book was written and self-published. I was teaching it in the San Francisco Bay area where I live, and I wrote the book for a teaching aid. But things grew, and stuff start...
