The Eure emergency services are preparing to act in the event of a disaster

1:04 p.m. A telephone rings at the call reception and regulation center (CRRA 15) at the Eure Seine Hospital Center. A regulation assistant heads straight to the device, located in a corner of the room: it is a priority call. He listens to the message from the ARS and returns to his post to transmit the information to the regulating doctor.

An accident on the opening night of the Olympic Games

2 km from Évreux station, in the Cherbourg-Paris direction, a train has just derailed. Many people were on board, which justifies the triggering of an exceptional health situation. “It’s the evening of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. Many tourists took the train. There are 400 travelers. Two wagons are lying on their sides, there are a lot of victims,” explains Vanessa Colin, who is leading the exercise.

The teams know they are participating in a training session, but they know nothing about the scenario. “Action!” says the trainer, once her briefing of less than two minutes is over. The stakes for the eight doctors and thirteen paramedical staff is now to get there as quickly as possible and set up the advanced medical posta huge inflatable tent, and the appropriate equipment to take care of the twenty-three victims.

Sorting the victims

For more than two hours, emergency workers will try to manage this crisis situation as best they can. The victims were made up for the occasion. THE injuries are ultra realistic and correspond to this type of accident. “We have trauma, fractures, dermabrasions and hemorrhages. It goes from head to toe,” explains Clara Mouton, who makes up the volunteers at the hospital center. To push the realism even further, some must play the shocked, even agitated, victims.

Outnumbered by the wounded, caregivers are overwhelmed. They must make choices and sorting between emergencies absolute emergencies, relative emergencies, minor injuries… All this under the eye of observers who will participate in the debrief which will be held at the end of the day.

On the eve of the Olympic Games, these exercises are taken very seriously. And they are multiplying. “The scenario is credible,” assures Vanessa Colin. “In Eure, we have trains, training sites, the passage of the flame…” Adapted to all types of situations, these simulations are necessary to keep staff alert and efficient on the ground.

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