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Tehama County Interagency Mass Casualty Unit
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2005 Honoring Brian Smalley, Red Bluff Fire Department 

Tehama County and California state agencies worked diligently together to produce a successful local project - Tehama County Interagency Mass Casualty Unit. Affectionately known by 1st Responders as the Mass Casualty Incident "MCI Trailer".

Tehama County Interagency Mass Casualty Unit became fully operational on April 15, 2003 in just 13 months after the concept was presented.

The communication, cooperation, collaboration and coordination of our agencies, partners and stakeholders including local elected officials made this happen.

Tehama County Interagency Mass Casualty Unit is a three-axle Featherlite Trailer that supports medical, fire and/or hazardous material teams.

True Community Effort

Contained within are examples of what makes Tehama County ... community contributions, multi-agencies equipment/supplies purchases and hours of hard work and training.
Thank You Tehama County

This asset has already been demonstrated and copied by other counties.

The Tehama County MCI trailer has been utilized for a full-scale HAZMAT exercise on May 21, 2003 and functional exercises on Dec 4, 2003 and Dec 6, 2003. On March 28, 2004 the California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) and the Red Bluff Fire Department completed 24 hours of Hazardous Materials First Responders Operational training for 26 individuals utilizing the MCI trailer.

With 6000 watts of built in lighting, on-board generator, personal protective equipment (PPE) and decontamination equipment first responders are able to provide basic emergency medical services and decontamination of victims after dark, handling up to 50 victims.

This unit also carries color-coded tent facilities to accommodate a surge of patients and creates field treatment sites by triage level. This unit has become a critical element of Tehama County and Region III disaster/bioterrorism preparedness and mutual aid response.
A special thank you Brian Smalley from the Red Bluff Fire Department who was the driving force behind the Tehama County Interagency Mass Casualty Unit Project.
Link to Memorial Service May 26, 2008
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