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Great Basin College drill exposes radio gaps during simulated heat and mass-casualty response
Summary
Great Basin College ran a combined heat-exposure and multi-vehicle accident exercise April 24 that tested hospital transport and field communications; organizers said an after‑action report will be shared next week and identified radio-to-hospital communications as a primary issue.
Great Basin College ran an exercise on April 24 that combined extreme heat‑exposure scenarios (heat exhaustion and heat stroke) with a multi‑vehicle collision to test local response coordination and hospital transport, Jamie Carlson said.
"So we did the GBC exercise, on April 24," Carlson said, describing a sequence that included heat casualties and a shortly following multi-vehicle crash. Participants included NNRH, a simulated GBC hospital, Manor and Convergence Health, Elko County sheriff's office, Elko city police, county ambulance and fire units, Nevada Gold Mines, Intermountain House and Atlas Towing, Carlson said. She said evaluators from GBC completed the drill and an after‑action report should be ready to share with the committee next week.
Jamie Carlson also highlighted a communications problem uncovered during the drill: "We found out that our radios weren't communicating to the hospitals this year," she said, adding that calls were made but radio links to receiving hospitals failed and that the issue will be addressed in the after‑action report.
The committee discussed training follow-ups and the value of multi‑agency participation. The drill was presented as a learning exercise rather than a basis for immediate policy change; committee members asked that the after‑action report include recommended fixes for radio interoperability and any equipment or procedural updates required for future exercises.
