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Victims Trained
At the same time classes at Farmington School were winding up, voulunteers were getting lessons in how to act hurt from Dr. David Schenck of Culpeper Hospital’s Hospital’s emergency room staff. The volunteers—Culpeper jayceettes and students from the drama classes at Culpeper High School and fire science classes at Fauquier—were transformed into victims by make-up artists who applied latex, red paint, white chalk and eye shadow to simulate wounds.
Just in case the disaster actors weren’t convincing enough in their portrayals of broken bones, neck and back injuries, burns, lacerations, heart attack and smoke inhalation, each was tagged with a card that listed vital signs and a second that detailed extent of physical damage.
The victims were then driven to the disaster scene on Route 621 and directed to their places in the overturned bus. The actors had been in high spirits more appropriate to a field trip than an emergency training exercise—that is, until the rains came while they waited in the windowless school bus for the fire and rescue units to arrive. “The rain dampened things a bit. It was the only time we had any noise—they were moaning from the rain,” Rosson reported.
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