N.L. discovers city fire department Delsar Sensor - By N.L. Belardes
Now this is citizen journalism...
Dear Bakersfield City Fire Department:
I was at work downtown on Wednesday during what I’m calling a ‘media event’ that was planned for months ahead of time. I knew about it at work through a series of corporate emails. The Bakersfield Californian cited city firefighters as indicating the event was a large multi-casualty drill that that was to overrun a four-block segment of downtown from 9 to 11 a.m., simulating a bombing and hazardous materials contamination. The event was scheduled to test the medical response system’s ability to prepare for actual emergencies. Participating agencies are supposed to get a formal critique showing where the areas in their response can be strengthened…
Let me just begin that critique.
I was in the vicinity of downtown today. In fact, I was in the very parking lot where the simulated bomb went off. To my surprise, I found a device just sitting in the parking structure...
In my wild-eyed conspiratorial thinking I at first I thought I’d found some kind of trigger device that helps the bomb squad detonate explosives. I definitely didn’t want that lying around…
I then did what many corporate working folks do. I went to my job and forgot about the outside world...
Until I got home.
Then my curiosity got the best of me. I searched online for what the device could be. I mean, did the device belong to the fire department, the police department, or was this something mayor Harvey Hall carried around with him during his Wednesday morning photo-op? I needed to find out. I did see a bazillion media folk wandering around from my perch on Wednesday. I wondered why so many folks were on-hand. I wondered why I was a looky-loo myself…
After careful research I’m guessing this device belongs to the fire department search and rescue. A Delsar Sensor is not a cheap toy. Lives depend on it as part of a search and rescue kit that I’m certain is paid for by Kern County tax dollars.
It’s a rather bright neon-coated sensor too. I’m surprised it was left behind. Was it because the event started a few minutes late? Was the mayor distracting? Are there more Delsar Sensors missing?
You’d think careful inventory would have been taken to assure all pieces of the kit were accounted for. I mean, the media event was Wednesday. And I just found this device sitting in the open in broad daylight on Friday?
Please contact me so this sensor can be returned to its search and rescue case and help save lives…
Dear Bakersfield City Fire Department:
I was at work downtown on Wednesday during what I’m calling a ‘media event’ that was planned for months ahead of time. I knew about it at work through a series of corporate emails. The Bakersfield Californian cited city firefighters as indicating the event was a large multi-casualty drill that that was to overrun a four-block segment of downtown from 9 to 11 a.m., simulating a bombing and hazardous materials contamination. The event was scheduled to test the medical response system’s ability to prepare for actual emergencies. Participating agencies are supposed to get a formal critique showing where the areas in their response can be strengthened…
Let me just begin that critique.
I was in the vicinity of downtown today. In fact, I was in the very parking lot where the simulated bomb went off. To my surprise, I found a device just sitting in the parking structure...
In my wild-eyed conspiratorial thinking I at first I thought I’d found some kind of trigger device that helps the bomb squad detonate explosives. I definitely didn’t want that lying around…
I then did what many corporate working folks do. I went to my job and forgot about the outside world...
Until I got home.
Then my curiosity got the best of me. I searched online for what the device could be. I mean, did the device belong to the fire department, the police department, or was this something mayor Harvey Hall carried around with him during his Wednesday morning photo-op? I needed to find out. I did see a bazillion media folk wandering around from my perch on Wednesday. I wondered why so many folks were on-hand. I wondered why I was a looky-loo myself…
After careful research I’m guessing this device belongs to the fire department search and rescue. A Delsar Sensor is not a cheap toy. Lives depend on it as part of a search and rescue kit that I’m certain is paid for by Kern County tax dollars.
It’s a rather bright neon-coated sensor too. I’m surprised it was left behind. Was it because the event started a few minutes late? Was the mayor distracting? Are there more Delsar Sensors missing?
You’d think careful inventory would have been taken to assure all pieces of the kit were accounted for. I mean, the media event was Wednesday. And I just found this device sitting in the open in broad daylight on Friday?
Please contact me so this sensor can be returned to its search and rescue case and help save lives…
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Friday, October 28, 2005.
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