School administrators, firefighters and nurses gathered last month for a Stop-the-Bleed class in Haines. Participants practiced lifesaving wound care skills, and discussed how the separate agencies would cooperate in case of a mass casualty incident in rural Alaska. As KHNS’s Jenn Shelton reports, first responders had to apply a tourniquet to a bleeding mannequin in under 30 seconds to earn a Stop-the-Bleed certification.
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