The first 48 hours are considered the most critical when dealing with disasters. Some of the first responders on the scene at the Neo Victoria building disaster on May 6 were members of the George Fire Brigade, who received their first call for help at 14:10.
Years of training and experience kick in when you get to such a disaster. With his 36 years of experience at the fire brigade, Barnard has never experienced something like this. He explained the process of assessing the situation, the triage of patients, rescuing the first patients and getting them to the hospital.
'It was the big one. You are always waiting for that big one. You never hope for it, but you know it is going to come at some stage,' said Brand.'We started working as a team, we applied triage, tried to establish which patients should be treated first and started with the rescue operation. We moved on to the patients we could not see, but only hear. We called for resources from the rest of the province as soon as possible.
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