Earthquake Damage at the Northridge earthquake. The first story of this building collapsed. (photo by Jeff McBrayer, EMT-P)
During the Northridge earthquake, these children's mother was injured and had to be transported for surgery. DMAT personnel took on the temporary role of "surrogate mother" to these hungry children. Just like in regular medicine, almost every patient needs compassion and understanding as much as they need medical care. (photo by Mike Foster, EMT-P)
When normal communications are inoperable, HAM radio is an excellent way to communicate with the rest of the world. NM DMAT travels with several types of communications in addition to HAM, such as satellite telephone/fax. (photo by Mike Foster, EMT-P)
Incoming patients are triaged, much the way they would be in a standard hospital. (photo by Mike Foster, EMT-P)
The treatment tent is designed to simulate a standard hospital treatment room. This picture was taken during a slow time, frequently there are many patients being treated at the same time. (photo by Jeff McBrayer, EMT-P)
Here the team is staged at March AFB, preparing to be deployed to the Northridge earthquake. (photo by Jeff McBrayer, EMT-P)
Recent Delivery
A father sees his new baby daughter for the first time as DMAT members
look on. The child was the first child delivered by a DMAT, and was born
after an emergency c-section in a tent hospital on St. Croix, U.S.V.I.,
after Hurricane Hugo, 1989. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
A DMAT nurse carries a newborn girl from a portable surgical suite to an incubator in a tent hospital on St. Croix. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
Air Ambulance
DMAT members, California Air Guard personnel, and ambulance personnel,
prepare to load a boy suffering head injuries onto a C-130 for a flight
to Honolulu. The boy was injured on Kauai, Hawaii, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Iniki, 1992. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
Injured Girl
DMAT members treat a girl injured in the Northridge earthquake of 1994.
The N.M. DMAT set up a clinic in tents in a parking lot in the Canoga
Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
DMAT paramedic G.K. Massara holds a newborn girl delivered after Hurricane Hugo on St. Croix, U.S.V.I., in 1989. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
This tent hospital was set up by National Guard members in the parking lot of the St. Croix Medical Center after the hospital was badly damaged by Hurricane Hugo. N.M. DMAT members staff the tent hospital. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
A DMAT paramedic gives a tetanus shot to a young man during house-to-house medical outreach missions in the Perrine neighborhood of Dade County, Fla. The N.M. DMAT was one of several sent to south Florida after Hurricane Andrew. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
DMAT members check on a man whose home lost its roof during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. DMAT members checked on hundreds of people in the Perrine neighhborhood of Dade County, Fla. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
Neighborhood
New Mexico and Toledo, Ohio, DMAT members talk with residents of the Perrine
neighborhood after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
DMAT members suture a scalp wound on a woman injured in the Northridge earthquake in 1994. Team members worked in a tent clinic set up in a parking lot. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
DMAT members and California National Guard members treat mock earthquake victims at a drill at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., in 1989. Ironically, the day of the drill, the Bay Area (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
Peggy Hesch, along with the crew of the 713th MED CO (AA) UH-60, getting a patient ready for transport to Santa Fe from Los Alamos during the Cerro Grande fire. (photo by Steve Shoup, EMT-I)
