Just curious if anyone knows of any local affordable western Washington First Aid Trauma/Tactical medical classes for civilians that I can look into. Located in Marysville so trying to keep it somewhat close if possible. Looks like Norpoint has a class listed in their training section but nothing on the schedule in the near future and I have not heard back yet on when they may offer it again. Thank you

now, I have been away from it for a long time, but while in the army I was an EMT, but used the skills as basic first responder. Then for the unit they sent me to Red Cross Lifeguard training taught by the Red Cross in berlin (interesting, it was in a Olympic practice pool, from the Berlin games! Anyway, got into Red Cross training and for the next 6 years taught Lifeguard, then CPR and of course in the army I learned first responder.

Point is that there are many 1st Responder Red Cross and CPR training that you can attend for fairly cheap and gets you started.

Thanks I’ll check out redcross for sure. Any other resources would be great from others that may have taken something.


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Sometimes this email works better when contacting Norpoint than their site page:

sbentley@norpointmaritime.com

Thank you!


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I will give it a shot thanks!


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Call your local fire department. Many offer first aid and CPR classes all the time.

Mountaineers hold Mountain Oriented First Aid (MOFA) pretty regularly. It's usually a good class.

Took the class years ago... right after the Back Injury unit I went to the state park near Palouse Falls. It's on the Snake river. There is, in addition to the highway bridge crossing the river, a railroad trestle. that crosses there. From the camp grounds, the trains sitting on top of that trestle look like toys... it's pretty tall.

Around dinner time as I was cooking my slop, some high school aged kids climbed up on the trestle and were walking to mid-span with the intent, I presume, to bridge jump. Now this bridge is verrrrrry tall. A couple of the kids climbed down to the caisson footings and were jumping into the river from there.

We watched the kids up on the bridge for a while and when I turned around to tend to my dinner one of the kids on top of the trestle finally worked up his nerve and jumped! He hit the water HARD, went under and didn't come back up. My buddy says: "Jim, I think you should probably get on over there!

The kids down below jumped in, grabbed him and started swimming him back to shore. By then I was at a dead run to meet them. I passed a guy who was running up from the river who told me he was on his way to the fish hatchery near by in order to get the back-board which, it became apparent, was definitely needed. Before he got back and by the time I reached the shore, some of the kids friends had gotten a blanket under him as a make-shift stretcher were starting to haul him out of the water intent upon dragging him up the steep railroad grade. They and everybody on the shore was running around pretty panicked shouting "does anyone know first aid?!?" As no one else spoke up, I did, and tried to look calm and like I knew what I was doing. I'm glad I knew what little I did at the time. They all asked "What do we DO!?!?" I told them the first thing to do is to NOT drag and jostle him around on that blanket and to wait for the back-board. They all seemed relieved that someone had at least a notion of what to do/not do.

It took probably 5-10 minutes for the guy to run and get the back-board and run all the way back... although it seemed like forever. The kid was in a lot of pain. Fortunately the fishery guys had called the closest hospital to initiate professional response. Once we got the kid out of the river and on the back board, it was only a little bit longer until a skiff from the resort/motel across the river was on the way to us. We lifted him into the boat and by the time he was on his way back across the river, a helicopter was landing in the parking lot!

The kid had amazing luck that day as emergency response by all individuals was fast and well done. Truly amazing. I called the hospital sometime later and they weren't going to release any information until I urged the nurse to spout up since I was one of the folks who helped the kid. She told me he had suffered "multiple spinal fractures" .

Yep. Take the classes, any classes you can get.

C.E.R.T. is free and contains first aid along with everything else. It is the everything else you are more likely to encounter. Redmond CERT is goid.
For tacmed TCCC is probably online. If you leave out administration of needle decomp and NPAs, you can learn/practice with TQs on yourself/good buddies...which will do you no good unless you carry at least one at all times/places.
Step one in tacmed is stop the maker of holes in people from making anymore holes. You'd better practice this as well.

Community Colleges used to have First Aid courses.

One option is to join your local fire department, go through and EMT class, get real life experience, and give back to your local community all at once. Volunteer departments always need help and most of the guys love to shoot. An EMT class will run about a grand. You will need to be associated with an EMS service to maintain a license, but you can just go through the 120 hour course for the knowledge.

Most SAR/DART units offer free classes for your volunteering.

I did a wilderness first aid course last year. It was offered by REI, taught by NOLS, and hosted at the mountaineers in Tacoma.

I can't remember what it cost but it was more than reasonable for a two day class. It would be a good basic class to start with.

The events page on the REI website doesn't seem to be working. Maybe try it later.

Yes I have found some online TCCC classes I can take. I do carry a tourniquet and know how to apply one. I am a corrections officer for a police department and train regularly with my firearm both thru my department and my own time. We are trained in some basic first aid for dealing with inmates and so forth. I am cpr certified and all that, I have been more interested in taking some hands on TCCC classes to develop a better working knowledge of serious trauma. I will probably start with the online TCCC classes and go from there. Thanks


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