Disaster exercise returns to Mozingo
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Northwest Missouri State University is seeking volunteers for its third annual disaster response field training exercise set for Sept. 18-20 at the Mozingo Outdoor Education Recreation Area.
Community members along with local and state first-responders are needed to role-play disaster victims and “spontaneous volunteers.” Other tasks include applying moulage (injury makeup) and assisting behind the scenes.
Volunteers must be age 5 or older. Children and teens under age 17 must have permission from a guardian and participate with a supervising adult.
The Missouri Hope 2015 Disaster Response Field Training Exercise is an intensive three-day simulation required for students enrolled as majors or minors in Northwest’s emergency disaster management program.
Volunteers are needed to participate from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18; during two separate shifts from 6 a.m. to noon or 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19; or from 6:30 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Anyone interested should email Peter Adam, assistant professor of biology, at [email protected] or Alice Foose at [email protected] by Wednesday Sept. 16.
Missouri Hope is sponsored by Northwest’s emergency and disaster management program and the Consortium for Humanitarian Service and Education.
Partner agencies include Maryville Public Safety, Nodaway and Buchanan County Emergency Management, Nodaway County Ambulance District, LifeFlight and LifeNet air ambulances, the SEMA Region H Marine Hazmat Team, and the 1-129th Field Artillery Battalion Missouri Army National Guard.
Participation is open to all Northwest students regardless of major or minor. Students do not need to sign up for academic credit in order to participate but may do so if they desire.
Those needing to register as Missouri Hope 2015 participants should email Mark Corson at [email protected].
For more information about Northwest’s emergency and disaster management program, go to www.nwmissouri.edu/socialsciences/programs/emergency.htm.
