Crash Course

Area Rescue Crews Host Mock School Bus Crash

Posted: August 7, 2012

Wayne Mohler (left), a city ambulance driver, and EMT Alena Noel attend to Adrian Lokey of Harrisonburg during a training exercise for rescue personnel, school and transportation officials at James Madison University on Monday. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Harrisonburg rescue workers respond to a mock scenario in which a bus collided with a pickup truck after the bus driver had chest pains.
Harrisonburg emergency workers respond to a mock school bus accident at JMU Monday afternoon.
Harrisonburg firefighters Doug Martin (left) and Jamie Rickard take a fake patient out of the school bus during a mock accident at JMU Monday afternoon.
Harrisonburg firefighters attend to the fake injuries of Isela Ramirez, 14, of Harrisonburg, during a mock school bus accident at JMU on Monday. The children involved in the exercise were volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

HARRISONBURG — About a dozen firetrucks and ambulances flooded the James Madison University Convocation Center’s parking lot Monday afternoon responding to a “school bus crash.”

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