Maloney Enterprises was founded in 1985 by Gene Maloney of Thousand Oaks, California. Gene has been in involved in disaster preparedness since 1980 and has attended many disaster conferences and drills that have been staged by major fire departments.
Gene had many conversations with both small and large fire departments. He then set out to develop mass casualty response systems that solved the problems he had seen at disaster drills. He also wanted it to serve the needs of both large and small departments.
This is the proven system he developed:
The problems
- Storage of the equipment and supplies. Most often they were stored in a building. If the building was destroyed in the incident then all was lost.
- How to transport to the incident site. Generally it took from 45 minutes to 4 hours to get a truck, load it and get to the scene.
- What equipment and supplies that would be needed. The tendency was to put several different sizes of bandages and dressings into a box. Since the medic has to decide which one to use over time, this caused confusion.
- How to dispense the supplies. Normally they were in boxes. This caused the medic to continually run back and forth to the supply boxes. Regular trauma kit did not work well.
- Where to maintain those patients that needed on going care. In a disaster, the hospitals may be closed down because they were effected by the disaster or over ran with incoming patients
The solutions
- Design a special trailer that was water, dust and rodent proof that could be stored away from buildings, trees, and power lines.
- Contain large quantities of medical supplies and equipment
- It must be able to be towed by any size of vehicle.
- Choose only one or two size of dressing and bandages to help eliminate confusion.
- Design a special trauma kit with clear plastic pouches so that all supplies are visible
- Build a special trailer containing the equipment and supplies for a Casualty Collection Point.
The Rescue U Mass Casualty System provides
- A safe place to store the equipment and supplies
- A rapid method of transporting the equipment & supplies to the incident
- No special truck needed to pull the trailer
- The system organizes the equipment and supplies for easy distribution
- The unit can be airlifted
- Provides standardization for mutual aid partners
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