Topic: "Cops, paramedics face grow-op and drug-lab danger"

[mariomike]

June 05, 2011
Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press
"OTTAWA - Canada's cops, firefighters and paramedics need better training on the hazards they face when inadvertently entering grow-ops and drug labs — some rigged with booby traps meant to injure or kill them.":
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n7059714

[medicineman]

June 05, 2011
Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press
"OTTAWA - Canada's cops, firefighters and paramedics need better training on the hazards they face when inadvertently entering grow-ops and drug labs — some rigged with booby traps meant to injure or kill them.":
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n7059714

That's why the DEA invented the CONTOMS course - trained tactical medics to deal with the dangers inherent in doing hits on drug operations.

MM

[mariomike]

That's why the DEA invented the CONTOMS course - trained tactical medics to deal with the dangers inherent in doing hits on drug operations.

MM

I think the concern was about "routine" 9-1-1 calls.

[medicineman]

The course teaches awareness as well as tactics, which is just as important if not more so IMO.  I guess then take that awareness training and add it to either the training in paramedic school or service specific training when a person is hired, with frequent in service training.  Knowing the area you work in is also pretty helpful too  .

MM

[Sigs Pig]

The Feds will have to bring in a grow op registry similar to the firearm registry so that they know which houses "may" contain a grow op and take appropriate measures to enter.

ME

[mariomike]

The course teaches awareness as well as tactics, which is just as important if not more so IMO.  I guess then take that awareness training and add it to either the training in paramedic school or service specific training when a person is hired, with frequent in service training.  Knowing the area you work in is also pretty helpful too  .

MM

I hope my reply to you did not come across as flippant. It was not intended to be. A dangerous situation that I never confronted or considered.

[medicineman]

I hope my reply to you did not come across as flippant. It was not intended to be. A dangerous situation that I never confronted or considered.

No it didn't - it made me realize that I actually guy looked at the article and missed that part about inadvertant discovery.  Makes awareness training of what you're going into all that more important.

MM