MassPort

https://www.massport.com/media/305454/March-2015-Logan-Parking-Freeze-Inventory.pdf - list and map of most blds at Logan - [Jan 21 2018 - that URL is no good now - try this - https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.massport.com/media/305454/March-2015-Logan-Parking-Freeze-Inventory.pdf ] - try this also - https://sites.google.com/site/2015decembernew/home/ma-logan-parking-map

Sept 28 2012 - new Truck 21 arrives via the North Gate at 1242 PM (per 453.90R traffic)

Photos of fire units at FireNews.org

http://www.bostonherald.com/projects/your_tax_dollars.bg?src=Massport#page=1&results_per_page=20&order_by=&src=Massport&action=get_data&payroll_search=&department_name= - employee names and salaries - 3 Feb 2011


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3/1/2023 - posted to various Email lists and the zerg90 blog


thinking out loud - Disaster Plan for Logan Airport


10 injuries to 1 million injuries


1. dispatch all fire and ambulance units within 128 - call back off

duty staff to man extra units - get coverage from outside of 128


2. have a procedure to use off duty doctors, nurses, medics etc -

either from airport terminals or nearby hotels or nearby neighborhoods

- have them report to north staging or south staging - wand them with

a metal detector and then drive them via any available vehicles to

disaster site


3. put cordon around area - make sure no one slips thru staging areas

or over airport fences - use MSP and BPD and suburban PDs and feds


4. use medevac helos to bring MDs to scene from Worcester,

Springfield, Hartford, Portland ME, Albany NY, etc - land the helos at

Logan - have MDs set up MASH onfield - use helos to fly critical

patients to trauma centers in Springfield MA + Hartford CT + Albany NY

+ ?Nashua NH? + ?Manchester NH? + Providence RI


5. helicopters cant fly in bad weather so alternative plans are needed

- maybe commuter trains could be used - coast guard helos - any IFR

helos - medevac planes etc


6. of course all hospitals in eastern mass will be on disaster alerts

- hopefully 100 operating rooms would be available - the hard part

will be getting the patients from Logan to the hospital


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timeline


Boston has 4 or 5 trauma centers - so hypothetically 5 victims could

go directly into surgery upon arrival at the trauma centers - then

some more could go to Lahey Hospital and South Shore Hospital - and a

couple more could go to Worcester or Providence


Within one hour - hopefully 50 more operating rooms would be available

- Everett, Newton, Cambridge, Boston, Milton, etc


Also within 1 hour - medevac helos would land at logan with 5 trauma

surgeons - hopefully they could do surgery at the Logan fire station


Therefore - the triage goal for the first hour - is to send 5 to 10

critical victims to Boston area trauma centers - and - 0 to 50 less

critical patients to eastern Mass hospitals - and 5 less critical

victims via medical helicopters to out of state trauma centers


This is the best case scenario that we can see at this time


Worst case scenario might be 600 burn and trauma patients - there

might be no advantage to running any sort of triage in this case - the

only question would be 'which hospital should victims go to?" - a good

rule of thumb might be - if you are a Brockton ambulance, then you

should go to Logan and get  1 or 2 patients and take them to a

Brockton hospital - if you are a Lowell ambulance - you should get 1

or 2 patients and take them to a Lowell hospital - this will make

distribution of patients much easier


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Lets look at this another way


time 00 minutes post crash - 500 critical patients at scene

time 15 minutes post crash - 10 patients enroute to trauma centers -

490 patients at scene

time 30 minutes post crash - 40 more patients enroute to hospitals -

450 critical patients still at scene

time 45 minutes post crash - 50 more patients enroute to hospitals -

400 critical patients still at scene


Looks like 400 people are going to bleed out waiting for an ambulance

to arrive - or waiting for an operating room to open up - maybe not -

if medics can get tourniquets and IVs into 400 people in 1 hour - 1

medic can do 10 people in 1 hour - gonna need 40 medics at scene fast

- if all of Logan Fire and Logan Police were medics - that might be

possible


Interesting