A Petersburg High School student in the ETT course uses the jaws of life on an overturned junked vehicle during the vehicle extraction exercise.
Students in Petersburg High School's new Emergency Trauma Technician course spent two days this month learning to cut into wrecked vehicles, then used those skills to free a volunteer "patient" from the cab of an overturned pickup.
The training took place Thursday, Oct. 8, and Friday, Oct. 9, at the borough baler facility at the landfill, where several junked vehicles slated to be crushed were held back for the exercise. Six ETT students and 10 students from the high school's Certified Nursing Assistant class took part, working alongside Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department firefighters.
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