Disaster Training
Jul. 28th, 2020 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostSorry I'm a day late with my usual posting, I was a psuedo-DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) yesterday.
DMORT is operated and sent out by FEMA during disasters or other mass death with coroners, autopsy techs, and other funeral representatives. If we have another disaster I could get called out to work mass shooting sites, natural disaster sites, et cetera. ANYWAYS. Our local morgue was stockpiled to the brim yesterday and there was a supremely low staff shortage. They called out to local funeral homes for backup, and lucky me, I have the best immune system / am the youngest in our funeral home so I was sent out.
I saw around ... 200? Bodies? Mostly covid. I worked almost 9 hours yesterday around the clock shipping out bodies, prepping bodies, locating bodies in overrun coolers, et cetera. I feel like a more sensitive person would be shocked and overwhelmed by it -- but it only left me angrier at our governor who really screwed the pooch on this whole 'deadly pandemic' situation. It was EXHAUSTING and when I got home I spent most of the day in bed watching videos debunking DIY hacks.
In better news one of my favorite artist's vinyl came in! I've been a fan of Jeff Rosenstock for a few years, and No Dream was a great album when it dropped a month or two ago. It's so PRETTY.
DMORT is operated and sent out by FEMA during disasters or other mass death with coroners, autopsy techs, and other funeral representatives. If we have another disaster I could get called out to work mass shooting sites, natural disaster sites, et cetera. ANYWAYS. Our local morgue was stockpiled to the brim yesterday and there was a supremely low staff shortage. They called out to local funeral homes for backup, and lucky me, I have the best immune system / am the youngest in our funeral home so I was sent out.
I saw around ... 200? Bodies? Mostly covid. I worked almost 9 hours yesterday around the clock shipping out bodies, prepping bodies, locating bodies in overrun coolers, et cetera. I feel like a more sensitive person would be shocked and overwhelmed by it -- but it only left me angrier at our governor who really screwed the pooch on this whole 'deadly pandemic' situation. It was EXHAUSTING and when I got home I spent most of the day in bed watching videos debunking DIY hacks.
In better news one of my favorite artist's vinyl came in! I've been a fan of Jeff Rosenstock for a few years, and No Dream was a great album when it dropped a month or two ago. It's so PRETTY.
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Date: 2020-07-28 09:54 pm (UTC)I'm happy you like it! Many things happened yesterday, and I will tell them to just you and whoever reads the comment:
-I've certified that I'm unfazeable by talking to an embalmer about Church's Chicken while he slit the carotid of a dead woman and all this putrid sludge blood came out. And I was still hungry.
-I carted around a putrefying, green, mummified guy. I had to use a lot of febreeze. The smell was in my hair.
-I cracked open a disaster pouch (a bag for jumbled up remains) with a very very sludgy and rotten guy and apparently the face I made was a mildly inconvenienced ":/" while I fished around to find his hand to see if he was wearing a ring we were looking for
-Saw someone who was purple. That's it.
I'm not working there daily. I still have my regular funeral home and my boss doesn't like lending me out. So I won't be AS exposed as many others are, but there's still a risk.
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Date: 2020-07-28 10:11 pm (UTC)Disaster. Pouch.
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Date: 2020-07-28 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-28 10:53 pm (UTC)Ziploc.
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Date: 2020-07-28 11:45 pm (UTC)