Justine Frederiksen
加州UKIAH Daily Journal。
(MCT)
8月5日 - 在Ukiah彼此之间发生的两次可怕事件发生后 - 首先是7月29日在公寓大火中孕妇去世，然后几天后，一名蹒跚学步的幼儿在星期三下午（8月3日）发现了死亡- 当地的急救人员讨论了他们如何应对目睹此类悲剧的创伤。
Doug Hutchison, chief of the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority, said responding to just one of those calls would be traumatizing enough for many people, but “these back-to-back whammies have us really concerned.”
和记山说，一名UVFA船员对这两种事件做出了反应，并帮助所有人员处理他们所经历的任何情绪，他说汇报被认为包括“非常有经验的”牧师。
Cedric Crook, interim chief of the Ukiah Police Department, said his officers also responded to both incidents, and that it was one of his officers who found the deceased 1-year-old Wednesday afternoon.
当被问及官员如何应对这种恐怖时，克鲁克说：“（您）无法真正告诉人们会如何反应”，而且通常“受影响最大的人可能会隐藏它”。
When asked if that was his experience as well, Chief Hutchison said learning how to act like nothing you encountered as a firefighter or paramedic bothered you was unfortunately the standard for a long time, as he “grew up in a fire department where you just sucked it up. But now, I see the culture changing, in a good way. Now we make it clear that it’s OK to not be OK.”
“没有人应该看到这些东西”
杰夫·阿黛尔（Jeff Adair）在消防部门工作了30年后于2020年退休，他说：“我的心向那些应对这种情感创伤的反应者致敬。没有人应该看到这些东西，但是它们却被内置在某些职业中。这个想法是要认识到这些是可怕且潜在的有害事件。”
在他退休之前,阿黛尔说,他在德工作veloping strategies to help first responders cope, such as peer support teams that “foster an environment where it’s OK to be bothered by the death of a pregnant mother. Where it’s OK to talk to your co-workers about how sad you are to have been called to a dead toddler. Admitting that you are human and that you have compassion is certainly not a weakness; it is why people get into helping professions in the first place.”
Adair指出了这样的同伴支持计划，这是一步的重要第一步，从汇报开始，“包括来自不同机构的人员，他们可能都见证了一个创伤的场景，例如）消防员，执法人员，救护车医务人员和急诊室人员，关于他们看到的东西，听到的声音和所做的事情。知道您并不是唯一一个没有食欲的人或第二次猜测您提供的援助的人，这可能会有所帮助。”
Hutchison agreed that talking with peers is particularly important because, too often in the past, he said traumatized first responders would instead end up talking with someone who not only couldn’t relate, but who was “traumatized themselves just hearing about the horror we went through.”
The effect is cumulative
“The main thing is that we look out for each other, and check up on each other, including our law enforcement and EMS partners,” said UVFA Battalion Chief Justin Buckingham, who responded to both incidents, but was only technically on-duty Friday during the fire on Waugh Lane. On Wednesday, he said he responded “just to support my people. We try to support each other as much as possible, and it helps to talk about it amongst each other.”
“I would be more worried about someone who was OK after (incidents like) that,” said Hutchison, explaining that while a certain amount of compartmentalization is needed to do the job of a firefighter or law enforcement officer, you also need to recognize when you need to “decompress, take a break, call your family, or just breathe.”
和kuthison说，涉及儿童的电话往往是最令人心碎的，尤其是一旦您有了自己的孩子。他回想起与一个在家中有一个小婴儿的男人一起工作，在一次班次中，他们回应了两个小岛屿发展中国家（猝死综合症）的电话。
Hutchison说：“而且我知道他对任何人都不好，所以我说他需要回家。”他描述了一位在华盛顿州温哥华的EMS主管，他在那里度过了大部分消防职业生涯，坚持认为如果有人对死亡的回应，“他们被带走了下一个电话，以便他们可以解压缩。”
和和记说，无论您认为您已经学会了每天照顾好自己的程度，多年来多年创伤的累积效应都将不可避免地造成损失。他引用了一个人来描述这样的积累：“每次您通话时走出门时，就像您触摸了相机的镜头一样。起初，您甚至没有注意到它，但是指纹开始堆积，突然之间，您再也看不到镜头了。”
After the toddlers were found Wednesday, one dead and one suffering from being out in the heat, Hutchison said “all of the horrible kid calls I’ve been on over the years came flooding back to me. But I just tell myself, ‘OK, this is normal,’ and just take a break. And as soon as I can, I go home, hug the wife and kids, sit out on the deck, pet the dog, and just breathe.”
There’s also an app for that
For people without that family to hug or dog to pet, or for those who just prefer to get immediate help via their phone, Hutchison said the UVFA also uses the app Cordico, which can connect people immediately with resources, including someone to talk with.
Hutchison说：“这是机密的，如果我的一位工作人员寻求咨询，我不会收到通知。”
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