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Written by Robin Hixson   
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 07:00
Five-year-old Mitchell Rudy of Omaha, Neb., looked over the crowd from the fire engine’s cab, grinning from under the brim of Capt. Josh Weber’s firefighter helmet.
Visiting relatives in Louisburg on Saturday, he went along when the family attended the Miami County EMS event at McKeever’s Price Chopper grocery store, 1400 W. Amity St. With the other children, he explored the Rural Fire District No. 1 Louisburg fire trucks, the EMS ambulances, the Miami County Water Rescue Team’s boat and, later, a Life Star medical transport helicopter.

Residents dropped by throughout the afternoon, talking with emergency personnel about their equipment, eating free food and watching demonstrations.

With its rollover simulator, the Kansas Highway Patrol used a mannequin to show what happens to a person unsecured by a seat belt in a rollover accident.

“It usually takes only one or two revolutions, and it’s throwing the mannequin out of the vehicle,” said EMS event organizer John Harvey.

A crowd gathered when Louisburg firefighters demonstrated extrication techniques on a wrecked Chrysler LeBaron. Firefighter intern Autumn Town pried the driver’s door off with assistance from several firefighters. Then, firefighters Andy Keltner and Randy Heck used a special power saw to remove the car’s roof.

Tim and Erin Mullikan of Bucyrus, and their 13-month-old son, Ryan, were among those who checked out the ambulance.

“I’ve been in one of these before,” Tim said as he looked inside, explaining he’d once been transported for a football injury.

At 5 p.m., a Life Star helicopter arrived. Once the blades stopped, visitors could look inside and talk with Life Star personnel.

Harvey said EMS co-workers Mark Dozier and Shawn Simms helped him plan the Louisburg event and an event earlier that day at the Family Center Farm and Home store, 808 Baptiste Drive in Paola. Life Flight, the county’s primary air medical transport contractor, provided the helicopter for the Paola event.

Dozier, who operates 911 Barbecue catering, cooked free hamburgers and hot dogs throughout the afternoon.

Harvey said donors to the two Saturday EMS events were generous.

“In Osawatomie, there was Sonic and the Cow Palace, and in Paola we had C&G Merchants, Park Plaza, Walmart and the Family Center, who donated their parking lot. Then, here in Louisburg, Sonic donated a lot of the hamburgers, hot dogs and buns. Price Chopper donated their lot and any condiments we ran out of,” he said.

The wrecked vehicles used for the extrication demonstrations were donated by McLean’s Auto in Paola and Cutshaw’s Tow Service in Louisburg.
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