An Augusta Tech student displays her mock
injury from a hurricane.


Another Augusta Tech student sports a mock injury.


Participants add mock injuries to students.


Victims await triage and treatment during disaster.


Additional victims wait for treatment during mock disaster.

Eighty students from Augusta Tech's three campuses participated in a community wide disaster drill at Fort Gordon coordinated by the National Disaster Management System. Students from Medical Assisting, Nursing and Respiratory Therapy served as disaster victims. Students were provided with a scenario that Hurricane Lynette had hit Savannah and victims were being evacuated to Augusta. Each student was given an injury and a mock identity. They were instructed to act out their role so that the hospitals could be judged on how prepared they are in the event of a real disaster.