An
"aid station" is a designated area or facility where medical assistance, supplies, or support are provided to people in need, usually during emergencies, disasters, or sporting events.
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Through the night we set up temporary
first aid stations in soccer fields filled with thousands of people, now homeless.
During this training race, I had a friend set up my electric pump at certain
aid stations on a little table.
Teen volunteers can help maintain hiking trails, hand out water at a
marathon aid station, pull weeds at a community garden or work with young kids as a camp counselor.
Our veterinarians and staff will be positioned at pet first -
aid stations throughout the course should your furry friends need any medical attention.
Keeping a first aid kit on hand is beneficial when there is no first
aid station around to help.
By chance we started running together and when I saw her take off at the
first aid station I made sure I was right with her.
Jostled awake by early morning alarm clocks, they carpooled, rode with their families, or otherwise made their way to Chicago's Near North Side where they were among more than 250 volunteers who
worked Aid Station No. 3 at Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive.
In London hospitals and first
aid stations in France, she'll engage with the charnel house horrors of war, and becomes determined to reject the heroic myths still being peddled at home.
Participants of the project consisted of people from all walks of life including artist, educator, and social change advocate Joel Artista, Florida police officer Bobby White, West African refugee and artist Hawa Diallo, and founder of the Migrant
Offshore Aid Station Christopher Catrambone to name a few.
Fosters turn their homes into triage and
aid stations where front line casualties can recover and learn to live again.
In this ninth installment in his Bess Crawford series, A Casualty of War, the mother - son writing team known collectively as Todd has provided an authentic look at the visceral horrors of trench warfare, as they set readers down in a makeshift medical facility, or «
forward aid station,» near the front lines.
The 330 kcal / h can be consumed by bars, gels and iso drinks provided
at aid stations on course.
The migrant boat was intercepted by the NGO Migrant
Offshore Aid Station's rescue ship, and all the people onboard were evacuated.
The Brant County SPCA set up a makeshift
first aid station at the hangar and had a staff member staying with the animals at all times, Dwinnell says.
By 2006, the pain and swelling were routinely driving González to the plant's first -
aid station.
If you wish to walk at
the aid stations, walk briskly and then very gradually catch up to your group.
Renner, dazed from the concussion, saw that Kalsu was dead and picked up Beals, wounded in the blast, and started to carry him to
the aid station.
This time, in this life, she worked
the aid station deep into the night, ending her fun, relaxed day serving Coca - Cola, hugs and cheers as the moon shined its light over her family and the place they all belong.
The aid station at Mile 23 serves oysters.
«If Jordache makes jeans like it puts on marathons,» growled one thirsty runner after being unable to find
an aid station in the Pasadena race, «you should keep a needle and thread in your pocket.
They state that the first
aid station can also be used as a baby care station, when available.
Each Disney Park has a baby care center, and the one in Magic Kingdom is located on the left as you walk towards Cinderella's Castle on Main Street U.S.A. — it's beside the First
Aid Station.
The Army sent him to the Philippines to work in a medical -
aid station being set up in advance of an invasion on Japan.
With the surrender of the Japanese that August,
the aid station was used to provide care for Japanese prisoners.
While I worked in the safety of
an aid station, the young medics made daily trips into harm's way — «outside the wire» — which were often eventful.»
He's a primary care sports medicine physician at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, and
the aid station medical lead for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
While there are exceptions (like if an athlete has had Celiacs, IBS etc.) this freedom allows an endurance athlete to focus, compete, cruise into
an Aid Station or Transition, grab whatever looks good, wash it down with a swig of Coke and get back to business rather than fret over finding their drop bag and special sauce, lose focus and stress (read Cortisol response) because they are lost without it.
She said, «I would grab some water from
the aid station... and add the (electrolyte) spray after I cleared the congestion of the aid station.
Grab something from
an aid station.
At
each Aid Station there will be a designated area for Drop Bags that runners wish to have returned to the finish line for retrieval.
Throughout the race, you'll be given the opportunity to stop and quench your thirst at
the aid stations every 2.5 kms, have the opportunity to cool off under a shower post-race and enjoy the finisher's barbecue.
It's a lap race and you can do as many laps within 8 hours as you like But
the aid stations groan under the weight of cake.
This corner is called the «amygdala first
aid station» as the amygdala is the fight / flight / freeze center in the brain.
Once more of a first -
aid station, many school nurses» offices now are operating like medical clinics.
There will be pet products, food, treats, information and displays for animal lovers, a pet first
aid station, and the «Peanut Butter / Cream Cheese Challenge» (for dogs.)
There will be pet products, food (for people), treats (for dogs), information and displays for animal lovers, a pet first
aid station, and (of course) dogs.
Piedmont Hospital provides staffing for a full first -
aid station, located in the restroom hallway between Ocean Voyager and Tropical Diver.
If you would like a private location within the Aquarium, you can change / nurse your baby in either the first -
aid station or in the restrooms.
Protected by shark nets the beach also has a fully equipped first
aid station.
Royal Hotel served as a first
aid station and refuge to some of the demonstrators during the Black May demonstrations in 1992.
Downtown Raleigh ran red with the LexisNexis colors as more than 50 volunteers, dressed up in t - shirts with the design you see above, spread out across the course to assist at water points,
aid stations and other supporting activities.
Organizers must still submit a medical plan, where first
aid stations would be placed and other logistical details, Litterst said.
Remained up to date on all supplies and equipment to facilitate operating
an aid station immediately upon necessity.
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