Marathon medical tent became Triage center

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The 25-year Army veteran knew right away what had happened. Having served in the Special Forces in Iraq he had heard his share of explosives and knew this was not a gas main explosion. “I had heard IEDs before, I told my wife you stay right here, you stay right with me.”

Within minutes first responders were bringing wounded, from what seemed like a war scene, into the medical tent. People of all ages with shrapnel wounds and traumatic amputations began flooding the medical tent which fast became a triage center for the 200 to 300 medical volunteers at the finish line.

“Because these explosives were full of metal and glass, people were just shredded,” said Davis, who mentioned that one of the causalities from Monday's explosions, a woman in her 20s, died in the medical tent, one of her legs completely shredded from the explosion.

“Obviously we weren't set up for something like that, it happened so fast.” The medical personnel saw approximately 50 people over the next hour and half, triaging the injured as quickly as possible.

“The good thing to tell you the truth is we had so many [medical] people there, we would triage them right away and push them out as fast as we could.”



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Thank you to the nurses and doctors that were there. They reacted. They set up a Triage and a makeshift morgue. Their powerful and quick response saved lives. I bless their spirit and their dedication to saving lives. I have heard from people there that rumors were, that the Prudential Tower had bombs planted. The tower rose over their heads, they stayed, despite the threat.

Thank you Boston.