Community First Response

08/29/2026

We've got a Tactical Emergency Trauma Care (TECC) class coming up in Orlando on September 12th in cooperation with Central Florida Mutual Aid. 5-8 pm on the evening of Saturday, September 12th.

Sign-up link is below. Address will be sent to registered attendees (32803 zip-code)

https://form.jotform.com/262306165483053

Come out to learn life-saving skills and get to know more about the good work done by Central Florida Mutual Aid!

07/23/2026

Great recap video of the July 18 event and a chance to talk a little about the program!

07/19/2026

Here are some videos and photos from the final, evening run of the Mass Casualty Exercise from July 18th.

The participants this weekend were fantastic... all really getting into their roles and adding to the immersion factor. (while some of the video looks really spicy... the tackling and wrestling you see was actually between friends!) All contributed to an exceptional day of training and a sincere thank you to everyone who helping make this such a great training day!

And a big thanks to the Central Florida Fairgrounds for working with us to secure the space for the day!

07/19/2026

More images from our Mass Casualty Training Exercise from July 18th. Fantastic day of immersive, high stress training to test life-saving skillsets.

Thanks again to the Central Florida Fairgrounds for access to the site and to all the people who came out in the heat to contribute to a terrific training day!

07/19/2026

Community First Response organized another Mass Casualty Training Exercise on Saturday, July 18th. Here are some photos and video from the first of the three exercise runs!

Great day of training and a big thanks to everyone who came out and put in so much to create an immersive, high stress mass casualty simulation to test the skills of event medical, safety and security volunteers.

And a huge thank you to the Central Florida Fairgrounds for working with us to host the training event!

03/18/2026

We've a medical care class scheduled for this Sunday, March 22.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQ1xxbJZX79Hygw_RmyfKjcU5xbfxxuLV3OnkEmTH15TS8ww/viewform

Class will be held at Ripple Hausx. If you're interested in attending... please complete the sign-up questionnaire! Address will be shared to approved registrants on Saturday.

This class runs approximately three hours and teaches life-saving intervention to help triage injuries and stabilize casualties until the arrival of higher-level care. Heavy focus on gunshot wounds and mass casualty situations, but lessons can be applied to a range of traumatic injuries.

Community First Response, a recognized training partner by the Council for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, invites you to attend an emergency trauma care class teaching life-saving skills to marginalized communities and activists at-risk of targeted violence. The class is presented in cooperation....

12/06/2025

At the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (https://www.iitsec.org/) all last week. While it's a fairly small part of the total conference, I always like to check out the medical training and equipment companies to see what cool new things are rolling out. Always appreciate getting to connect with the team from North American Rescue (NAR) and TacMed Solutions, my usual go-to providers, as well as some of the other companies developing training and simulation products.

Tac-Med solutions had their K9 wound trainer out, which is always interesting to see. Some neat new wound moulages coming out from North American Rescue and they gave me a sample of a new compound to play around with called "Field Shield". It's a hydrogel spray compound using antimicrobial silver particles to sterilize with lidocaine for local pain management. It also contains a nanopolymer that forms a thin, semi-occlusive barrier over the wound that lasts about 24-hours to help shield the injury from outside germs. Meant for wound care for lacerations, abrasions, burns, amputation sites and other painful injuries to clean, hydrate, protect and offer some local pain management to the site. Definitely going in the big aid bag.

Unfortunately, NAR didn't bring out their Virtual Patient Immersive Trainer (VPIT) AR headset this year like the past couple years. It's an insanely cool augmented reality headset overlaying wounds and AR patient stimuli and response (AR wounds, bleeding, breathing, changes to skin color) mapped on top of a basic medical mannikin with ability for trainer to make adjustments to the "patient's" AR overlaid condition based on what the student is doing on the dummy. (https://www.narescue.com/simulation/simulator-vpit-meta-sys-includes-2-headsets-tab.html)

Vcom3D was showing some AR headsets that did similar AR overlays on a dummy but I personally liked the NAR system better. Vcom3D did have an interested full VR team trainer where multiple participants were presented complex medical simulations at a next level care facility, to allow teams to learn how to work together on casualties... even when not currently geo-located together.

Lots more pretty cool training and simulation products but thought this may be of interest for the group.

11/05/2025

Great weekend of TECC classes in Augusta, GA in partnership with 50501 Augusta GA ! Really great experience and connection with GA and SC activists. Thinking we may run another series in early 2026 with Augusta’s position central to a number of large southeastern cities.

10/24/2025

Community First Response TECC Class in Augusta, GA!
Two classes being taught on Saturday, November 1st!

In partnership with 50501 Augusta!

Help spread the word if you have friends in Augusta and the surrounding areas you think might like to attend.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0545ABA92FA3F9C34-59830754-tecc #/

09/08/2025

Here are photos from the third scenario run of today's mass casualty training exercise at the Mexican Consulate.

This was the most challenging of the scenario runs with highly aggressive counter-protestors, but also the addition of a third shooter who moved unnoticed around the back of the consulate building and emerged to start opening fire at the casualty collection point, taking out four members of the medical team and the triage lead at the CCP. The shooter was neutralized by the security team but the loss of medical personnel put a major strain on response and evacuation times. I think the photos may have dropped in sequentially on this batch.

Really exceptional day of training and allowing participants to exercise skills in a high-stress, immersive simulation. Thank you so much to all who helped come out and support this training day!