After crawling out of a mudslide, a girl, along with a group of people, walked on a broken leg searching for help. She made it to a clinic, housed inside a tent, where one of the doctors attended to the injury and provided her with crutches. She was hungry, and so the doctor sent her to the disaster response team from Samaritan’s Purse.
The girl was Michelle de Carion, a staff writer for Samaritan’s Purse who blogged about her experience participating in one of the first disaster simulation training exercises of its scale by an international non-governmental organization. It even involved the U.S. Air Force, which tested a state-of-the-art mobile medical unit during the three-day event (Sept. 22-24) at a private estate near the NGO’s headquarters in Boone, N.C., USA. The exercise dealt with an imaginary 8.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico City.
The Christian organization, which has been helping victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine since 1970, posted updates of the exercise through Argyle Social and on Twitter. On its Facebook page, many of its more than 360,000 followers applauded the relief group for the undertaking and expressed eagerness to get involved in its work.