It’s Offical, First responders In NYC Getting goofy training!

For years Disneyworld in Orlando Florida has been called the Happiest place on earth. Today it now is also considered the best place to train on Earth as per some NYC big-wigs. A recent trip to see the big cheese with his family led Chief Joyce From NYC’s Office of Emergency Management in charge of training NYC’s First responder’s to one conclusion, this is where NYC’s Medics, Firefighters and Police Officers should train.

After trying for 8 months NYC broke a deal with Walt Disney Executive’s to actually allow First responders to train there. Nyc will pick up the whole tab for roundtrip airfare and hotel stay as well as Park passes for 4 days for every member of NY’s Bravest( Firefighters), finest(police officers) and Best( FDNY EMS). Chief joyce had this to say ” I mean just stand on main street in the Magic Kingdom at closing, Kids are crying cause they don’t want to leave. Kids are puking cause of all the candy they ate, some complaining of Stomach pains. Parent’s Arguing , fighting after spending all day in the sun waiting on long lines, crowds of 100,000 trying to leave rushing down main street to the exit. Its pure chaos. Diabetics with elevated blood sugar from all the ice cream, tons of drunk college students stumbling down main streeet it has every type of disaster patient we would see in a attack. Hundred’s of tens of thousands running to leave simulates a stampede, the type we would see in the event of a attack Here in NYC”.

Nyc’s top first responders went to see the mayhem that unfolds at Disney’s closing time and truth be told, they were very pleased. it was the perfect kind of reactions we would see in a large scale MCI that Produced thousands of patients. While most of the action will be at closing, other “Surprise” Events are planned during the day to keep NYC’s Team on their toes. Police officers will have to deal with crowd control, Fire Fighters with hazmat containment and medics with crying, puking toddlers, intoxicated Teens and domestic fights from the parents, With all this Firefighters will train on Cinderella’s castle, a 199 foot structure with no elevator. Police will work in plain clothes to trap anyone stealing items from Disney’s Main Street stores and Medics will be treating heat strokes and other Medical Emergency’s in the day.

The Real Rescue Team will get a surprise when Pluto Mickeys dog goes berserk and attacks 50 or 60 people, then Tinker bell will have a flight malfunction and need a high angle rescue. Then BAM a Fireworks accident will unfold and this is all before closing when the real test will start, when thousands run down main street in a running of the bulls type event to exit the park at closing. That’s when the real magic begins. it’s just perfect .Even the Mayor was on board.
About 50 First responder will go per training session ,once they return another 50 will be sent until all are trained. Having all of them trained will take around 2 years and is expected to cost 44 million dollars, but is a training class that official’s say cant be passed over.

Of course Disney has some rules, first off the Team must wear regular clothing as too not alarm any park goers or cause any panic. Second All Accidents And Events will be blamed on universal studios. Since NYC is paying for admission into the theme park, the Teams will be allowed to ride all the rides. All must wear mickey Mouse ears while in the park for easy identification from park employees, a hat with mickey ears on them that makes the wearer resemble Mickey Mouse. Last but not least if they hear any park goer exclaim that universal was better the team must bring the park goer to security right away to be kicked out of Disney’s park. No one knows how well this new training class will work out and some are even calling it goofy but any training is good training NYC official’s are saying. We Look forward for resports from the field when these training classes start.