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Training for crisis scenarios PARAMEDIC STUDENTS PREP FOR EMERGENCY By Brooke Purves brookempurves@gmail.com “We were struck by lightning, all three of us -- worst luck in history,” said Heather Jenkins, a paramedic student who participated in a paramedic training scenario March 19, in which some students played victims and some worked the incident as though a real medical emergency. This multiple casualty incident (MCI) scenario, one of several the paramedic’s cohort participates in weekly, put the students in a position where they had more patients than they had people to care for them. “Most systems define MCI as any incident that … exceeds your resources,” said paramedic medicine professor Eric Martin. Even though the chances of encountering a situation where several people have been struck by lightning at the same time are very small, training for such an uncommon occurrence helps paramedic students learn valuable first responder skills. “The other thing that they try to get out of (the scenario) is multiple patients,” said Martin, “and that was a big part of the whole point here, is to start thinking about the fact that they … have more than one patient and they need to use their resources efficiently.”
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A woman was tied, beaten and raped at the Auburn Boulevard Subway restaurant she worked at on Tuesday, March 25. The rape suspect is her former co-worker Kenneth Anderson who was arrested in connection with the attack. Anderson’s bail is currently set at $5 million.
SUBWAY WORKER BLOODIED, RAPED EMPLOYEE BOUND, BEATEN AND RAPED WHILE WORKING AT SUBWAY NEAR ARC By Melissa Hurtado & Brooke Purves hurtadom73@gmail.com brookempurves@gmail.com
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woman was tied up, violently beaten and raped at her workplace, a Subway sandwich shop, just two miles from the American River College campus March 25. The incident occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m. inside the Subway at the intersection of Palm Avenue and Auburn Boulevard, when the victim arrived to open the store.
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RAPE SUSPECT, A FORMER ARC STUDENT, BLOGGED ABOUT HAVING TO CLEAN UP HIS CO-WORKER’S BLOOD AFTER ATTACK By Melissa Hurtado hurtadom73@gmail.com
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enneth Chandler Anderson, the man arrested in the Subway shop sexual attack, wrote on his Tumblr page about how scared and angry he was by the incident that occurred at his workplace Tuesday March 25, a crime detectives believe Anderson committed. On Anderson’s Tumblr page he described how “mind-boggled” he is by what happened at his workplace and described the condition of the store when he returned to work later in the week. “Theres blood literally all over the store from it, I even had to clean some up that the cleaning crew missed,” read his post from the day of the attack. He wrote on Tumblr about a conversation he had with a 16-year-old co-worker in which he asked her what sort of weapons and defense training she had in case anyone tried to attack her. He includes in the dialogue between them a time where he asked her if she knows martial arts,
carries a Taser, gun, pepper spray, mace or brass knuckles. The co-worker responded “no” to all his questions, and he encouraged her to carry a knife, to which she responds “I don’t think I could stab somebody.” It is unknown if this was the same co-worker who was attacked. Anderson also went into detail Kenneth Chandler Anderson about what occurred to the victim and the manner in which she was violently attacked. “My co-worker arrived at work on Tuesday
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Cyclist attacks woman on nature trail By Melissa Hurtado hurtadom73@gmail.com
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Heather Jenkins receives simulated treatment from Emily Doersch.
A woman was grabbed and threatened with a knife while walking on the Arcade Creek Nature Trail near the American River College campus at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Monday. The suspect was riding a bicycle when he grabbed the victim’s arm, pulled out a knife from his pocket and told her not to say anything. The victim screamed and alerted a nearby witness who came to
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her aid. The two then went to the campus police station to report the incident. The Los Rios Police Department crime bulletin describes the man as being a dark-skinned black male, approximately 6-foot-2 and appearing to be in his late teens to early 20s. The suspect was wearing a black head scarf, dark plaid shorts, a plain white T-shirt and athletic shoes of unknown color. He is also described as having “very white teeth.” The suspect was riding a green
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and white mountain bike that appeared to be new. The LRPD and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, who took control of the case, searched the area but were unable to find the suspect. Exactly one month ago, on March 21, another woman, a former ARC student, was jogging along that same nature trail when a man, also on a mountain bike, attempted to sexually assault her. The man punched the woman
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in the face several times, pushed her to the ground and tried to pull her pants down. The woman was able to escape and report the incident to the LRPD. Both incidents occurred around the same time of day and the description of the suspect is similar. Police are looking into the possibility it could be the same suspect. The Current will update this story as more information becomes available.
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month brings Los Rios-sponsored self-defense workshops to college students and faculty.