Rescue is approaching in the St. Johannes Gilching kindergarten

Created: 08/06/2022, 13:12

Children learn how first aid works in the St. Johannes kindergarten in Gilching.

© Kindergarten St. Johann

Gilching - Tatütata - who's coming?

It's Herr Weber, with a trailer full of knowledge and fun!

For many years, the voluntary paramedic, who was also with the voluntary fire brigade, has been coming to the St. Johannes Protestant kindergarten in Gilching.

His mission: to prepare the preschool children for an accident situation and to teach them to be calm.

So there's an injured person on the bike path, and now?

The boys and girls aged between five and seven learn how to make an emergency call and look after the injured at the scene of the accident.

You will learn the emergency number, the rescue handle and the stable side position as well as how to deal with injured people.

As a reminder, after the theory lesson and practical round, everyone receives a small first-aid set for their backpack.

The preschoolers also get an insight into who takes on which functions on an assignment and, in changing roles, learn how much fun it can be to help each other.

Major operation: vehicle, uniform and equipment

Beaming with joy and highly motivated for their first assignment, the little pre-schoolers set off on their practical journey after the theory session.

A battery-powered ambulance, two police motorcycles and two fire engines are parked in the yard.

Head of Operations Weber uniforms his students and gives instructions on the equipment: radio and trowel for the police officers, extinguishing water canisters (in summer you can use "real" water to extinguish the fire) and chainsaws for the firefighters, first-aid kits and rescue blankets for the paramedics.

Learning with lipstick and plastic tree trunks

Then the injured are placed and prepared by Josef Weber at a secret location.

Bloody injuries to the leg are marked with red lipstick and a plastic tree trunk is draped over the legs.

The rescuers are already on site at the first aid course in the St. Johannes kindergarten in Gilching.

© Kindergarten St. Johannes

The "first aiders at the scene of the accident" were allowed to show what they had previously learned in the theory lesson: ask the injured person about their well-being, tickle them if necessary, then immediately make the emergency call with 112 (memory rule: 1 mouth, 1 nose, 2 eyes) and report do where to find them.

They establish the stable lateral position and comfort the injured until the doctor arrives.

Comfort until the doctor comes

The task force that is now rolling in knows exactly what to do.

The police cordon off the road in front and behind and stand guard, the fire brigade saws the tree trunks from the legs (while the paramedics hold helmets over the faces of the injured to protect them), transports the wood with the fire engine's winch and pulls with the rescue handle the injured out of the danger zone.

Now the paramedics are allowed to do their work and take care of the injured, put on bandages and wrap them in a rescue blanket.

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“Originally I gave the usual first aid courses for children in classrooms.

But that wasn't enough for me.

So I bought vehicles and all the trappings to pass on the knowledge even better and more fun,” reports Josef Weber about his beginnings.

"Meanwhile I do this every day and supply many kindergartens in the districts of Starnberg, Bad-Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Munich and Munich City with this program.

It gives me great pleasure to teach the children the first important steps at the scene of an accident and to make "helping" palatable.

Maybe I'll even inspire one or the other to do volunteer work later."